#nextcloud
About Photo albums:
So one thing that bothers me when creating photo albums in Nextcloud is that there is no way to custom-sort the images, similar to the drag&drop in Google photos. Pictures are always sorted by date. (Using the MemoriesApp doesn't change this behaviour)
So I'm just wondering does this bother anyone else, or just me? 😄
My main pain scenario is that when I was on a trip with someone else, afterwards the other person sends me all their pics on Signal and when I save them, the pics will have a new creation-date. So because of that, if I merge their photos with mine, theirs will show up at the end 😵 (making the other person not send the pics through Signal is not an option since that person is not technical, and I refuse to make THEM change their habits)
I'm just thinking about taking a look at the Nextcloud extension system and maybe give it a try to build a simple app that allows drag and drop sort for items in an album. It would basically touch the date and when drag&dropping an item between two other items, it would set the creation date to a middle value between the previous and next item's date. Unfortunately a very hacky solution...
If someone has ideas or suggestions (or a better approach for this), let me know 😊
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