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Tangential, is this intended to be pronounced like "എന്റെ", judging by your HN handle? Stoked to run into a fellow mallu founder of a consumer product. A huge fan of how the product/business is being run.
Thank you! I've scribbled a bit about the story behind the name and the mascot here: https://ente.io/blog/ducky/
The best decision for me is still to buy synology and store everything locally on Synology photos. No subscription, expandable storage, and full privacy. It is 100% worth the extra $ if you plan on subscribing for a loong time anyway
One advantage Ente provides to a local NAS is geo redundancy. If your nas gets destroyed eg by fire or water or stolen eg by burglar or even the police your data is gone. Synology offers their convenient C2 service, but IIRC has or had some cryptographic weakness. So I hacked my own solution with rclone and some cheap cloud storage. Well, something like Ente would have been much more convenient.
Isn't this why offsite backups are important?
Synology has Hyper Backup, and as you mentioned, there's also rclone.
I personally think the biggest benefit to keeping photos as simple files (and maintaining my own offsite backups) is that I'm never at the mercy of one of the SaaS's microservices being down, features being nerfed, or a company being restructured or acquired.
I do see the "peace of mind" that an automatic photo hosting/backup service gives. :) Well, one could always use them all (maintaining file backups and paying for a service like Ente) for real user-side redundancy and convenience.
I gave the webapp and android app a quick test. It looks nice, but it is still not as smooth as google photos or similar. E.g. the photos are not preloaded fully and I still need to wait a few milliseconds to get a photo fully rendered. (Also there is some white flickering when swiping through the photos on android) I wonder how the big players do it. Of course they have a lot more manpower, but maybe the also have s…
Thanks for checking us out! We currently keep 2 versions of a photo - one the original, and the other a downscaled copy to be rendered as the thumbnail. Unlike non-e2ee providers, we cannot transcode and serve optimised images on the fly, when it's faster to downscale than serve the original image over network. What we could do is 1. Intelligently preload original photos when their thumbnails are in scope 2. Store an…
If only there was a progressive encoding which lets you get a perfectly downscaled (not blurry) version of an image by just reading parts of the file.
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…
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…
If all the applications are free software, it's obvious you can do that even if it means recompiling it (minus for iOS, sorry) — I believe it's ok if they have the option described somewhere deep in a FAQ or on-prem setup instructions.
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Thank you! I've scribbled a bit about the story behind the name and the mascot here: https://ente.io/blog/ducky/
Interesting story! How did you check for trademarks, is there a search engine?
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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.
[1]: https://www.calculator.net/permutation-and-combination-calcu...
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…
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…
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Is it possible to use this import tool for my own local files without an Ente subscription? Because I have that metadata issue with Google Photos, but unfortunately I don't have the programming skills to write a script.
Not right now, sorry! There's this tool that can fix capture times: https://github.com/mattwilson1024/google-photos-exif There are perhaps more that I'm unaware of.
However, your reply gives me pause. The website says the apps are open-source, the other comment says the server is now open-source. Does that mean there's some pluggable black-box magic that the subscription enables?
To ask another way, if I self-host the server, can't I build the desktop app, import from Google Photos and then somehow export from the self-hosted server? Maybe not as ideal as a purpose-built script? Or is this not even possible?
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Not right now, sorry! There's this tool that can fix capture times: https://github.com/mattwilson1024/google-photos-exif There are perhaps more that I'm unaware of.
Hi, I'm really intrigued by Ente and would happily pay for a subscription. I love to pay for things I can self-host, but don't have to self-host unless it comes to it. Especially when there's E2EE. However, your reply gives me pause. The website says the apps are open-source, the other comment says the server is now open-source. Does that mean there's some pluggable black-box magic that the subscription enables? To a…
So there is no black-box magic that the subscription enables. Our live, breathing production setup is available in a monorepo here[1].
> is this not even possible
This is very much possible.
I've added an updated comment here[2], thanks!
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Google Takeout downloads the images in full quality. But it splits your metadata (like capture time, geo coordinates) and places them in a separate sidecar file. This isn't an issue if you're migrating to Ente because during import the desktop app[1] will merge the metadata with their respective files. If it's for you to keep a local copy, you will unfortunately need to write some scripts. There's in fact a paid prod…
Is it possible to use this import tool for my own local files without an Ente subscription? Because I have that metadata issue with Google Photos, but unfortunately I don't have the programming skills to write a script.
Not very straight forward, but it should work :)