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Looking for shared storage with access without loging in (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Daaric@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi guys, this might or might not be entirely off topic. I am looking for a solution that would in a civilized manner allow me to gather photos and maybe videos from a bunch off poeple.

Background

There will be an anniversary at our local community and we are preparing a printed publication. Due to us being a bunch of incompetent, naive fools, all photos are spread across our memberbase. We don't have any collective storage or album.
We want to use these photos for our publication, thus we need to collect them from our members and to make things worse, it is really on short notice, we have like 14 days to pull this off.

What do we need right now?

Online upload
about 50 users
ages from teens to seniors
mostly Windows users, mixed Android, iOS and dumbphone
possible mobile app
Anybody with URL shall upload and edit folders
Shouldn't need to create account or log in
preferably folder structure (no AI sorting nonsense)
total size unknown - my estimate is <100GB
I don't care right now if it is FOSS or not

Right now preferably not self hosted

Wrong community, I know. But, my home server is not accessible outside LAN and I am afraid that I wouldn't set VPS fully working in time. I would be very happy and grateful for both advice for our current situation and for (FOSS) selfhosted solution we could use in the future. Hopefully I can finally convince everyone, we really need at least NAS, so there will be no next time... Cheers

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[–] toxicyeti@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Dropbox website has a special folder you can create as a temporary upload space for anyone with the link.

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
CGNAT	Carrier-Grade NAT
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP	Internet Protocol
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NAT	Network Address Translation
VPN	Virtual Private Network
nginx	Popular HTTP server

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

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[–] mrwiggles@prime8s.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I think your best bet in this case is google drive. Most people have a google account, and if they don't, I believe it's possible to set it up in a way that it will let them upload anyway. I don't think you're getting out of the account requirement, outside of you setting up an anonymous ftp server in a vps or something.

[–] Daaric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks to everyone for ideas and your time. We have set a dropbox account and sent out a file request link, it is filling up already.
When this anniversary is over, on our next meeting I will bring up the possibility of deploying our own NAS with nextcloud at our building.
Cheers