[jw_cook]

If your main use case for a web UI is browsing photos, have you considered a self-hosted photo gallery like PhotoPrism, Immich, or Lychee?

I'm in a similar boat, where I use NextCloud but really wish there was a better option (especially for mobile photo sync). Syncthing + Photoprism is currently at the top of my list of possible viable alternatives.

[SushiHippie]

PhotoPrism could have been an alternative, but the FOSS variant does only have admin accounts, and does not allow to have "normal" users.

I also tried Immich, but it just didn't work well.

I think I didn't try out lychee, but I took a look at the demo site, and it seemed a bit to minimal for me.

Though I'll definitely keep an eye at these galleries, as I don't think Nextcloud will improve their UX in this regard.

Syncthing seems to be by far the best solution for synchronising files, I just wish there a gallery that would suit my needs. If I was proficient in frontend development I'd already have created one.