[dariosalvi78]

I sync my photos with an old Raspberypi 3 with Syncthing, then have my own very basic web photo gallery: https://github.com/dariosalvi78/simple-gallery which supports permissions and thumbnails. If you have a sensible folder structure, for example by year/event you don't need anything else. I am also working on face recognition and geo location, but the hardware limitations are challenge (a fun one to solve tho).

[Melatonic]

Manual photo structure like this is highly underrated.

[DavidPiper]

Also came to say this - I love what TFA has done, but for me everything is already stored, dated and grouped, so I was thinking I could just add Syncthing on top of that and call it a day.

Doesn't solve fancy things like facial recognition, etc, though of course.