
kefir
Hi, I'm busy backing up my files to a remote s3 storage, in essence migrating away from Google photos. But I'm curious about the roadmap and the "Photo management tools" on the roadmap for 2024. I often search my media files by face recognition, by geographic location, and by date/time. How will that work with the planned s3drive features? Will a shared database/index be stored on s3, or will an index be local to a device? Will I have to re-index/process all files before they can be searched?
I think I've missed that one. We haven't made much progress on that.
In the ideal scenario we would keep local state which could be then synced with other devices, with some periodic backup to S3.
There are some projects which utilize S3 as a database, but given that there isn't proper locking mechanism is pretty hard to avoid corruption in the long-run.
We haven't researched feasible options just yet.
If you aim to replace Google Photos, you might try Ente project, these guys focus on photo management and support E2E. I haven't tried that project myself, but I've heard lots of positives.
We will eventually catch up, but honestly not sure if we can make much progress on that this year. (edited)