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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/ValerioLyndon on 2025-04-08 03:45:59+00:00.
I've been looking around and I can't seem to find a good option for self-hosting a tag-based image software. Specifically, I am trying to replace Hydrus Network because sharing my Hydrus collection across devices is basically impossible and it's extremely sluggish. There are loads of camera/photo applications, but not really any booru-style ones...
So far I have found szurubooru, shimmie2, and Danbooru. Danbooru is out due to it's licence and while I haven't looked into it it seems like overkill for a single user. szurubooru is more promising and seems solidly built, but is again more focused on being an online service than a personal one. Primarily it does not appear to have any filesystem-based import feature? I only see the web upload which is a no-go as I need to convert a Hydrus database and a terabyte of files to whatever new system I use. shimmie2 appears to have the same lack of integration with local files.
If I were to distill what I was looking for, it would be a multi-media browsing software that has high quality import options from my local filesystem and has support for arbitrary tags, tag namespaces, tag implications (parents / siblings). Does that exist?