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It's actually the $500 pledge level that gets you feature requests! Just kidding. So there's been some conversation about sync. Nothing solid yet but a couple

by jmathai 15y ago

It's actually the $500 pledge level that gets you feature requests! Just kidding. So there's been some conversation about sync. Nothing solid yet but a couple ideas include the iCloud photostream API (iOS/OSX only and I need to familiarize myself with it), an rsync style automatic uploader, etc. There isn't an official feature request forum but feel free to open an issue on Github and include some of the specifics of what you're looking for. https://github.com/openphoto/frontend/issues https://github.com/openphoto/frontend/issues

grandalf 15y ago
Excellent. The big unsolved problems with photos are the following four: - Picasa doesn't accomodate the workflow of two parents who might both want to add/edit an album containing their child's baby pictures, each using their own google account + picasa on their own laptop. iPhoto / MobileMe doesn't even come close. - iPhoto doesn't allow for two people to collaborate on an album, each as first class citizens, and insists upon its own file storage approach which means that you can't keep two machines in sync easily. - No cloud system that I'm aware of will let me conveniently manage a library larger than my hard drive. Why not let me specify how much hard drive space I want to allocate to a picture cache and let the pics actually live on the cloud? I think that what's needed is a standard for filesystem-based storage/editing that addresses revisions, undo, etc., so that a library may be synced between two computers and all of that state is shared. I want to be able to undo a crop that someone else made, for example. And, of course, the cloud needs to just work seamlessly with it all.
- jmathai 15y ago
  That's a tall order. But full of good stuff. - Not sure if this solves the workflow problem but two (or more) people can share the same cloud storage account but maintain their own personal login information. The desktop vs. web component can be worked out later - the platform supports this. - Addressed above? - S3 lets you store as much as you want (theoretically). You pay for whatever you use. I don't believe anyone is going to have as seamless an integration as Apple does with iCloud. I think others can get "close enough" while providing other features and functionality which surpass the extreme seamlessness iCloud purports.

by jmathai 15y ago

grandalf 15y ago

Excellent. The big unsolved problems with photos are the following four: - Picasa doesn't accomodate the workflow of two parents who might both want to add/edit an album containing their child's baby pictures, each using their own google account + picasa on their own laptop. iPhoto / MobileMe doesn't even come close. - iPhoto doesn't allow for two people to collaborate on an album, each as first class citizens, and insists upon its own file storage approach which means that you can't keep two machines in sync easily. - No cloud system that I'm aware of will let me conveniently manage a library larger than my hard drive. Why not let me specify how much hard drive space I want to allocate to a picture cache and let the pics actually live on the cloud? I think that what's needed is a standard for filesystem-based storage/editing that addresses revisions, undo, etc., so that a library may be synced between two computers and all of that state is shared. I want to be able to undo a crop that someone else made, for example. And, of course, the cloud needs to just work seamlessly with it all.

jmathai 15y ago
That's a tall order. But full of good stuff. - Not sure if this solves the workflow problem but two (or more) people can share the same cloud storage account but maintain their own personal login information. The desktop vs. web component can be worked out later - the platform supports this. - Addressed above? - S3 lets you store as much as you want (theoretically). You pay for whatever you use. I don't believe anyone is going to have as seamless an integration as Apple does with iCloud. I think others can get "close enough" while providing other features and functionality which surpass the extreme seamlessness iCloud purports.