Scroll, do not file: Pixtale turns a folder of photos into a flowing masonry river you can browse for hours, pulling images from local disk, S3, and even Telegram into one gallery. Uploads get automatic thumbnails and high-resolution previews tuned for slow connections, so grandparents on hotel Wi-Fi see pictures fast instead of watching loading spinners. Every photo keeps its EXIF story, camera, lens, exposure, and capture time, and the timeline arranges the library chronologically without you renaming a single file. The Pixtale Sync companion ships photos from phones and PCs to the gallery automatically, ending the cable-and-import ritual after every trip. Favorites, albums, and a trash bin keep curation tidy, while multiple user accounts let each family member sign in to the same library with their own credentials. An admin overview watches photo counts, storage consumption, CPU, and memory, and storage settings let you add or repoint backends as the collection outgrows its first disk. Because the whole gallery runs from one Docker container with a small SQLite database, backups are a folder copy and the library stays portable between machines. Your photos live on your hardware, under your accounts, with no per-seat pricing as the archive grows. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.