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Re:Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done right by mceachen on Saturday October 01, 2022 @07:00PM (#33050981)
As an open source developer for more than 20 years, I agree--using proprietary software that "locks up" your work leaves you somewhat of a hostage to that app.

That's why all of PhotoStructure's metadata changes are stored using EXIF or XMP standards either within the file, or alongside in a sidecar (if you prefer). File organization is also completely customizable, and designed to work in concert with other DAMs, if desired. Details are here: https://photostructure.com/faq/system-of-record/

Also: if the business ends, the code becomes open source. Details here: https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/#if-photos...

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Re:Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done right by karolist on Sunday October 02, 2022 @11:38AM (#33056852)
This looks really nice and I think I'll try it soon in my home server. Out of interest, do you have some blog posts on the "how it's made" side of things? I see some toml files for configuration so that would point to core being written in Rust, what else? Thanks!
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Re:Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done right by mceachen on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:18PM (#33058671)
The frontend is in Vue. Both the FE and BE are in TypeScript.

Parallelism is provided by https://github.com/photostructure/batch-cluster.js/

Metadata reads and writes are via https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendored.js/

Persistence is via SQLite: https://github.com/WiseLibs/better-sqlite3

Image transforms are via Sharp: https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/

My more nerdier blog posts are tagged here: https://photostructure.com/tags/coding/

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Re:Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done right by karolist on Sunday October 02, 2022 @03:13PM (#33059192)
Thank you very much for all the links and detailed answer, I wish you all the best with this product and business.
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Re:Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done right by splitbrain on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:26AM (#33053426)
This sounds like something I always wanted. But I can't really figure out if I understand correctly from your website. So could you please clarify: when I edit the keyword of a photo in your software, will this keyword be written back into the EXIF data of the original file? If so, you just got a new paying user.
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Re:Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done right by huimang on Saturday October 01, 2022 @08:05PM (#33051357)
That's a fair compromise I think. Photostructure does look quite nice, so I'll give it a go.
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