Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

Post by ENadyr » Sat, Mar 02, 2024, 6:47 PM UTC

vishnumohandas wrote: post #209

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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

Post by upcoming-sesame » Sat, Mar 02, 2024, 6:59 PM UTC

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> It is 100% worth the extra $ if you plan on subscribing for a loong time anyway I think many people forget about this. They pay for a monthly or yearly cloud storage subscription, but forget they have to pay this amount every year for the rest of their lifes if they want to keep their data. That's why I also use a Synology disk. I also have an additional lifetime subscription at a cloud storage provider (which pays…

To be fair, the underlying storage of the synology won't last forever. A cheap SSD might reliably last five years, a nice one, about ten years, as far as I know. You also need to pay for the electricity necessary to keep your server running 24/7, if you want a service level equivalent to a cloud storage service. All this adds up. The scales will probably stay in favor of the self-hosting options, but you have to take…

Post by fifafu » Sat, Mar 02, 2024, 7:18 PM UTC

Post by afro88 » Sat, Mar 02, 2024, 7:34 PM UTC

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Does it do background sync on iOS?. There are so many alternatives to Apple Photos, all with this handicap. “Leave the app open for it to sync” Photos are the only reason I pay for the 2 TB plan on iCloud. I don’t need all the photos on device all the time. If I can _reliably_ stash them in remote servers and have a way to access them on-demand on the phone, I can take the money I give Apple and pay for the app that…

Yes, the app does iOS background sync. Many of us (I'm part of the Ente team) are avid users and have a huge photo libraries, and day-to-day, it works seamlessly. We don't need to reopen for it to sync etc. The only time one needs special care is when doing the initial import - at that time, we sometimes need to keep the app running in the foreground for the initial sync to complete. As the other commenters are menti…

Post by vishnumohandas » Sat, Mar 02, 2024, 7:39 PM UTC

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vishnumohandas wrote: post #32

Hey, 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…

Uses libsodium, so it can't be bad :) Cool app, even better now that the server code is open source !