I use pendrive
Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you considered using Signal instead of WhatsApp for secure messaging?
Why do people trust signal isn't it as black box as everything else? Or did they add reproduceable builds already?
Signal is open source: https://github.com/signalapp
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#43Google Photos with shared albums, works great for my family & friends. It used to be impossible for everyone to get all the photos after a vacation / trip / event. Now we just create a shared album and everyone upload everything. Edit: WhatsApp biggest flaw is the aggressive compression. It takes pictures down to an unacceptable qualify.
You can attach images as documents in whatsapp in which case it would just send the image unaltered.
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#44I set up a Mastodon instance and a Peertube instance on my own server and got all everyone onto Mastodon. They all get how to use Mastodon, including the seniors, so that's what most people engage with. Peertube videos can be easily embedded into toots so both pics and videos are shareable. I also have a Nextcloud instance and have all photos and videos auto uploaded, then recently Nextcloud introduced some workflow…
that's a lot of redundant unnecessary job you have done, could have sticked to something simpler, no?
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#45Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#46Google Photos with shared albums, works great for my family & friends. It used to be impossible for everyone to get all the photos after a vacation / trip / event. Now we just create a shared album and everyone upload everything. Edit: WhatsApp biggest flaw is the aggressive compression. It takes pictures down to an unacceptable qualify.
same here
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#47We use Tumblr in a custom domain + custom theme and I’m really pleased with the setup.
My wife and I can easily post from the tumblr app on our phones. Password protected site so only family can see it. Easy backups to Wordpress just in case.
It’s easy for family to check the site whenever they want rather than putting it on social media. We turned off commenting so there’s never pressure for anyone to leave a comment and we don’t have any sense of needing affirmation for every picture we put up. It’s all just there if family wants to see it. Grandparents living far away especially appreciate it.
For our own usage, it has been invaluable too. I made some theme updates so we can go back in time and look at specific months easily. It’s been a great asset of curated family photos we can go through to see the kids at different stages. They’re 7 & 4 now.
I’d be happy to share my custom Tumblr theme with anyone who’s interested.
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#48We use a private Facebook group, since most of our older relatives are on FB already. There are some privacy concerns, but frankly, the ease-of-use for us and our relatives just outweighs that.
For relatives who don't have Internet access (just one at the moment), we use NanaGram.co for sending a monthly batch of photos by mail.
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#49I'm surprised that only 2 comments mention using iCloud shared album. I myself use that too and I have no complain. Zero assistance required for elder family members.
Yeah iCloud is really nice for this.
Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
#50We use a private Facebook group, since most of our older relatives are on FB already. There are some privacy concerns, but frankly, the ease-of-use for us and our relatives just outweighs that. For relatives who don't have Internet access (just one at the moment), we use NanaGram.co for sending a monthly batch of photos by mail.
Thanks for sharing NanaGram. :)