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There seem to be lots of alternatives out there (Nextcloud, Piwigo, ...) but I'd love to hear about recommendations and experiences.
It was way ahead of it's time, and actually worked!
Best of all, it did everything locally... not cloud based and thus retained privacy of your personal photo collection.
Nextcloud photos is not a photo application. It's basically a shared gallery with thumbnails. There's no metadata support or editing. No true multiuser access other than granting sharing through Nextcloud like Dropbox. The only good part is you can autoupload from your phone.
I've looked at several webapps, like Piwigo. Most of them feel like a single user application or have limited upload and metadata support.
The closest I have found is Digikam using external SQL, but this requires a local application carefully configured with a DB and a fileshare.
It looks pretty good, has multi-user capability, metadata editing, etc. It would be nice if it had some geotagging integration and ability to group albums into sets.
I filed a bug report and the developers/maintainers fixed it very quickly.