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I've been looking for a solution to this for a while. How can I let my friends and family stay connected with photos videos & related metadata, but retain secur

by jdhawk 8y ago

I've been looking for a solution to this for a while. How can I let my friends and family stay connected with photos videos & related metadata, but retain security and ownership? I thought NextCloud might be a good solution, but I'm still searching.

aheckler 8y ago
One of my coworkers wrote a blog post on how he used WordPress to do this: https://chrishardie.com/2017/03/wordpress-private-website/ https://chrishardie.com/2017/03/wordpress-private-website/
amerkhalid 8y ago
Same here. I am continuously searching for such solution. Previously, I used self-hosted WordPress blog for sharing photos, password protection was great but got tired of administering stuff. Also I wanted to backup my photos on VPS, so I was uploading full-resolution photos which of course, was not very price efficient for backup. Then I switched to SmugMug with unlimited space. This was great because I can upload photos directly from Lightroom Classic 6.0. Photos stay synced. And easy automatic backup but photos are slightly compressed when you upload via LR plugin. Now I have "upgraded" to Lightroom CC, it comes with 1TB of storage. Your photos/videos are available on laptop, phone, and web. It comes with Adobe Portfolio which you can use to share. You can share privately too but I haven't tested that. However, it is not a true backup service, if you accidentally delete a photo on phone, it is gone everywhere. And there is no recycle bin. So I keep local copies and run a cron job to copy them to NAS. So this is not a self-hosted decentralized solution but it seems to be best option so far.
- jdhawk 8y ago
  The critical piece is running a stand-alone environment that has low friction for the users - my family. I want my Significant other to be able to post as easily as Facebook. My parents to browse easily on their devices, and uploading pictures from my phone to be Facebook Simple. Mastodon is pretty close to having all of this if you turn off Federation, other than not being able to run a fully private node. You can still access public pages for users. On my list to check out are: HumHub & Hubzilla.

by jdhawk 8y ago

aheckler 8y ago

One of my coworkers wrote a blog post on how he used WordPress to do this: https://chrishardie.com/2017/03/wordpress-private-website/ https://chrishardie.com/2017/03/wordpress-private-website/

amerkhalid 8y ago

Same here. I am continuously searching for such solution. Previously, I used self-hosted WordPress blog for sharing photos, password protection was great but got tired of administering stuff. Also I wanted to backup my photos on VPS, so I was uploading full-resolution photos which of course, was not very price efficient for backup. Then I switched to SmugMug with unlimited space. This was great because I can upload photos directly from Lightroom Classic 6.0. Photos stay synced. And easy automatic backup but photos are slightly compressed when you upload via LR plugin. Now I have "upgraded" to Lightroom CC, it comes with 1TB of storage. Your photos/videos are available on laptop, phone, and web. It comes with Adobe Portfolio which you can use to share. You can share privately too but I haven't tested that. However, it is not a true backup service, if you accidentally delete a photo on phone, it is gone everywhere. And there is no recycle bin. So I keep local copies and run a cron job to copy them to NAS. So this is not a self-hosted decentralized solution but it seems to be best option so far.

jdhawk 8y ago
The critical piece is running a stand-alone environment that has low friction for the users - my family. I want my Significant other to be able to post as easily as Facebook. My parents to browse easily on their devices, and uploading pictures from my phone to be Facebook Simple. Mastodon is pretty close to having all of this if you turn off Federation, other than not being able to run a fully private node. You can still access public pages for users. On my list to check out are: HumHub & Hubzilla.