Slidenight was a project to create a Google Photos style photo hosting site on the Google Cloud Platform using Google App Engine Python that was developed in 2014/2015.
It is no longer in development
Features:
- Responsive interface (Ember.JS)
- Utilise Google Cloud Storage for storing photos
- Automatically gets free thumbnail storage
- Search metadata in browser (all photo data loaded into browser)
- Photos lazily loaded just below the browser window viewport
- Lightbox supporting lazy loading of full-size images with left/right pre-fetch
- Arbitrary tagging support
- Smart upload to galleries (Duplicate detection client side, parallel uploads)
- Comments support
- live gallery syncronisation of changes between users using Channel API
- Fine grained permissions
- comment
- delete
- edit
- move
- sort
- upload
- user add/delete
- Email notifications
You can view an example gallery here.