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LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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I wonder how this will perform when you have tens or hundreds of thousands of photos.

There was a fantastic article by one of the frontend engineers at Google about how they built the UI for photos to be scalable: https://medium.com/google-design/google-photos-45b714dfbed1

There's no reason why the lessons learnt here couldn't be incorporated into an OS project.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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I am looking for a solution like this, can folks with experience comment on their experience with this(LibrePhotos) NextCloud or alternatives. Aspects that I think are important include the community of maintainers in addition to the current state of functionality

I love my home nextcloud instance. Came for the Dropbox replacement, stayed for solid apps on android/IOS, Notes, 360 image viewer, good sharing, face ID, and extension ecosystem. I back up to Azure Blob, but there's nothing quite like having 10TB available on all your devices on a gigabit line at home. Also I really notice the absence of the creeping sense of unease I had when keeping all my everything on Google.

Maintenance has been zero, aside from when I want to add functionality.

My only feature gripe is that gPhotos has a wonderful "archive photos" feature to delete local copies of media already uploaded. You can still see uploaded photos (thumbnails stay local) and any interaction with them stays "as if local", there's just a delay while it downloads a temporary copy. I wish nextcloud had this capability.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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I used to use apache-gallery (apache perl module that would turn directories of photos in galleries with thumbnails and different sized photos to view) and had it setup that each user on my machine could drop photos into their ~/gallery dir it would automatically turn them into galleries with little fuss or muss.

while this seems more featurefull, I wonder if I'd use them.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've used Nextcloud. Auto-upload from your phone is nice, but I haven't found a way to share arbitrary groups of photos except by copying them into a folder and sharing the folder. Also, thumbnail generation is slow and I haven't put in the time to try to speed it up. I haven't used PhotoPrism, but wanted to toss it out there as an alternative.

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/previewgenerator This builds the thumbnails in the background. I think it used to get triggered on upload but says it needs a cronjob now. Works OK on a folder of 40GB of photos. What I still find irritating about photos in nextcloud is I keep mine in high resolution but nextcloud won't downscale them to fit the viewing device screen, so I use 20mb a photo with all the UX impairment on…

> fullscreen versions and offered a "view in full resolution" button.

Yes, I have no idea what they don't do this. This makes the gallery barely usable.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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I wonder what the purpose of such tools is. Archiving? Safe storage? Offering stock-photos for sale? Or just dropping an uncurated pile images into the interwebs?

When publising curated photo-sets myself (https://notabug.org/mro/Photos2Atom and rather sacrifice features but long-term robustness and installability.

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