i have one pet peeve with every photo organizer or gallery i've tried: they are slow.. especially for very large galleries. if you read the original google blog post about how they built photos, a lot of effort went into performance. so i took that as inspiration to start building an open source offline-first organizer that takes this performance to your desktop (and up a notch). its not on github yet, but seeing the enthusiasm here i thought i would ask what else would you want to see in it? my hn username is also my github username, for the curious :)
I am not sure where my bottlenecks are but I do not have a ton of photos but specific operations are incredibly slow in EVERY photo tool like scrolling through dates and loading thumbnails.
exactly!!! yes they are. for thumbnails im using webP which achieves much better compression than the more standard png (like 10:1) which enables us to do a lot more with them. and when navigating fullsize photos, using some intelligent preloading so we never bog out :D
i'll try to get some initial commits pushed up soon. u can follow me here, the project is called montage (open to suggestions on name too lol):
