What does HackerNews think of photoview?
Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers
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I once tried PhotoView, not sure it has the features you ask for but it is a self-hosted photo "viewer" I guess ? Setup is easy using their podman image).
I looked at a bunch of these 2 years ago and ended up using PhotoView for a private gallery. It had the right mix of simplicity and features, and I was actually able to get it running.
Self-host and use Photoview [1], it has face recognition. I use this since 2 years with 5TB of photos (on ZFS) and it works flawlessly. It is worth it - everything under your control and you decide when to migrate. My phone's photos are also uploaded automatically to a Nextcloud folder, which is read-mounted to Photoview and scanned automatically.
I considered Lychee but went for Photoview [1] for internal exploration of my photos [1], which follows the 4-facets principle (who, what, when, where). There's a map (where), an album view (what), face recognition (who), and a timeline (when). All of these make it pretty convenient for different purposes. It is also folder-based and I set it up in read-only mode, so Photoview doesn't modify my files or structures.
There is another interesting project. It's more of a lightweight and simple photo gallery.
- https://photoview.github.io
- https://github.com/photoview/photoview