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New to me, looks nice. But I'm a bit perplexed by the lack of functionality regarding group access. You typically want to have a place for your family to manag
by tjoff 3y ago
New to me, looks nice. But I'm a bit perplexed by the lack of functionality regarding group access.
You typically want to have a place for your family to manage your photos. A completely separate one for friends etc. Yet I don't see that usecase represented in software such like this (thinking of apps such as Immich, Ente seems quite similar). Managing your own photos is rather trivial in comparison, just need to sync your folder and 90% of the functionality is done.
And that is before the usecase of collaborating between participants on a trip. Or letting guests upload pictures for an event (such as a wedding). Such a hassle.
From the site: "Sync your library with your partner, and even designate them as an heir to your account." Nice, but not exactly it.
> "Can I share my subscription with family and friends?
You can add up to 5 family members and share your available storage space with
them at no extra cost. Each member will get their own private space, and can only
access their own photos."
Almost like it goes out of their way to not support this. Seems like such low-hanging fruit. I get that storage costs could become an issue, but in a self-hosting scenario that is not a problem.
- vishnumohandas 3y agoHey, we do support the use cases you mentioned! 1. Album collaboration: https://ente.io/blog/collaborative-albums/ https://ente.io/blog/collaborative-albums/ 2. Photo collection: https://ente.io/blog/collect-photos/ https://ente.io/blog/collect-photos/ Please let me know if I missed something. Sharing is an important feature for all of us, and we would love to get it right.
- tjoff 3y agoThat is great :) I will look into it, from a first glance collaboration seems to only be on a per album basis? Can you have nested albums? For a group of friends / family you'd probably want many tens of albums tracking different trips/events etc.
- vishnumohandas 3y agoWe don't support nested albums, yet. Thanks for sharing your use case, will figure out how to best solve for it. (Right now a "stream" of photos within a feed sounds like simpler UX than nested-albums, but will think more)
- Systemling0815 3y ago[dead]