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Very useful, thanks for sharing Fidel! Just to note that this guide is Linux focused but most of the tools, except Geeqie, are also available for Windows (and m

Very useful, thanks for sharing Fidel! Just to note that this guide is Linux focused but most of the tools, except Geeqie, are also available for Windows (and macOS of course). He's also covering replication/synchronization with the excellent Syncthing (+1 vote from my side) as well as backup with Wasabi (being cheaper than Backblaze). And to top it of, here is what he states about an online viewer: "I am currently working on creating a web gallery software that will give access to my full photography collection and allow navigating it...I will release the software as open source when its basic features are working, so stay tuned!"

fidelramos 5y ago
Glad you liked it! About the web gallery project, this being Hacker News I would like to give some more details about it: I have implemented a React frontend and FastAPI backend, navigating through the albums and photos already work, but thumbnails won't display because Digikam uses PGF image format [0]. PGF images are great for thumbnails because images load progressivel and can be quickly rendered at different sizes, but they are not supported natively by web browsers. I'm going to try compiling libpgf [1] to WASM so the frontend will be able to display the Digikam thumbnails directly (and allow for on-the-fly thumbnail resizing!), otherwise I will need to handle the conversion in backend. Once thumbnails work I will deploy it on my home server, dogfood it for a while, polish a few things and release it. Of course Hacker News will get an announcement. [0] https://www.libpgf.org/ https://www.libpgf.org/ [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpgf/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpgf/