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One of the best pieces of self-hosted software ever to exist.
Edit: This is Immich! for the folks who don't know.
As someone who only used the stock synology app and has always wanted to try something else, what features and things does this do better? I am close to trying it out just to see. Im sure it will solve my 1 big issue where I can't control the location of photos that default to my application storage, which is pretty small, instead of my actual storage array.
I did the same after they revamped the backup functionality in the app, and it now finally seems to be trustworthy enough as my main method to get my pictures from my phone into the cloud. Could finally cancel my Google subscription as well.
Same, just bought a server license yesterday!
im like maybe one of few people who barely take photos. its great because i dont need to worry about the costs of cloud storage
Same bro, just became a supporter myself. Worth every dollar!
Yup, purchased myself 2 days ago. Absolutely deserve all of the support!
Is it better than NC?
If you use Nextcloud, install the App Memories and you will have the same functions as Immich plus all the upload functions of Nextcloud.
But if you are not interested in all the Nextcloud functionalities (including contact and calendar sync, musicserver, filesharing, etc) and just want picture management, Immich is the better choice.
That's exactly what I have, and that's exactly what I wanted ... DARN ... oh well. I guess it's nice to have the document sync as well
Never used NC but this just works.
Buying my copy soon!
Thanks for the reminder, done as well :)
I've tried Immich, but found my plain SMB shares already did 80% of what ~~immich could do~~ I wanted. The remaining 20% I could do easily with my favorite photo/video viewers (looping, filtering, tagging, location data).
I also hate how it's only a web portal for desktop. There's no native desktop app, and no seamless integration with file browsers, video players, etc.
Maybe I look at it again in a few years
It's a photo album? I kept hearing about it. I've been using a combo of just plain files, and sometimes nextcloud. Immich sounds like something to look into.
The ML is really good. Google's Face recognition is over-confident sometimes and is difficult to remove the tagged faces and add correct ones. Immich's is very accurate and if it misses something I can just add them — 1 step instead of 2 with Google's.
Also, if it turns out that immich misses too many faces, or has too many false positives, or creates too many different persons for one face, or groups different persons together, you can tune that. You can set the threshold values for all these things, or just use a different ML model and reanalyse your whole library. Even on an older CPU without any special ML features, it takes less than a night to reanalyse a hundred thousand pictures or so.
also, it's just stating the obvious, but it's not on a company's server that will sell all your info to the highest bidder
Certainly, especially because of the search features, social features and the ability to organise your photos, and the nice looking user interface.