Hi Piwigo team,

I'll admit I've been a bit disloyal lately—looking for album software that could handle iOS and Android photo stashes and effectively replace iCloud and Google Photos on our devices. I tried Immich, PhotoPrism, and NextCloud (which has particularly great and easy apps for this purpose).

But here's the thing: none of them support nested albums. They lean entirely on tags for categorization, and that's just not good enough. Not for organizing decades of family photos. Not for making something my non-technical relatives can actually use. Tags require everyone to learn my organizational system. Nested albums like "Holidays → 2023 → Spain" are instantly understandable to anyone.

My Piwigo-hosted albums are nested. They will remain nested. And after this search, I'm sticking with Piwigo precisely because you understand that different people have different mental models for organizing their memories—and hierarchical structures are how humans have naturally organized information for millennia.

So please, Piwigo: never abandon nested albums. While the "modern" alternatives chase Google Photos' approach and decide there's only one correct way to think about photo organization, your flexibility is what makes you irreplaceable.

Thanks for maintaining software that respects how people actually think, and here is hoping for improvements on your device apps.