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These are all similar things that Gallery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_Project) promised (not the same f
by muppetman 3y ago
These are all similar things that Gallery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_Project) promised (not the same features because location for example wasn't a thing). And delivered on for a great number of years, really well. It seemed like the future of image hosting. And then it slowly trailed off, v3 of Gallery did get released but to a lukewarm reception (the old plugins/addons didn't work and the cloud was just starting to take over) and then yea, it just died.
I have my gallery still online these days, with a fork so that PHP8 still works with it, but I've had to hide it behind an IP Access list now because I don't trust it being public facing anymore.
I don't mean to shit on this project, I hope it's massively successful. We need more awesome open source apps like this.
But I've been burnt once already pouring my heart and soul into an open source image gallery so I'm not going to do it again.
In hindsight I wish I'd put all my photos in Flickr (I thought I was being so clever using Gallery) because it's stood the test of time that Gallery didn't. These days I use Google Photos, I can't see it going away anytime soon (though of course it's Google so who knows)
Sorry this rant is probably very offtopic. The product itself looks amazing and I DO hope it achieves the success that Gallery couldn't.