Hello everyone!

First of all, thanks a lot for the amazing response and interest in Journiv. We have hundreds of stars, thousands of docker pull and many many feature request (and bugs reports) on Github in just two weeks (sleepless two weeks for me :)).

Journiv v0.1.0-beta.8 is out and in it I have added the most requested features.

Highlights:

  • OIDC support (now pretty stable)
  • In app one click export-import with history. So you always have your memories safe and backed up even if you don’t want to deal with docker backups
  • Role Based Access Control for user management.
  • Many quality of life features and bug fixes.
  • Read the release notes here

Journiv began as a deeply personal project, a way for me to capture memories, reflections, and the stories behind thousands of photos and videos of my fast-growing kids. What started as a tool for my own parenting journey has grown into something that fills a real gap in the self-hosting community.

If you’re curious, you can read the full story behind Journiv here.

I’m grateful that Journiv is now helping others preserve their memories as well.

The Journey Ahead

Journiv is in active development, with a fully functional backend, a web frontend, and mobile apps launching soon. It is self-hosted, and designed to be your companion for decades.

Journiv is being built because our memories deserve to be ours, forever.

So this Thanksgiving, give your family the gift of memories that last forever!

      • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.net
        2·
        2 months ago

        Cool, be sure to post about it if you do. Also, see if you can get it packaged for YUNOhost, either by yourself or let them know about it. Would love to try it out :)

          • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.net
            1·
            2 months ago

            I don’t have any stats to hand but judging by the amount of activity on the forum and the number of people here on Lemmy using it I would say that it is. It’s really good as well.

  • kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    36·
    2 months ago

    So this Thanksgiving, give your family the gift of memories that last forever!

    What is this marketing?

    I cannot imagine a single person who would want this for Thanksgiving.

    Most people under the age of 30 use social media now to “preserve memories”.

    The people who care about journaling probably have physical paper journals and wouldn’t want an app.

    And the people who would want an app… would probably already have installed this themselves.

    • lime!@feddit.nu
      7·
      2 months ago

      the literal first link is to a lemmy post full of people listing their usecases.

      • kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        22·
        2 months ago

        The post on… the opensource Lemmy community for self hosters. Is that the one you’re talking about?

        The marketing claims it’s “a gift for your family”.

        Not a single comment in that first link mentions family members using it.

        Here are the comments from the “people listing their use cases” you mentioned:

        • wow, this looks awesome!
        • it might be nice to have the a local storage option
        • I really wish it has a linux native app and an android app, hopefully in f-droid
        • As the admin of the !journaling@sh.itjust.works community

        My issue isn’t the app itself or it’s users.

        It’s the claim that it’s “a gift for your family”.