Fishing for an answer: Please tell me your favorite self-hosted photo web app (or share with your friends who know one) that:
Can run in linux, docker
Supports multiple users, each with the ability to manage their own independent photos and albums.
Includes a nice slide-show feature over user-curated albums, include "smart" albums (i.e. albums created dynamically based on search criteria).
Has good metadata support (geolocation, timeline, tags, faces), including preloading metadata from EXIF tags.
Includes a smartphone app that syncs the device's camera roll.
Basically, a practical replacement for Google Photos. Any ideas?
@bradr@infosec.exchange
I run immich which does all that except native support for smart albums. There is at least one extension which supports smart albums.
Direct photo sharing with it is not amazing though, depending on how you're securing it.
The photo search is amazing though (moreso if you can pick a slightly heavier CLIP model than default https://docs.immich.app/features/searching/ )
There are packages to do every imaginable mutation of data for ingestion. Pulled my facebook save in easily.
Sync is a little glitchy on iOS.
I liked/like immich enough to pay their higher tier donation price for it.