[snowwrestler]

Folders have problems too, inflexible and depend on people managing them well. If the team can’t be bothered to namespace files and fill in metadata properly, I doubt they will manage folders well either.

It’s 2022. There’s got to be something more sophisticated than folders, something content-aware that reliably finds the desired image in the library and suggests it when someone tries to upload a dupe. How do we have computer vision reliable enough to recognize people on our phones and steer a car, but we’re still relying on metadata and folders to find images in a web CMS?

But the truth is, storage is cheap so there is no compelling reason to solve this problem. If the site ends up with 27 copies of the same JPG, who cares? Oh no, we used 30MB we didn’t have to.

[wink]

That does not make sense to me at all. As a single user, where is the relation between "namespace files" and "metadata" when all I want is to upload some images to a folder named foo or 2022?

I'm not saying there isn't a better solution, but other blog/cms applications could do folders without problems 15 years ago.