Lychee
Infrastructure
self-hosted photo management
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
16 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 36 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.
Design: 7 for, 2 againstIdea: 7 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Lightweight, clean code
From 1 comment
I like it very much; both the code and interface seem clean and lightweight. You should use mysqli prepared statements though, after a quick glance over the code I can't quite…
roeme on HN
Objections
Web root upload folders require 777 permissions
From 2 comments
> "Change the permissions of uploads/ and php/ to 777, including all subfolders" > https://github.com/electerious/Lychee/blob/master/docs/md/In... I don't think this is ok
__herson__ on HNThat bothers me. That should never be necessary. It looks like they intend everything to be in the webroot, which is a problem in and of itself. Setting everything in the uploads…
krapp on HN
SQL injection risk from escaping-only approach
From 1 comment
Having read your code and quickly brushing up the little bits of PHP knowledge from years ago, I'd say it helps only a little. mysqli_real_escape_string alone doesn't protect you…
roeme on HN
Animated transitions are distracting
From 1 comment
Animated transitions are really distracting, I hope there's a way to turn this off (and it should be turned off by default..)
flowless on HN
Requests
Lightroom sync plugin
From 3 comments
Private albums with a random access token in the url would be awesome (instead of passwords). On a side note, I'd donate 100 bucks for a Lightroom Sync Plugin any minute.
marban on HNLightroom Plugin would be fantastic, I agree.
jagermo on HNBased on playing with the demo, I'd move to this in a heartbeat if there was a Lightroom sync plugin. (and would donate!)
pidg on HN
Multi-select of photos
From 1 comment
Tip: You can right-click on single images/albums to rename, move or star them. By now, it may be easier to upload photos directly into the album of your choice. Multi-select is…
electerious on HN
Serve files from a directory without upload
From 2 comments
It would be so great if it could simple serve files from a directory (without in-app upload). Then I could simply sync the photos using btsync (or anything else).
sz4kerto on HNgood job! I like the simplistic and elegant interface. Like what other commenters said, it would be great if it can serve files directly instead of having to upload through the…
myang on HN
Private albums with access tokens
From 1 comment
Private albums with a random access token in the url would be awesome (instead of passwords). On a side note, I'd donate 100 bucks for a Lightroom Sync Plugin any minute.
marban on HN
Tags, comments and RSS feeds
From 2 comments
This is so smooth. Wow. It's been a while since I saw something labelled as "stunning" actually stun me. The ability to tag photos and a commenting system would make it just…
PavlovsCat on HNTags and RSS feeds for albums are already planned.
electerious on HN
Questions
RAW file support
From 1 comment
This looks really good. A couple questions: 1) Is there any kind of RAW file support? 2) Does the software de-duplicate uploaded images?
mschaef on HN
Deduplication of uploads
From 1 comment
This looks really good. A couple questions: 1) Is there any kind of RAW file support? 2) Does the software de-duplicate uploaded images?
mschaef on HN
Preloading next image
From 1 comment
Nice. A few questions (I might add more, just using the demo) 1. How does it deal with mixed landscape and portrait images? 2. Is preloading the next image possible? 3.…
nodata on HN
Video support
From 1 comment
Awesome. Certainly one of the most elegants solutions. Any plans to add video support?
thor545 on HN
Alternatives named
Koken
From 1 comment
Koken might be an other alternative. http://koken.me
north on HN
Menalto Gallery
From 2 comments
Menalto Gallery is fairly good. I used it for years actually, and I think it's the most feature rich gallery app out there. http://galleryproject.org/
ytjohn on HNFor years and years, I used Gallery/Gallery2 to self-host photos, but more and more, I found myself taking photos with my phone instead of a regular camera. From the smartphone,…
ytjohn on HN
Piwigo
From 1 comment
This is beautiful. AFAIK, the alternatives are either a self-hosted blog (not ideal, strips out EXIF data etc.) or something hideous like Piwigo. Awesome!
henryaj on HN
Zenphoto
From 1 comment
I like zenphoto http://www.zenphoto.org/
vraa on HN
Balder
From 1 comment
Another alternative is Balder which I made. It is built with Rails and can easily be hosted on Heroku with images on S3. See http://balderapp.com/
sleepyhead on HN