# photo/frontend

The official @github repository of the Trovebox frontend software. A photo sharing and photo management web interface for data stored "in the cloud" (i.e. Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles, Google Storage).

Repository: https://github.com/photo/frontend
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/photo-frontend
Homepage: https://trovebox.com
Language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-07-15T04:48:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5588, "days_push": 779, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_readme
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1378, forks 246 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:33.543008+00:00)

## What it is
Trovebox (formerly OpenPhoto) frontend is a JavaScript web interface for photo sharing and photo management, designed to work with photos stored in cloud storage services like Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles, and Google Storage. It was the client for the Trovebox/OpenPhoto platform, whose hosted service was shut down in 2015 after acquisition by Western Digital.

## Use cases
- self-host a photo sharing website backed by S3 storage
- manage a personal photo library in the cloud
- build a web gallery on top of cloud object storage
- import photos from Flickr or Smugmug into own storage
- share photo albums with friends without a hosted service

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted photo web UI backed by your own cloud storage buckets
- you are maintaining or forking the legacy Trovebox/OpenPhoto platform

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained photo management solution
- you expect the hosted Trovebox service, which shut down in 2015
- you want modern features like mobile sync or AI-based organization

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: image-processing, web-framework, http-client
- domain: photography, web-development, media, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: photo-sharing, photo-management, cloud-storage, javascript, discontinued-service, web-server

## Member repositories
- photo/frontend (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:33.543008+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:40:23.370636+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - homepage: https://trovebox.com (fetched 2026-08-29T11:56:43.993972+00:00, sha c87542cfe7f7)
  - site_page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About (fetched 2026-08-29T11:56:44.003051+00:00, sha 822f861f7833)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.