This is the Flickr-style photo layout that I love, but I want it in a static site generator. Does such a generator exist?
`php index.php > index.html` should work, or from your browser “Save As…” index.html
Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager
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Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager
#42I like what I see on the site and in the comments here. Im looking forward to checking this out more maybe. Im kind of surprised that as a species we dont have a conclusive ubiquitous solution to the foggy problem of digital photo storage / management. So many of my photos are just in drawers on old hard drives and phones. Anyway maybe its getting better. Or maybe Im just stupid.
I understand the risks of this approach, but I just dumped everything into google photos and I'm very happy with how it's working for now. I do not miss the days of keeping track of those devices at all.
Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager
#43I use https://sye.dk/sfpg/ myself, another single-file PHP photo gallery. It's less polished, but it's free.
There are plenty of these. This submission is notable is because it's free and polished. --- Edit --- AH, DAMN. It is NOT indeed free, at least not as demoed. The child comment below is 100% correct. It also pulls piles of stuff from cdn.jsdelivr.net and can't function without it. That's no bueno.
> the original submission is free and polished
No, it's not free. Every time you load up the page to view your own files with files.gallery, a big honkin' pop-up shows up instructing you to buy a $40 license for additional features:
Purchase a license [$39] to unlock features and support dev! - Remove this popup - Upload - Download folder - Code and text editor - Create new file - Create new folder - Rename - Delete - Duplicate file - Dedicated support - Multi-user, panorama and much more coming soon! [payment button]
The files.gallery website only hints at this restriction at the very bottom of the page in the "License" section, which devs would expect to mean an OSS license: "Files is free to use with basic features. To remove the license-popup and unlock additional features, you may purchase a license [$39] from within the app."
Now if you look at the rest of the landing page you can see it very carefully does not mention the ability to use basic file browsing features so that it's not technically a lie to present a tool that can "browse files and folders without complicated installations" that doesn't allow you to do anything more than download your own files without opening your wallet.
The dev is just another hustler.
Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager
#44I am still looking for a simple tool to deduplicate, organize, and tag all the photos I have accumulated over the years. Old laptop hard drives, old cell phones, iPhoto libraries, aperture libraries, etc. I want to dump them into a staging area, remove all dupes, and start organizing and tagging them into a folder structure.
I use regularly Shotwell to import from my camera and cellphones, and Geeqie works quite well in finding (also not exact) duplicates.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell (it doesn't require Gnome, my desktop is XFCE)
Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager
#45Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager
#46A few alternatives have already been mentioned here; yet another one: https://larsjung.de/h5ai/
My favorite one for years of sharing files.
This dev also has others cool tool. Check it out on his Github page [0]
Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager
#47The output is very polished and fast, I like it a lot.
Unfortunately it's not technically a single file as it depends on code downloaded from their server, therefore it can't be deployed locally without Internet connection.
From the forum:
"In terms of license, you don't need an internet connection. However, Files app loads it's own Javascript, CSS and several plugins from CDN (jsdelivr.com), and this requires internet. We already have a request to allow serving all assets locally (as an option), although in your case that might not be practical as this means Files app is essentially no longer a"single file", but multiple files that you need to be included with each installation (although you could assign a global path perhaps). In any case, for now it's not possible to load Files app without internet."
Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager
#48Oh boy, this may have solved one of my problems. Will try it asap!
Edit: oh, it's not free... I mean, $40 isn't bad, but then I expect a decent level of support. Also, $40 for... a year, a life?
Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager
#49I like what I see on the site and in the comments here. Im looking forward to checking this out more maybe. Im kind of surprised that as a species we dont have a conclusive ubiquitous solution to the foggy problem of digital photo storage / management. So many of my photos are just in drawers on old hard drives and phones. Anyway maybe its getting better. Or maybe Im just stupid.
The answer is simple, it's just kind of says an ugly thing about how computing has shifted; it's essentially the same reason e.g. the iPad didn't have a file manager.
Interfaces got really good and slick at the same time it became profitable/useful to alienate people from their own data for profit.
Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are plenty of these. This submission is notable is because it's free and polished. --- Edit --- AH, DAMN. It is NOT indeed free, at least not as demoed. The child comment below is 100% correct. It also pulls piles of stuff from cdn.jsdelivr.net and can't function without it. That's no bueno.
> the original submission is free and polished No, it's not free. Every time you load up the page to view your own files with files.gallery, a big honkin' pop-up shows up instructing you to buy a $40 license for additional features: Purchase a license [$39] to unlock features and support dev! - Remove this popup - Upload - Download folder - Code and text editor - Create new file - Create new folder - Rename - Delete…
... and you are correct! Edited my comment above to reflect that.
> The dev is just another hustler.
But this was really uncalled for even if this does look kinda deceiving and dark-pattern-ish.