Thanks for the feedback! We're still trying to figure out how to explain it in the best and shortest way, but I agree that the current page might be missing the information you're looking for.

Here's a post explaining the problem we're solving: https://medium.com/@electerious/sharing-components-between-f...

Malvid is very similar to Fractal and highly inspired by it. They both don't care about how you transpile your assets (JS, SCSS, etc.). You can use gulp, Grunt or whatever you want. Malvid takes this one step further by not caring about the template transpilation either. This allows you to use any templating language you want, without writing a plugin. Just by using existing tools. This makes Malvid flexible and easier to integrate into most workflows (this—of course—depends on your workflow).

We also added features we missed in Fractal. Like a search/filter and switching between components without a page reload.

It might be worth a try when you're not 100% happy with Fractal. Otherwise you can stay with it. Fractal is a great tool :)

Interesting. I'm not sure if I can do anything to improve the performance further. The frame rate stays by almost 60fps and the amount of repaints on the site has been reduced to a minimum. It runs smooth on my older retina MacBook, but I can also see a subtle janky animation when I scroll fast.

Hey, everyone!

Lychee is a project I developed in my spare time. It's a self-hosted photo-management-system and a great place to share, store and manage your photos and inspiration. The third version comes with a redesigned interface and rewritten front-end. A lot of requested features have been added since my last post on HN. I hope you guys like, use and share it. I'm open for questions and feedback of any kind.

Thanks! :)

Cool!

But no sign up and login feature?(support Multi-user)

Multiple users could install Lychee on one server with Sandstorm.io. https://demo.sandstorm.io/appdemo/z6rj6js4h8p8rjz2myp3dwmv3m...

Lychee is currently a single-user system, but multiple users are planned: https://github.com/electerious/Lychee/issues/132

Not at the moment, sorry.

Tags and RSS feeds for albums are already planned.

I think it's a great name for a product. Almost every name which has something to do with photos is already taken. And I like Lychees ;)

Tip: You can right-click on single images/albums to rename, move or star them. By now, it may be easier to upload photos directly into the album of your choice.

Multi-select is planned.

This plugin lets you sync OwnCloud with Lychee: https://github.com/GustavePate/lycheesync It might not work with version 2.0, but the code may help you to start developing some great stuff.

Our server gets hammered by you guys. Here is the direct link to GitHub: https://github.com/electerious/Lychee

Hi, great tool guys! Lovely. During configuration I keep getting an error during the creation of the database connection to mysql: "Connection failed. Unable to connect to host database because access was denied. Double check host username password to ensure that access is permitted"

Can't I write whatever username and password I want? Should I create the database before hand?

This could help. Here is how the php/config.php should look like: http://cl.ly/TVft

you need to create the database before hand and provide the credentials for your database and mysql username and password