Hi all!

I’d like to share some slow, but steady progress I’ve made on my self-hosted personal photo gallery - a Google Photos alternative. It’s been a while since I last posted any updates - the last time was about v0.9.2 on /r/selfhosted, so it’s actually my first post here.

What’s new?

Lots of things! Here’s a quick summary:

Show me the demo

https://demo.photofield.dev/

Now hosted on Hetzner’s arm64-based CAX11 - 2 vCPUs & 4 GB of RAM - the cheapest one.

The photos are © by their authors. Since migrating to the CAX11, it only uses one size of internally pregenerated sqlite-based thumbnails, taking up roughly 4% of the disk space of originals. Support for Synology Moments thumbnails is still there, but doesn’t seem as crucial as before.

How do I try it out?

It’s very low commitment, a single executable or Docker image that you can mount with read-only access to an existing file structure, see Quick Start (also on GitHub if the website is dead).

Another one??? Why?

It’s a conspiracy to increase fragmentation and increase shareholder value of big tech companies. 😄 Jokes aside, I think there is some space for a fast, self-contained, extremely easy to deploy solution. But mainly, it’s to scratch my developer itch and I get to learn new things.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who’s been using it, contributing, and giving feedback! See also foss_photo_libraries for alternatives if this doesn’t fit your needs.

Let me know what you think and what you’d like to see next! 🙏

  • mlunar@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 months ago

    Depends on what you mean by sharing, but if you put all your photos on a local NAS and run this on it for example, then everyone with access to it would be able to see them through a browser.

    There’s no explicit sharing feature though.

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      8 months ago

      No I meant putting it on a vps and giving family members login access so they can all save their photos and share within the network

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        8 months ago

        Ah, I see! This is more of a solution for viewing existing photos, it’s not a fully fledged multi-user photo management solution.

        If you had family members access and share photos via a file share though, you could use this to set up a common gallery that everyone could access via the browser.

        It’s mostly meant to run on a local NAS though.