Hi! I am looking for a simple way of sharing family photos and videos with a few people.

Our current “workflow” is to take photos and upload them to a directory on Dropbox. That directory is set to show the files without any authentication. We have a script that we run periodically that renames the files to contain the date they were taken as part of the filename.

An example of our file tree would be:

• family
  • 2020
  • 2021
  • 2022
  • photo-xyz-2023-10-01.jpg
  • photo-xyz-2023-10-02.jpg
  • photo-xyz-2023-10-03.jpg
  • video-xyz-2023-10-04.mp4
  • photo-xyz-2023-10-05.jpg

What we need/want:

• Not a lot of advanced configuration we’ll not use
• That the directory tree (we can re-arrange the folder structure if needed) is the “source of truth” and that the self-hosted solution just provides a nice way of navigating and looking at the photos and videos. In other words, if we have to import something manually when a new photo/video is added, it’s too much effort.

We’ll keep using Dropbox for now, and sync the files to our home server, which also runs docker containers.

Any ideas? I guess it could just be a web-based file browser of some kind, which makes it easy to view photos and videos. I’ve mostly seen complicated software when I’ve browsed around.