[Request] Promote Memories app

[luxzg]

Steps to reproduce

Not a bug, just a request.

When you install NC, you get Photos which is fine for basic tasks in a case where Photos are small(er) part of content. Foe people that use NC at home and have huge libraries of photos, Memories is better solution (IMHO), but it is hard to find for most people, and some users that aren't satisfied with Photos just move on from NC to something else, without realizing this awesome app exists.

Expected behaviour

Add a screen that gives a spotlight to Memories app.

There is a discussion about these suggestions and reasons for them in the App Store repo, but I'd add this here as an idea, as there could be a place for an app like this in the first run slides.

Link:
nextcloud/appstore#942

Actual behaviour

Memories is Photos on steroids, but gets no visibility in any of official materials. Perhaps we could change that, to benefit of NC users and growth of NC community

Server configuration

Operating system:
All

Web server:
All

Database:
All

PHP version:
All

Nextcloud version: (see Nextcloud admin page)
26

Where did you install Nextcloud from:
Manually

List of activated apps:
Photos
Memories

Nextcloud configuration:
All

Client configuration

Browser:
All

Operating system:
All

Logs

None

Nextcloud log (data/owncloud.log)

None

Browser log

None

[ChildLearningClub]

@luxzg I 100% agree that there needs to be more awareness given to the Memories app, and second that a spotlight screen when installing would be a great addition.

What I also think would be great is if the Nextcloud team reached out and initiating more collaboration with pulsejet to come up with a way of integrating the two into a “Photo Memories” app.

I think the Nextcloud team ideally likes to be able to have and develop core apps within their already established team, and maybe even tend to draw ideas from the apps created by the community in creating their own in-house solution, leaving the Apps Store app as an alternative option. I’m not completely sure how I feel about this approach, or that there even is a better way because I can see it from both sides… Anyway, I think Memories adds a significant amount of additional features and other things that the Nextcloud team considers a more inclusive approach between what they are doing in-house with Photos and what pulsejet is doing with Memories.

Edit: looks like you already linked to the Migrating to Nextcloud GitHub page, so I guess I will just leave my comment as supporting that and what you are saying above.

Edit 2: Also just seeing this thread now, I didn’t realize pulsejet was happy with keeping it as a separate app. Although I would still argue that what he has created could benefit everyone, who doesn’t take photos and want them to actually load fast enough to see them ;)