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Picasa, the best image manager I have used. Nothing come close to it.


amen, I'm still limping along with it on Windows 10 but nothing else compares at all for managing your original photos. (I also use Google photos but that is a recompressed jpeg copy of your original)


I run Picasa on my Windows 7 machine, but the latency when loading DSLR JPGs is too slow. Thus the software is unusable for me.

Here's an old discussion of the slow refining behavior (to view a JPG) https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/picasa/-XPN4e...


Even if you pay for storage and upload in full quality, it re-jpegifies it?

I use Google Photos, but only the free, "high quality" uploads. I keep all the high res versions on my home server (backed up of course) and just use GP for viewing remotely, search, and its assistant features.


What did it do that Google Photos doesn't? I never tried it, but I know there are some die-hards who really miss it.


It managed a local photo library without uploading everything to the cloud.


That could be the killer feature for a new product. "It does x without uploading to the cloud!"


It would be nice to have some kind of Google-Photos-alike without the Google part. E.g. I can host on my own NAS.


Check these out:

* https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

* https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos


Would you pay for an end to end solution? Have had it at the back of my mind for a while. No Google. No Apple. No cloud. But all other features from machine learning like face and scene detection, convenient cataloguing, and probably apps across devices that'll help you store and access all of this centrally backed up on your own NAS. So would you pay for it?


Probably, maybe after a while, depending on the price. (My budget is often stretched thin.)

Less than USD 20 and a convincing web page or demo instance: immediately, without even trying it first, if for nothing else then to support a good idea.

Less than USD 50, same rules as above + convince me you are going stick around: once I have some spare cash and after trying your demo.

More than USD 100: you have to convince me.

I'll also be happy to pay reasonable amounts for feature keys etc as they become available.

I'm more hesitant to anything that stops working if I can't pay subscription for a month but in some cases like the old WhatsApp it was a no brainer because of the low cost and low friction.

Edit:

ways to mess it up even if the product is otherwise perfect:

- Windows only or Mac only (I'm primarily a Linux user.)

- Chrome only. (I always was a Firefox guy, but it is now at the point were I actively avoid Chrome)


We're slowly getting closer, https://textile.photos/ our desktop app is in a readonly state in the github builds but the mobile app is coming along quickly. Follow here for progress updates, https://github.com/textileio/textile-go, it's where the desktop app is released.


Is textile a mobile-only software? I can't really tell from the main page, there's nearly zero information on it ;)


damn, almost all your comments are advertisements


I'd have no problem with self-promotion if they were also joining the larger discussion on the state of photo managers and talking about their frustrations with Picasa/Apple Photos/etc. I mean you'd think if you're building a photo manager you have to care about them at least a little bit.


And so fast!

Thanks 'herf.




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