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Photofield Part 1: Origins: Gallery Begins: The Beginning in c/selfhosted

[–] mlunar 1 points 1 month ago

Let me know if you encounter any issues! ☺️

Photofield Part 1: Origins: Gallery Begins: The Beginning in c/selfhosted

[–] mlunar 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hmm, I'm not sure I understand exactly. By default it uses each subfolder as an album / collection that you can pick on the home page. You can also configure custom collections/albums consisting of arbitrary directories. You could also configure e.g. an "all" collection with all the photos combined by listing the root directory(s). Is that what you meant?

Photofield Part 1: Origins: Gallery Begins: The Beginning in c/selfhosted

[–] mlunar 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Thanks! Do you mean explorer-like folder browsing?

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Photofield Part 1: Origins: Gallery Begins: The Beginning (lnar.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by mlunar to c/selfhosted

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Hi! I've posted on photofield here before - my self-hosted photo gallery software. There's been a bunch of changes since last time that you can check out in the CHANGELOG, but this is my first attempt to write about why I made it and how it's different! Any feedback is welcome!

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[–] mlunar 6 points 2 months ago

Als schüchterner neuer Deutscher habe ich mich nicht vertraut. Trotzdem jetzt gepostet, Danke! :)

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[–] mlunar 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Photofield v0.15.0 released: Google Photos alternative, now zoomier than ever! Plus related image search, map view, arm64, tags (alpha), and more! in c/selfhosted

[–] mlunar 1 points 10 months ago

Added as a feature request https://github.com/SmilyOrg/photofield/issues/103

Photofield v0.15.0 released: Google Photos alternative, now zoomier than ever! Plus related image search, map view, arm64, tags (alpha), and more! in c/selfhosted

[–] mlunar 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thanks!

You can run it on a subdomain, e.g. photos.mydomain.com with no special configuration, but it doesn't support subpaths, e.g. mydomain.com/gallery/

Photofield v0.15.0 released: Google Photos alternative, now zoomier than ever! Plus related image search, map view, arm64, tags (alpha), and more! in c/selfhosted

[–] mlunar 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No concrete plans for auth yet, but there's an feature request for this. I didn't really want to give a sense of false security with a half-baked solution.

For uploading, I thought about it briefly and it could be interesting. How would you expect it to work?

I imagine you would configure a sort of a target folder structure, then it would dump all uploads based in that structure? Or fully managed like GPhotos/Immich where the app hashes, dedupes and owns the files directly? 🤔

Photofield v0.15.0 released: Google Photos alternative, now zoomier than ever! Plus related image search, map view, arm64, tags (alpha), and more! in c/selfhosted

[–] mlunar 1 points 10 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.

Photofield v0.15.0 released: Google Photos alternative, now zoomier than ever! Plus related image search, map view, arm64, tags (alpha), and more! in c/selfhosted

[–] mlunar 1 points 10 months ago

Good to know, thanks for the info!

Photofield v0.15.0 released: Google Photos alternative, now zoomier than ever! Plus related image search, map view, arm64, tags (alpha), and more! in c/selfhosted

[–] mlunar 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

Photofield v0.15.0 released: Google Photos alternative, now zoomier than ever! Plus related image search, map view, arm64, tags (alpha), and more! in c/selfhosted

[–] mlunar 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Thanks!

Unfortunately I have no idea about the Unraid ecosystem, so I'm not sure what's the best way to approach that. It seems like you can run Docker images, so that's probably one way to go? Let me know if you get it to work!

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Photofield v0.15.0 released: Google Photos alternative, now zoomier than ever! Plus related image search, map view, arm64, tags (alpha), and more! (photofield.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by mlunar to c/selfhosted

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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:

New website! photofield.dev - bonus, it's embedded in every install, in fact, even the website is just hosted from the app itself. 😎
UX polish - lots of small improvements, like better interaction & fixed video controls and better error messages & autoreloading config.
Zoomier than ever - since v0.15.0 when you zoom into a photo, it zooms the whole scene! This wasn't the case for a few versions due to a technical detour, but I found a way to get it back without too many compromises.
Related image search - you can Find Similar Images now, using the same AI functionality as the semantic image search.
Map view - you can see your photos on a map. Still has some quirks, so make sure to zoom in first. To be improved.
Reverse geolocation - you can see the location of a photo in the timeline view. Completely local, using tinygpkg.
Tags (alpha) - you can tag your photos now. Quite basic for now, but should be a good foundation for things to come.
ARM Docker images - since v0.14.1 the published Docker images are multiarch - x64 and arm64, including photofield-ai. Makes it possible to run on cheaper, ARM-based servers, and faster on M1/M2/M3 Macs.

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! 🙏