Hey, I'm building that!
https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/
The novel random "taste" UI makes navigating even very large libraries fun and serendipitous.
There are a ton of configurable image and video filters that can prevent the exif-less screenshots and other random nose from getting imported in the first place. Hop into the discord if you need any help with setup, I'm online.
(Also, know that I've open sourced a bunch of the core functionality, but this is commercial software, albeit with a very generous "free" tier).
Personally, with things as serious as photo libraries, proprietary software is a no-go for me. I'd rather use something with community support like Lychee than pray that e.g. photostructure will be available years later.
As an open source developer for more than 20 years, I agree--using proprietary software that "locks up" your work leaves you somewhat of a hostage to that app.
That's why all of PhotoStructure's metadata changes are stored using EXIF or XMP standards either within the file, or alongside in a sidecar (if you prefer). File organization is also completely customizable, and designed to work in concert with other DAMs, if desired. Details are here: https://photostructure.com/faq/system-of-record/
Also: if the business ends, the code becomes open source. Details here: https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/#if-photos...
This looks really nice and I think I'll try it soon in my home server. Out of interest, do you have some blog posts on the "how it's made" side of things? I see some toml files for configuration so that would point to core being written in Rust, what else? Thanks!
Parallelism is provided by https://github.com/photostructure/batch-cluster.js/
Metadata reads and writes are via https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendored.js/
Persistence is via SQLite: https://github.com/WiseLibs/better-sqlite3
Image transforms are via Sharp: https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/
My more nerdier blog posts are tagged here: https://photostructure.com/tags/coding/