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Synology photos is garbage... it does do one thing ok which is backup photos. The software stack of usability is severely missing. So they have a lot of softwa

Synology photos is garbage... it does do one thing ok which is backup photos. The software stack of usability is severely missing. So they have a lot of software that kind of works, but none of it well. In that case I'd rather have the cheaper Unifi that only does storage.

saaaaaam 1y ago
Agree! Though to be clear I’m not saying it’s necessarily amazing software - just that a lot of Synology users seem to like it! I was surprised when I was on a Synology subreddit (I think, or maybe the Synology forums) looking for details about upgrading RAM how many people seem really passionate about the various synology apps.
- kstrauser 1y ago
  That surprised me, too. A while back they nerfed some feature in Video Station, their IMHO crummy Plex analog. Wow, did people ever get bent! Meanwhile, I didn’t know anyone actually used and liked it. It worked alright but the client apps were/are a giant leap behind alternatives for Plex or Jellyfin. But no, the built-in option seemed to have a league of fans in the Venn overlap of “people who want to stream video off their NAS” and “people willing to settle for an oddball solution”.
  - nathan_douglas 1y ago
    Weirdly, Audio Station is the best app I've found for streaming podcasts from my Synology (given the quirks of podcast hoarding in practice). Admittedly, I haven't looked in a few years... maybe I should get on that.
    - kstrauser 1y ago
      That seems plausible. I don't think there's as much competition among audio apps, and I (perhaps naively) suspect there might be a lower bar for UI polish. We were using XMMS back in the day, and while it looked cool, it wasn't the paragon of user-friendly design.
izacus 1y ago
Synology Photos works amazingly for me and significantly better than any alternatives I've tried.
- mlrtime 1y ago
  For what, besides backing up photos? I seriously want it to work well. How do you find 1 out of 10,000+ pictures you've taken in the last 20 years without spending hours self categorizing beforehand?
  - izacus 1y ago
    I choose location/person/timeframe and go from there.
blindriver 1y ago
I just went through a complete restore of my NAS from backup and then migration to a new NAS. It was flawlessly executed through Hyperbackup so I don't agree with you at all.
- mlrtime 1y ago
  Hyperbackup is good, but that is a core function of a NAS no? I was speaking more about apps like Photos, Videos, Surveillance, Docker, Web hosting. Things a NAS usually don't and shouldn't do.

saaaaaam 1y ago

Agree! Though to be clear I’m not saying it’s necessarily amazing software - just that a lot of Synology users seem to like it! I was surprised when I was on a Synology subreddit (I think, or maybe the Synology forums) looking for details about upgrading RAM how many people seem really passionate about the various synology apps.

kstrauser 1y ago
That surprised me, too. A while back they nerfed some feature in Video Station, their IMHO crummy Plex analog. Wow, did people ever get bent! Meanwhile, I didn’t know anyone actually used and liked it. It worked alright but the client apps were/are a giant leap behind alternatives for Plex or Jellyfin. But no, the built-in option seemed to have a league of fans in the Venn overlap of “people who want to stream video off their NAS” and “people willing to settle for an oddball solution”.
- nathan_douglas 1y ago
  Weirdly, Audio Station is the best app I've found for streaming podcasts from my Synology (given the quirks of podcast hoarding in practice). Admittedly, I haven't looked in a few years... maybe I should get on that.
  - kstrauser 1y ago
    That seems plausible. I don't think there's as much competition among audio apps, and I (perhaps naively) suspect there might be a lower bar for UI polish. We were using XMMS back in the day, and while it looked cool, it wasn't the paragon of user-friendly design.

izacus 1y ago

Synology Photos works amazingly for me and significantly better than any alternatives I've tried.

mlrtime 1y ago
For what, besides backing up photos? I seriously want it to work well. How do you find 1 out of 10,000+ pictures you've taken in the last 20 years without spending hours self categorizing beforehand?
- izacus 1y ago
  I choose location/person/timeframe and go from there.

blindriver 1y ago

I just went through a complete restore of my NAS from backup and then migration to a new NAS. It was flawlessly executed through Hyperbackup so I don't agree with you at all.

mlrtime 1y ago
Hyperbackup is good, but that is a core function of a NAS no? I was speaking more about apps like Photos, Videos, Surveillance, Docker, Web hosting. Things a NAS usually don't and shouldn't do.