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As a self hosting afficionado, I feel like the perfect Google photo replacement doesn't exist yet. I have a synology nas and I use the synology photos app for
by nolok 2y ago
As a self hosting afficionado, I feel like the perfect Google photo replacement doesn't exist yet.
I have a synology nas and I use the synology photos app for auto uploading without loss of quality to my nas. Don't forget any picture or videos, deduplicate, figure out what you can safely delete from my phone,... All of that works great and is reliable.
The synology photos app to watch your photos though, isn't very good. Neither on mobile nor the desktop nor android TV. It's bare minimum and even that has failures.
Next cloud,... It gives a weird "I don't trust it" vibe. I want my stuff unedited unaltered, unmoved from their folder and keep your metadata elsewhere, and it just give me a wrong vibe for that. This is 100% feeling and not facts.
Immich is great but high maintenance, any update is a risk that you have way more work that planned. Their upload app need works but I use the synology one. I don't feel safe having that handle the main copies of my picture, and the dev are being super clear that I shouldn't.
Photoprism has been my go to. You need to pay for any advanced features, and unless you're solo you need them for permissions only. I love it but I feel like it's still not quite as good as I would like.
Is there any major, reliable app for that I missed?
- mcfedr 2y agoPhotoprisim Check it out, I've been very happy with that instead of Google photos.
- teruakohatu 2y agoI want to like it but it’s quasi-open source. As far as I understand, from the convoluted FAQ, paid Essentials members can’t access the source code, and they are gatekeeping some quite basic features behind Essentials membership. Reading between the lines I think it is closer to dual licensed. With extra conditions for the non-public source.
- mcfedr 2y agoAGPL for all the public code, which is most of
- remram 2y agoWhich features are you missing in the open source version?
- teruakohatu 2y agoUser roles for example. They even call the plan “essentials”.
- racked 2y agoCould you give examples of trouble you've had after updating Immich? Haven't had any myself.
- preya2k 2y agoYou missed Ente (https://ente.io https://ente.io)
- sneak 2y agoI’ve been using Ente for a month and have been loving it so far. The lack of feature parity between iOS and desktop/Electron is a bit frustrating sometimes but workable as I always have a phone and iPad nearby. I reported a bug in the desktop app and they fixed it nearly instantly. Looking forward to it receiving more polish, but it is workable in the interim. The public e2ee web gallery sharing feature is killer.
- nolok 2y agoThey don't seem to allow self hosting at all
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- hommelix 2y ago> As a self hosting afficionado, I feel like the perfect Google photo replacement doesn't exist yet. > > The synology photos app (...) > Next cloud (...) > Immich (...) > Photoprism (...) > > Is there any major, reliable app for that I missed? What about Piwigo ? They have a mobile client in F-Droid. I've not used it myself, but a friend is happy hosting his own photo gallery with it.
- nolok 2y agoI have never used it, seems interesting and I will definitely will.
- illiac786 2y agoTry Immich (pronounce “image”) in a couple of months from now. At the moment it’s in super fast development, first stable release planned for later this year, probably early 2025. The development effort looks very sustainable, FUTO is funding them a lot. I still miss editing mostly, but it’s on the roadmap.