Synology photos is SLOW and buggy

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Synology photos is SLOW and buggy

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I use the DS918+ model, not the slowest of them all, and yet Synology Photos is SLOW AS HELL
  1. Moving to the next photo by clicking "right" arrow on a laptop keyboard is SLOW. I wait 2-5 seconds per image. What am I waiting for?
  2. Safari keeps complaining that "this application uses too much memory and slows down your computer"
  3. The "Zoom In" button is incredibly laggy on a 13" Macbook Pro. Not usable.
What kind of programming geniuses managed to make a web album software in 2021 that's SLOW? We had web albums 20 years ago and they worked fine on computers that were 10 times slower than this NAS!

[EDIT] I figured out why this is so broken by looking at web developer tools. The geniuses download the entire full-size image EVERY TIME (!) and resize it on the client via JavaScript. That's 30MB file download for each image in my case. PhotoStation was developed by functioning adults who pre-rendered lower-resolution images on the server side ahead of time.

DESIGN ISSUES & BUGS
  • Folders do not obey sort rules (I need them to be sorted by date). They also get sorted by name.
  • When opening a photo, it cannot be clearly seen because it's obstructed by idiotic gradient overlay that only goes away after a few seconds. Who came up with this dumb idea to layer a bunch of grey matter over my image? PhotoStation also suffered from this disease.
  • "Zoom In" button is useless. Just have a "100% zoom" button which opens a full-size image in a separate tab, like Photo Station used to do.
  • In folder/calendar view the fat sticky header eats 25% of vertical real estate, not leaving much space for actual photos.
  • Sharing an image is useless - it shares the entire album, just hides other images in it. There is no way for me to just send a URL to a simple JPG file, just like a sane person would expect: https://host/path/to/file.jpg <--- too hard?

PROS

The iPhone app is actually very nicely done. Zero surprises, works exactly as one would expect. Love it. Fire the web development team, take their salaries and pay out bonuses to mobile developers.
 

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