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I'm a heavy Flickr user, with 14 years and ~200GB of data on the service right now. My usage pattern is mostly that of "convenient backup of every photo"; my ph
by jmcphers 8y ago
I'm a heavy Flickr user, with 14 years and ~200GB of data on the service right now. My usage pattern is mostly that of "convenient backup of every photo"; my phone auto-uploads to Flickr and I meticulously upload everything worth keeping from my DSLR, too.
I was once a Pro user, but after they announced 1TB for free users, I let my Pro status lapse. I'm not a pro photographer and care mostly about backing up my photos, making them convenient for me to access, and sharing them privately with friends and family. The 1TB limit gave me plenty of room for that.
At $50 a year, if you take a lot of photos, Pro seems like a no-brainer. Even the cheaper cloud storage options, like Backblaze, would charge me ~$50 a year to store my 200GB (and growing) photo library. (I'm intentionally discounting options like Glacier that don't allow me to browse full resolution photos at any time.) You also get a mobile app that makes browsing and sharing your photos easy, and tools like "Guest Pass" for making private photo links that don't require Flickr logins.
All that said, there's a large part of me that wants to get off the Flickr treadmill (every two or three years they get bought and/or change prices and limitations) and just self-host. It seems like it'd be relatively easy to make a static site generator that could be pointed at a huge pile of original photos and metadata to produce a nice-looking responsive website of galleries, but I've never seen one that didn't look like a toy. Does anyone use something like this?
- Trufa 8y agoOf course I can't say there are NONE, but seriously, it's a really lacking area. I've been on and off building one for a while but never seem to find a willing designer partner (since I can't create pretty stuff, just build it). Good luck finding one though, I hope I'll be able to help you soon.
- matthiaswh 8y agoI haven't used any of these yet to say if they meet your criteria or if they are worth using, but here are a handful of potential options that I snagged from my bookmark list. - https://photoprism.org/ https://photoprism.org/ - http://koken.me/ http://koken.me/ - https://lychee.electerious.com/ https://lychee.electerious.com/ - https://github.com/thumbsup/thumbsup https://github.com/thumbsup/thumbsup (believe this one is actually a static site generator) - https://chevereto.com/ https://chevereto.com/ - https://piwigo.org/ https://piwigo.org/
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