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You could switch to Synology to use their photo app: https://www.synology.com/en-global/DSM70/SynologyPhotos https://www.synology.com/en-global/DSM70/SynologyPh

by 9x39 2y ago

You could switch to Synology to use their photo app: https://www.synology.com/en-global/DSM70/SynologyPhotos https://www.synology.com/en-global/DSM70/SynologyPhotos I've seen people do the self-hosted route such as Nextcloud, and people commonly suggest Immitch, but I think these solutions are at least partially about the love to tinker and self-host first, and useful photo sharing second. It's hard to beat the Apple and Google solutions and their polish and low-friction sharing. The price/GB is superior to what I can self-host, and there's no tinkering required. How are you taking these photos in the first place? If it's iOS or Android, why not stay in those ecosystems? Being sentimental and a bit of an organizer, I've ended up as a bit of a digital archivist, and found my family actually engages and shares back more when I just use Google Photos.

OptionOfT 2y ago
Please don't buy a Synology just for that app. It is absolutely horrible. As of lately they have deferred HEIC / HEVC encoding to the devices uploading the photo/videos, because they don't want to pay for the license. Next to that the application touts itself as a backup application. When I think backup, I think matching checksums. So when you take video on an iPhone in slow motion (120/240 fps) I expect the uploaded version to be the same fps, and just played slower to give the effect of slow motion. Except the application exports the video, so you end up with a 30fps video. Imagine you backing up your PSDs with 473 layers, and the backed-up version is a flattened PNG. That is what Synology does. Do yourself a favor and get immich.
- SlightlyLeftPad 2y ago
  Immich is great and you can use a debian server to do the photo processing part while the main management app runs on synology directly. It works really well and it’s come a really long way. The only feature I’m missing from google photos right now is the bulk delete from the phone, they’re just hesitant to implement that because they don’t want to be liable for accidentally deleting the wrong photos I suppose.
- 486sx33 2y ago
  And this darn update is going to force all the holdouts who still wanted server side encoding/decoding into removing it or being vulnerable.
- climb_stealth 2y ago
  Thank you for mentioning this! That's utterly terrible. I have had a Synology for years but never got around to trying the Photos app. This makes me not want to bother trying. Personally I'm running a combination of Google Photos, Ente and syncthing. Might have a look Immich, first time I'm hearing about it.

by 9x39 2y ago

OptionOfT 2y ago

Please don't buy a Synology just for that app. It is absolutely horrible. As of lately they have deferred HEIC / HEVC encoding to the devices uploading the photo/videos, because they don't want to pay for the license. Next to that the application touts itself as a backup application. When I think backup, I think matching checksums. So when you take video on an iPhone in slow motion (120/240 fps) I expect the uploaded version to be the same fps, and just played slower to give the effect of slow motion. Except the application exports the video, so you end up with a 30fps video. Imagine you backing up your PSDs with 473 layers, and the backed-up version is a flattened PNG. That is what Synology does. Do yourself a favor and get immich.

SlightlyLeftPad 2y ago
Immich is great and you can use a debian server to do the photo processing part while the main management app runs on synology directly. It works really well and it’s come a really long way. The only feature I’m missing from google photos right now is the bulk delete from the phone, they’re just hesitant to implement that because they don’t want to be liable for accidentally deleting the wrong photos I suppose.
486sx33 2y ago
And this darn update is going to force all the holdouts who still wanted server side encoding/decoding into removing it or being vulnerable.
climb_stealth 2y ago
Thank you for mentioning this! That's utterly terrible. I have had a Synology for years but never got around to trying the Photos app. This makes me not want to bother trying. Personally I'm running a combination of Google Photos, Ente and syncthing. Might have a look Immich, first time I'm hearing about it.