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Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
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Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
no, takeout gives you the full quality. All other ways of accessing your photos from the api (there is some github projects) don't give you the full quality images though. But with takeout the problem is that all dates and metadata gets messed up. I had to learn this the hard way. There is some tools that somehow correct the dates. But it's not perfect and I wouldn't really want my photos to be locked up like that. W…
Takeout fails if you have too many files. I had to takeout few albums at a time which is a PITA. OneDrive ceased to be a good backup alternative when they stripped GPS from all my photos 1-2 years ago. Unlike Google, there's no way to recover original files. They simply destroyed them.
> OneDrive ceased to be a good backup alternative when they stripped GPS from all my photos 1-2 years ago.
This is scary. Isn't OneDrive supposed to keep files bit-identical? Or were you using their iOS/Android apps to back up photos, and some bug caused the photos to be backed up without their metadata?
Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
#203Hey, Ente's CEO here. We had opensourced our server[1] yesterday, which is perhaps why we are on the front page. Stoked to be here Ente had launched on HN[2] a while ago and has been sustainably growing since. We took the feedback from our Show HN seriously and have since - undergone a cryptography audit [3] - published our replication strategy [4] - added requested features (family plans, collaborative albums and li…
IMHO your marketing (incl. the title of this HN post) should more heavily emphasize that this has a native mobile app available in App Stores, that talks to this self-hosted server. There are many other private photo-hosting systems, but most of them are web-only — very few have a good, comfortable native mobile UI that you'd actually want to use! See also: the directory https://github.com/relink2013/Awesome-Self-hos…
This is exciting, I've been looking/hoping for something like this for a while but all the options I've come across so far were lackluster.
I have just tried setting it up with the iOS and Windows apps, I do not see an option to point it to a self-hosted server at all, am I missing something?
Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
#204The UI looks great. Couldn't find any info about self hosting but I did find a feature request in GitHub Issues [1]. I guess I'll stick with Immich [2] for now. Edit: Found a Reddit AMA [3] from the CEO and I'm happy to know that self hosting is a goal in the long run. [1] https://github.com/ente-io/ente/issues/141 [2] https://immich.app/ [3] https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/116fx9v/ama_im_vi...
They today open sourced their server which can now be selfhosted https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server/
It's not clear from downloading the mobile app how one would point it to the self-hosted server.
I would gladly pay $10-20/mo for Ente apps to use my own backend. Unfortunately I have around 8TB of photos so paying for a storage plan is out of the question.
Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
#205Hey, Ente's CEO here. We had opensourced our server[1] yesterday, which is perhaps why we are on the front page. Stoked to be here Ente had launched on HN[2] a while ago and has been sustainably growing since. We took the feedback from our Show HN seriously and have since - undergone a cryptography audit [3] - published our replication strategy [4] - added requested features (family plans, collaborative albums and li…
Unrelated but there’s a retired Warcraft 3 pro called Ente: https://liquipedia.net/warcraft/EnTe
I suspect that every pronounceable combination of four Latin letters, and a number of unpronounceable ones, has been used as a moniker in the past, often multiple times.
Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
They today open sourced their server which can now be selfhosted https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server/
It's not clear from downloading the mobile app how one would point it to the self-hosted server. I would gladly pay $10-20/mo for Ente apps to use my own backend. Unfortunately I have around 8TB of photos so paying for a storage plan is out of the question.
This is my question. I don’t actually see any statements from the company here or in the post that you can actually self-host and point the app at your server. The app dumps you in a mandatory sign-up flow with no server url setting possible.
It seems more likely this is only open source for audit/transparency purposes.
It’s absolutely their right to do this, but they should make it clear.
Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
They today open sourced their server which can now be selfhosted https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server/
It's not clear from downloading the mobile app how one would point it to the self-hosted server. I would gladly pay $10-20/mo for Ente apps to use my own backend. Unfortunately I have around 8TB of photos so paying for a storage plan is out of the question.
This is currently only supported via build flags.
Addition of an option in-app is being discussed @ https://github.com/ente-io/ente/discussions/504
Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMHO your marketing (incl. the title of this HN post) should more heavily emphasize that this has a native mobile app available in App Stores, that talks to this self-hosted server. There are many other private photo-hosting systems, but most of them are web-only — very few have a good, comfortable native mobile UI that you'd actually want to use! See also: the directory https://github.com/relink2013/Awesome-Self-hos…
This is exciting, I've been looking/hoping for something like this for a while but all the options I've come across so far were lackluster. I have just tried setting it up with the iOS and Windows apps, I do not see an option to point it to a self-hosted server at all, am I missing something?
The server was open sourced just yesterday, wasn't planning to show HN this soon, but here we are :)
We've a discussion to add an option in-app to configure the endpoint @ https://github.com/ente-io/ente/discussions/504
Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
#210Ente Auth https://auth.ente.io/ was my go to choice for migrating from Authy. It supports importing and exporting (so no dead end unlike Authy) and I can see the second factor on my desktop without reaching my phone (through Ente Auth website). I've exported from a rooted phone from Authy->Aegis->Ente Auth. I have no need for their main product but they are building amazing software!
oooh this is interesting - I'd like to self host this...
probably better to look into this project? https://github.com/Bubka/2FAuth