Re:Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone
by Terretta on Friday May 17, 2024 @07:21AM
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7.- A method to proactively decrease quality of all images to save storage, and delete all images if you don't look at them for 2 years or have too many.
Re:Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone
by niknetniko on Saturday May 18, 2024 @04:44PM
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I don't get what this means?
- There an option to compress images before uploading (which is probably on by default). Not unreasonable.
- Content is deleted if you do not access Google Photos in any way during two years AND do not have a paid storage plan. Not unreasonable.
- If you use more storage than you pay for during two years, content will be deleted. Again, not unreasonable.
I really do no get the complaint here.
Re:Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone
by Rygian on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @08:16AM
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I upload my pictures with quality q=X.
The next day I download a picture. Quality is q=Y, where Y < X.
One year after, I download the same picture. Quality is q=Z, where Z < Y < X.
So my pictures uploaded to Google Photos suffer from decay, whenever Google chooses to degrade quality.
None of your "not unreasonable" scenarios are involved.
Here the challenge is to actually understand what "Google Photos" is before claiming that this is a Clone.
In order to successfully clone Google Photos, one needs:
1.- A backing storage.
2.- A web application.
3.- A mobile application (and optionally a desktop application).
4.- A data synchronization model to maintain a 2-way sync between backing storage and each locally installed application.
5.- A data model of pictures, timeline, and albums, that does not depend on where the picture is physically stored (for example, I can create an album on my phone offline, and whenever I come online the sync happens and the same album appears on the web application view).
6.- AI features (eg. face detection) sprinkled on top of the backing storage, and available on both web application and locally installed applications.
From a cursory review, this current attempt only satisfies 1 and 2.