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<div class='blue box'>Switching to Piwigo is one of the steps my path to [[Internet Freedom]].</div>
The process of quitting Flickr and switching to [[Piwigo]] took place between the 21st and 23rd December 2020, but it took me all of Q1 of 2021 to completely configure the gallery and optimize the workflow, for good.
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Why quitting Flickr and choosing [[Piwigo]] instead:
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1. Start the 30 days free trial of Piwigo
2. Install Flickr2Piwigo plugin and follow this guide to import all of the pictures which are stored on Flickr. 1. What is not noted in the blog post is that the process is sloooow but stable, even though it’s better than I expected; on Flickr I had 17452 photos and it took me ~18 hours to import two thirds of them. 2. After this, the process got stuck and I believe it was because the server was too stressed. So, I stopped for a few hours. 3. For several days I attempted to continue the import, but there are the last ~1000 pictures which are mysteriously stuck and I couldn't find any way to import them through the plugin. I opened an issue about this.
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There are some very important features which are missing in Piwigo. I track them <a href='#bugs' title='Piwigo bugs and feature requests'>here</a>
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I used Flickr2Piwigo, a plugin to [[Flickr to Piwigo|import pictures from Flickr]].
1. Since importing photos from Flickr is very effective and most of the metadata is preserved, there is almost no configuration to be done, for what concerns the pictures. 1. For some reason, the albums’ cover images do not always correspond, so they must be updated. 2. I imported a lot of tags, which are meaningful in Flickr to improve SEO and public posts popularity, but in Piwigo they should have a practical focus. I deleted most of them and I kept the essential meaningful ones
2. Evaluate which plugins are actually useful and which should be installed.
3. Customizing the CSS: for a greater ease of use, I created this stylesheet which contains all of the rules I need, and I @import it in Piwigo’s custom CSS field. I customized everything on top on the dark version of the default theme, by making it match the design of tommi.space.
4. Setting a custom domain: there is no option to do it automatically from the settings, so I sent an email to Piwigo support in order to make https://tommi.piwigo.com match https://images.tommi.space, then, from my DNS records, I created several redirections such as https://visions.tommi.space or https://gallery.tommi.space, and they all point to the domain I wrote in the email
5. Improve private albums sharing, with ShareAlbum plugin
6. Read Piwigo privacy policy to check reliability for private pictures
7. ❌ Importing album descriptions
8. ❌ Importing Collections as parent albums