[Enhancement] timeline view of photos

[oliverrahner]

I come from using DS Photo, the proprietary solution from DiskStation. I don't like it mainly for being closed source and for its performance, that's why I'm trying to switch to Lychee.

Anyways, they provide a feature which helped me a lot while navigating through my big, messy, unsorted pile of photos:

Show all images from the whole gallery, ordered by time.
Of course this could be accompanied by lots of other filters for tags, location [don't know if the database exposes that information in suitable way currently], albums...

I'm thinking about hacking together some sort of solution for Lychee only for myself but decided to check if other people needed this as well, and then maybe put in some more effort.

[ildyria]

I like the idea.

The details of implementation are a bit more complex as I am currently rewriting the front-end to work with Livewire.

location [don't know if the database exposes that information in suitable way currently]

We do have an opt-in reverse location search.

[oliverrahner]

So, if I started working on this, should I wait for something from your side to be finished or base off a certain branch for efficiency?

[ildyria]

Not necessarily.

I would enable the livewire mode in your .env by adding a line LIVEWIRE_ENABLED=true.

And then you can navigate to https://example.com/livewire/ to see what the new layout look like.
Do note that:

1. it aims to be visually the same (as close as possible, there will be modifications)
2. it is barely functional (it is pretty much a "read only", there is no mouse interaction yet -- right click)
3. it does not depends on JS that much anymore => the heavy lifting is now done in blade-php.

From there you can add a new livewire route in web.php and start hacking a new timeline page.

Sure your functionality will not be available directly, but this will avoid to do double the work
(one for the JS front-end, one for the future front-end).

I let you decide which you prefer.

Also know that @nagmat84 is doing a significant refactoring of the back end at the moment.
I don't know how much progress he made on that. :)

[clix10]

Hey, this is something that I would also be very interested in.

Tnx :)

[greys]

hi, wonder if it's still being worked on? Perhaps in the SE edition? Thanks

[ildyria]

The timeline view for albums and inside albums is done. The full timeline view for pictures is work in progress as in, a lot is there but some of the functionalities are broken. I haven't had much time to work on it recently. There is a timeline branch on git and /timeline URL on that branch. Lots of work in that direction but still some other things I need to fix (infinite scrolling for example).

The SE edition just give more configuration options.

[greys]

Thanks for the update, just installed latest docker version and current default functionality seems great!

I wanted something similar to "Recent" smart album but shown directly at the bottom of main page (under albums, pretty much in place of the current timeline) - it's a photo stream of chronologically sorted recently added photos.

Will see if I can configure it way and report back.

[ildyria]

I wanted something similar to "Recent" smart album but shown directly at the bottom of main page (under albums, pretty much in place of the current timeline) - it's a photo stream of chronologically sorted recently added photos.

Yes that's the functionality I mentioned above which is in the /timeline page. Still work in progress, but it's planned for the next release.