Congrats, and thank you so much for sharing this. I've been planning out how to build out a personal archive/website to run at home, just for my family and disconnected from the internet, and mediagoblin looks like the perfect solution for hosting media in a more convenient way than just folders and files.
>mediagoblin looks like the perfect solution for hosting media in a more convenient way than just folders and files.
I'll just warn you now that MediaGoblin is deceptively hard to work with. I chose it because I got it up and running quickly, but over time, I'd keep running into issues that should have been simple but required digging through their source and sometimes making my own patches. It also doesn't specify dependencies very precisely, so I constantly had issues installing it when its dependencies changed out from under it and broke everything. I tried hard for a while to get my patches merged upstream to prevent others from re-doing my work[0], but the project has effectively been unmaintained for the past 2+ years, save for a few brief spurts of work every few months.
If I were starting from scratch, I'd use a static site generator like Hugo or Gatsby to just generate thumbnails and URLs for each clip. You'd have to write a little custom code, but I suspect it's less time overall than you'd spend getting MediaGoblin to work.
oh, that's maybe even more helpful than the original post itself! Appreciate the heads up. I'll take your advice and start with Hugo or Gatsby in addition to checking out Mediagoblin.
