Synology is .. ok. They have working photo app and meh albums. But they keep pushing to make an account and log in into the cloud (since about 2 years I think),

Synology is .. ok. They have working photo app and meh albums. But they keep pushing to make an account and log in into the cloud (since about 2 years I think), so their trajectory is not great. I think points you rise are not that hard to solve with OS stack, to me the difficult part is the ease of sharing photos with others. People like familiar interfaces, adding photos to their own albums etc. Their experience of viewing your photos will never be that great, even when you have a decent uplink.