Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

Post by izacus » Mon, Sep 08, 2025, 8:43 PM UTC

dalenw wrote: post #119

rlpb wrote: post #114

I would love to give this a try but its software supply chain story seems like a car crash, with dependency bumps needed every few days: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/commits/main/server/pac... I'm keen to use it as soon as the dependency story is mature (eg. it is packaged in Debian). This doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon. I'm sure many people won't care about this. But for me, it's a measure of qu…

To be fair, there’s a massive banner on their front page warning users it’s in beta. Until they settle on a proper release it’ll continue to be a bit chaotic. All software development is like that.

Post by WD-42 » Mon, Sep 08, 2025, 9:08 PM UTC

rlpb wrote: post #114

I would love to give this a try but its software supply chain story seems like a car crash, with dependency bumps needed every few days: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/commits/main/server/pac... I'm keen to use it as soon as the dependency story is mature (eg. it is packaged in Debian). This doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon. I'm sure many people won't care about this. But for me, it's a measure of qu…

Post by bo0tzz » Mon, Sep 08, 2025, 9:23 PM UTC

DavideNL wrote: post #95

joob123 wrote: post #93

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Do they store photos end-to-end encrypted?

Post by fivestones » Mon, Sep 08, 2025, 9:26 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #131

dalenw wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, there’s a massive banner on their front page warning users it’s in beta. Until they settle on a proper release it’ll continue to be a bit chaotic. All software development is like that.

This looks like one of those projects that will never settle and have a stable slower release cycle.

Post by OptionOfT » Mon, Sep 08, 2025, 9:39 PM UTC

rustyminnow wrote: post #79

N-Krause wrote: post #9

Runs on a Pi4 in a cabinet with a lot of other self hosted stuff. Data is stored on a NAS. Performance on the Pi4 isn't the greatest, but it works without any annoyance. It has been hosting my SO's and my photos for a few months, the transition from Google Photos was pretty easy and it is almost a drop in replacement. I love it. Make sure to checkout https://github.com/simulot/immich-go , it was a great help migratin…

How do you expose the service for your SO when away from home? Do you use tailscale/cloudflare tunnel/vpn? public port on your router? I've been trying tailscale for myself, but there's a hair more friction than my SO would accept.