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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.
Are photos encrypted, both in-transit and at rest?
That's when I thought I should look for a web based solution because that would also solve acessing and managing the lib from multiple devices, and now there's this post here. I guess before making another switch I should check out other solutions too and compare their feature matrix and how well those work. With digikam I noticed that it seems to overfit once you tagged a couple hundred faces of the same person, for example, and is less likely to identify that person in new photos.
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.
If I could get that from a self-hosted option, given Google's... track record... I'd definitely be interested, though it doesn't seem this is quite there yet.
This looks and feels very promising, nice. Is there any documentation on the difference between this fork and the original project? https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos
Appears there have been a bunch of fixes. There are also 217 forks of OwnPhotos. https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos/compare/dev...LibrePhoto... I don't know if the original repo and LibrePhotos will permanently diverge (that appears to be the intention), but I like you am a bit confused at the necessity for a permanent fork and I'd like to know more too before committing to a version.
Maybe the two repo authors can come together and sync the projects since both are so closely related. Nonetheless, I hope there will be more information via a changelog or an outline with differences and intentions.
It's one of the more impressive projects I've seen to replace Google Photos so I hope there's a lot of transparency!
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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…
More info: https://docs.photoprism.org/user-guide/settings/advanced/#im...
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
Photoprism is also somewhat unique in that it uses Darktable to process RAW photos, so if you use Darktable and have it write XMP sidecars, Photoprism will be able to process the adjustments.
For more curated collections, I prefer Piwigo, as it has a mode where it converts a directory tree into an album tree. It also has pretty good sharing features. Photoprism on the other hand is horrible for pre-curated photos.
[1]: https://piwigo.org/
What's the current recommended way of getting your photos out from Google Photos? And I don't mean manually via Google Takeout (that's a dumpster fire and doesn't work most of the time) but I'd like to automate it for periodic backups. You never know when you Google Account might be killed, taking tens of years of pictures and videos with it :(
Also, I just tried google checkout, and it took about 30 seconds to schedule a google photos only every-2-months-for-a-year recurring takeout of my data. We'll see if it actually works...if it does, it isn't so bad.