The new Synology Photos is a downgrade from Phot Station in my opinion.
So, if you are a long time Photo Station user, stay away for now. Some of my findings after 2 days of playing around with DSM7.
System. Although I have 1.8TB of nvme cache and 16G of RAM the GUI seems to be more laggy. I did not really saw any new features. Login Portal is pretty interesting though.
Now, for the real issue that made me go back to 6.2.
I am a long time user of Photo Station and I really can't understand how so many features of Photo Station were stripped from it on the new Synology Photos.
Only played around with it for 2 days now, as I did (unfortunately) the upgrade to DSM7 :
1. there is no option to have granular folder permissions.
2. Automatic rotation of photos based on the subject's posture is not working anymore.
3. No more "Rotate +/- 90 degrees". You need to do a full 270 in some cases.
4. Sharing a folder does not automatically share its sub-folders (Like if you have a structure like Vacation>then couple of sub-folders Day1 Day2 Day3.Trip, etc). Sharing the link you get from top folder Vacation will not show what you have in Day1 Day2 etc.
5. Sharing links are prone to harvesting as they are formated like https:\\<fqdn>...SYNO.Foto.AppInstance#/shared_space/folder/12. This way you can be harvested by only changing the number after folder/. Photo Station had randomized strings URLs generated.
6. ALL and all this really looks like a step back from Photo Station. I'm really opened to new things, but Synololgy Photos looks to be still beta.
7. I used Photo Station for years in order to share memories with my family and close friends. Really wish you reconsider and release PhotoStation on DSM7 as well.
Just noticed I almost use twice the space for the SAME photos with Synology Photos.
Looks like whatever Syno Photos is doing, is doubling the space required for a single file.
Here, an example for a MPG file
root@coreVAULT-1:/volume1/photo/2006/05_Arcanbi# ls -alh MOV04755.MPG
----------+ 1 mitzone users 71M Jan 30 2011 MOV04755.MPG
And the eaDir content for that MPG file
root@coreVAULT-1:/volume1/photo/2006/05_Arcani# ls -alh \@eaDir/MOV04755.MPG
total 128M
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 root root 310 Jul 1 02:43 .
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 root root 21K Jul 1 14:28 ..
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 root root 40 Jul 1 02:43 @eaDir
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 root root 476 Jul 1 02:41 SYNOINDEX_MEDIA_INFO
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 root root 79 Jul 1 02:41 SYNOINDEX_VIDEO_METADATA
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64M Jul 1 02:43 SYNOPHOTO_FILM_M.mov
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64M Jul 1 02:43 SYNOPHOTO_FILM_M.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K Jul 1 02:42 SYNOPHOTO_THUMB_M.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.6K Jul 1 02:42 SYNOPHOTO_THUMB_SM.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20K Jul 1 02:42 SYNOPHOTO_THUMB_XL.jpg
Cmmon' Syno. What are you guys smoking? Going back to DSM6 for me. Can't live with Synology Photos.