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Hello internet friends!

What is the best way to share a set of photos with a select few people, while being able to add more photos over an extended period of time? Must not rely on creating an account like on iCloud.

I have my own thoughts but I am interested in other ideas!

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Jeena
Jeena
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piwigo.org/ which you can host yourself or use their hosted version which you pay for. It also has mobile apps if you need them.

Piwigo - Open source photo management software

Manage your photo library with Piwigo! Free and open source software to organize and share your photos and digital media on the web.
piwigo.org
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Jeena
Jeena
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otherwise Flickr also works with albums which can be private but shared through a special link which makes those private pictures available without an account for the people who have the link.
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Tio
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If you do not want to create an account it means they are shared publicly, or you can password protect them. But if you want to add more to the mix, then this idea sounds like a nightmare for any server admin. Imagine bots adding lots of messedup photos to your server, constantly.

Thus you either need a file sharing without account solution, like send.trom.tf/ - you add the photos/files, you put a password if you want, you share. Or by far the best is Nextcloud. files.trom.tf/ - create a quick account and add your photos, then add more, then share as you wish. If you need more storage space let me know. We extend it for those who want. All is free of course.

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Aaron Parecki
Aaron Parecki
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Creating *an* account isn't a showstopper, I just don't want people to have to create an account on an existing ecosystem that they aren't already in.
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Tio
Tio
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With Nextcloud you can give access to your photos to anyone without them having an account. They can even upload stuff to your shared folders if you allow them to. As for you, the one uploading the photos, yes you have to create an account.
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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
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#Nextcloud's new photo app is nice (the one in Nextcloud Hub 3). It is self hosted, but there's many places that will host Nextcloud for you, often for free with a limited space.
#NextCloud
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Aaron Parecki
Aaron Parecki
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I do already run a NextCloud for a few things, I might have to update it and see how the new app is
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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
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They've gone with a Google photos-like layout. I like this although it's ironic as years ago when they first released a photos app, I argued they should take this direction, but they were enamored with the "everything must be square" "crop all the things!" approach.

The new app also has object / person recognition.

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Aaron Parecki
Aaron Parecki
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I decided to try out NextCloud for this, it mostly works, but has some weird things:

• The new dashboard view is completely useless for this use case
• It's weird that I'm giving people an entire toolset just to be able to look at photos

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Aaron Parecki
Aaron Parecki
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also, the tools for managing photos are extremely limited, like not being able to adjust modification dates of photos, and not being able to choose sort order within albums
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Tim Chambers
Tim Chambers
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This could be self hosted: pixelfed.org/

And would I think completely covers all of Flickr 1.0 features at least.

@pixelfed

Pixelfed

Federated Image Sharing
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