Ask HN: Best Cloud-based, private photo storage option for sharing with family?

[auslegung]

In light of Apple’s recent decisions[0], I’ll be moving all my photos out of iCloud. I want a completely private way of sharing photo albums with family/friends. And to backup my photos. Recommendations?

[0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life

[mceachen]

There are _tons_ of self-hosted image organizers. Most are abandoned or cancelled after a year or two either when the VC money runs out, or the open source developer grows weary of toxic users. Most are fine with managing a hundred or even a couple thousand images, but then crap out with larger libraries. I couldn't find one that would clean up the mess I had from crashed or cancelled software that squirreled originals into proprietary folder hierarchies, downsampled originals and deleted chunks of metadata, with dupes strewn everywhere, so I built it.

PhotoStructure runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, and docker. PhotoStructure libraries are portable across OSes and machines, and optionally stores your originals in a configurable datestamped folder hierarchy. It has excellent image and video deduplication and robust metadata extraction (because my own library need it), and a friendly web-based, mobile-friendly UI. The beta is free to try in exchange for your feedback!

https://photostructure.com/why/

[ggm]

Monument2. Nicely done pi-like sbc which takes m2 SSD and runs an image archive. I'm a backer, it's just in release now. Comes with reasonable tagging, ML and classification, as well as phone app

[wizzerking]

I work for a company called forever.com The first 5 gig of storage is free, so you can try it out. There is a friends and family option on folders, so you can share

[_lz4k]

I recall there are self-hosting solutions talked about an another thread. I will link if I can find it.

[PaulHoule]

Like family logs in with a password?

[auslegung → PaulHoule]

I’d prefer not, I’d prefer an experience similar to Google photos or iCloud if possible. Well I guess it depends on what you mean actually because those services require the family to log in…