What are you using as a Google photos alternative? Currently I’m using Nextcloud but I’m thinking of switching to a more dedicated solution.

I mainly need to upload photos from my device automatically, have an UI to see and classify them, albuns and sharing.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•11 months ago

    My need for online photo galleries is just to direct friends and family to see them, I don’t store photos in the cloud.

    I used to put up my photos on deviantart, I have had a gallery there for almost two decades, but lately dA has become very slow to navigate, so I built my own site, I didn’t need much, an index page linking to HTML galleries I export from digiKam.

    After a few weeks of learning, designing and testing HTML and CSS, I have a nice index page that is responsive and easy to update and customize (in limited capacity).

    This runs on a normal webhost, and is lightning quick to navigate, the galleries support browsing with the arrow keys, and just works.

    There are three annoying things about it though…

    1. To update a gallery, I need to recreate it in digiKam and upload it manually to the host.

    2. I can’t include notes with the photos.

    3. I have to edit a link in every gallery to make it be able to go back to the index page and not 404…