Wow neat! I do something similar with Jekyll for family photos. I have thought a lot about “private social media”. My core requirements sound similar to yours:
- It should be able to easily upload photos and videos from my phone
- everything is link-private, not on Google.
- it has to be very easy for the least tech savvy to view photos/videos. Needs to work on many devices, even old browsers on older PCs out there. Possibly even to the point of printing and mailing people the images.
- photos/videos need to be long-lived, I want to view these 30 years from now
- space for kids to post messages to their family. Family can respond easily
- I own everything and grant no rights to a giant mega Corp
- it should be possible to notify family members via email when new content is posted.
I find it curious why you are supporting such old browsers. Apart from "its cool" is there any market reason for it? Like are there really people out there using netscape 2.0? Or is it a side effect of your minimal technology? But that sounds limiting unnecessarily, you know?
- It should be able to easily upload photos and videos from my phone
- everything is link-private, not on Google.
- it has to be very easy for the least tech savvy to view photos/videos. Needs to work on many devices, even old browsers on older PCs out there. Possibly even to the point of printing and mailing people the images.
- photos/videos need to be long-lived, I want to view these 30 years from now
- space for kids to post messages to their family. Family can respond easily
- I own everything and grant no rights to a giant mega Corp
- it should be possible to notify family members via email when new content is posted.
I don’t have all those, but these are my ideal.