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Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by oarsinsync » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 12:36 PM UTC

dastx wrote: post #42

sammorrowdrums wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My understanding from the reddit post was that it was forked due to the original seemingly being abandoned.

Given the last commit on ownphotos is from 2019, that seems likely and reasonable

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by oarsinsync » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 12:39 PM UTC

beilabs wrote: post #46

Can someone enlighten me on storage? Is it stored on the docker container (locally) or does it allow for storage within say Google Storage or S3, even Backblaze perhaps? I tried the demo on Firefox but I couldn't actually figure out how to upload an image to test it out. Firefox / Linux user.

https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos#first-steps-after...

Local directories (so mount whatever you want to that path) or NextCloud native integration

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by oarsinsync » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 12:41 PM UTC

compsciphd wrote: post #15

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.

That’s super for publishing photos for the web. Thus seems to be focused towards managing your entire photo collection for you, in a similar way that google photos and iCloud photos does.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by arendtio » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 12:42 PM UTC

ripvanwinkle wrote: post #3

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 use Nextcloud for many years now and for many different use-cases, but photos is not part of it. Mostly because my Nextcloud runs on a SSD and my photos are too many. In addition, I feel like the Nextcloud performance and feature set would not be able to deliver a good user-experience.

So if we are talking a just about a few hundred MB of photos, you are probably fine, but for anything larger I would recommend to consider one of the more specialized projects.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by StavrosK » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 12:43 PM UTC

arendtio wrote: post #44

There are two projects I would mention in the same spirit: - https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism - https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed While I think photoprism has a very similar scope, pixelfed has stronger emphasis on federation. The project website gives a nice overview over different providers: https://pixelfed.org/

Photoprism looks great, thanks! I've been looking for a project like this, but my biggest requirement is that it doesn't move my photos from where they are, which no project I've found can satisfy. Everything insists on moving things to its own store.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by tpxl » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 1:21 PM UTC

notretarded wrote: post #39

Can't we come up with better names than Libre{X}?

They are perfectly good names, no? Assuming you know what libre means, it tells you it's free as in beer and self-hostable, and X is, well, whatever X is.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by sammorrowdrums » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 1:32 PM UTC

oarsinsync wrote: post #51

dastx wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding from the reddit post was that it was forked due to the original seemingly being abandoned.

Given the last commit on ownphotos is from 2019, that seems likely and reasonable

At some point it might also be worth detaching the fork too in that case.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by KMnO4 » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 1:41 PM UTC

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #50

speedgoose wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's simple to use and cheap. It's like comparing Dropbox and a FTP server. Also Google Photos has a nice search feature with machine learning behind. I can search things such as "beach name of family member or "classic car" and it works.

It cannot distinguish between two black dogs (different breeds, different sizes) so if I want to filter for pictures of only one of the dogs I’m out of luck.

Does the service provided in the OP (or any other free service) distinguish between two black dogs?

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by JD557 » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 1:48 PM UTC

Looking at this project and some of the alternatives provided, they seem to be quite memory hungry. I assume this is related to the ML model.

Is there any way to run this (or one fo the alternatives) in a "Lite" mode without any ML?

I see that Photoprism has a ton of flags, but it's not obvious how those affect memory usage.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by kilroy123 » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 1:59 PM UTC

ddalex wrote: post #16

ax0ar wrote: post #2

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

My personal photo archive is 100k+ I'll test this out and report back.

I would love to hear your update. I have 80k+ and also need a solution for many pictures.