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please recommend a simple selfhosted photo gallery (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 day ago by hexagonwin@lemmy.today to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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hi. i'm looking for an extremely simple selfhosted photo gallery software. i have photos from my laptop, a camera, and my phone. they are all rsync'ed onto my server. so on the server I have ~/Pictures/Laptop ~/Pictures/Camera ~/Pictures/Phone filled with JPEG/PNG/HEICs and no subdirectories.

i want to view photos from all three directories on a single timeline/feed, from the web (and if possible, via a mobile app). currently I VNC onto the server to run XnView and check each directory and this is a terrible user experience especially on a phone.

i don't want to run a separate database or anything complex, so things like Immich or Photoprism are not an option. would be nice to be able to assign a tag to some images ("work", "computer", ...) but it's not a necessity. and i don't need the ability to edit/remove images from the gallery.

i've considered rolling my own solution but thought there might be something already available.

thanks!

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[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like this is a case of not wanting to do the "difficult" thing because it sounds difficult when really avoiding the "difficult" thing is more difficult than just doing the "difficult" thing.

I was replacing the power steering rack on my P2 Volvo XC70 recently. I really didn't want to drop the subframe because that sounded like a lot of work. Eventually I realized dropping the subframe was the easier way to get the power steering rack out and, in the end, it was way easier to just drop the subframe. It was like 10 more bolts and wasn't that hard to put back. In this analogy, Immich is dropping the subframe, just do it.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

no, it's more about that i don't want a separate linux installation on my freebsd server, all with its meaningless attack surfaces and such. i want something lightweight, and i specifically mentioned immich isn't what i want in the OP. yet you folks are all downvoting and trying to persuade me to try that. no, i'm not using that.

after hearing it a few times i've tried it before and it's not what i want. even ignoring the server part i hate that clunky google photos ripoff web interface.