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Re:Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative by derefr on Saturday March 02, 2024 @11:55AM (#39573807)
IMHO your marketing (incl. the title of this HN post) should more heavily emphasize that this has a native mobile app available in App Stores, that talks to this self-hosted server. There are many other private photo-hosting systems, but most of them are web-only — very few have a good, comfortable native mobile UI that you'd actually want to use!

See also: the directory https://github.com/relink2013/Awesome-Self-hosting-for-the-w..., that collects "self-hostable services with native mobile app clients." This project should be on there! (Right now, the only entries in the Photos category are two [closed-source!] Synology offerings, and one other app that's not E2E-encrypted. You're better than these — go claim your crown.)

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Re:Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative by ENadyr on Saturday March 02, 2024 @01:08PM (#39574415)
This is exciting, I've been looking/hoping for something like this for a while but all the options I've come across so far were lackluster. I have just tried setting it up with the iOS and Windows apps, I do not see an option to point it to a self-hosted server at all, am I missing something?
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Re:Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative by vishnumohandas on Saturday March 02, 2024 @01:34PM (#39574675)
The server was open sourced just yesterday, wasn't planning to show HN this soon, but here we are :)

We've a discussion to add an option in-app to configure the endpoint @ https://github.com/ente-io/ente/discussions/504

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Re:Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative by ENadyr on Saturday March 02, 2024 @01:47PM (#39574816)
I understand :) Must be exciting to get such a strong and (largely) positive community response! Subscribed to the FR updates and am eager to try this out!
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Re:Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative by necovek on Saturday March 02, 2024 @06:09PM (#39576654)
I am not sure they want to heavily stress that in their marketing materials: they still want people to subscribe to their service, right?

If all the applications are free software, it's obvious you can do that even if it means recompiling it (minus for iOS, sorry) — I believe it's ok if they have the option described somewhere deep in a FAQ or on-prem setup instructions.

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Re:Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative by akho on Saturday March 02, 2024 @06:28PM (#39576793)
The last commit to that directory was 5 years ago. I don't think it's useful.
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Re:Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative by derefr on Sunday March 03, 2024 @01:49PM (#39583226)
Alright, maybe they shouldn't bother trying to get listed on there.

But the very fact that the best directory for this kind of thing that I could find, is so spartan and unmaintained, tells you a lot about how rare this combination of features is.

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Re:Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative by vishnumohandas on Sunday March 03, 2024 @02:26PM (#39583588)
This[1] seems like a well maintained repo.

And thank you for the pointers, we'll try to get ourselves added here :)

[1]: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

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Re:Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative by derefr on Sunday March 03, 2024 @05:19PM (#39585077)
It's a fine directory, but it's not a directory for the specific constraint we're talking about here — self-hosted services with mobile apps. It's just a list of self-hosted services — most of which don't have mobile-apps. (And the directory makes no note of whether or not any given offering has a mobile app.)
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