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Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by slaterbug »

darkwater wrote: post #15
jaredlt wrote: post #7

I appreciate the Cursed Knowledge section on their website https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge > Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew

Reading it I see this 50 extra packages are cursed There is a user in the JavaScript community who goes around adding "backwards compatibility" to projects. They do this by adding 50 extra package dependencies to your project, which are maintained by them. which bring to this user: Jordan Harband https://github.com/sponsors/ljharb Does anyone know what they actually mean with that cursed knowledge point? And what's t…

I don't have much to add myself, but there was a bit of discussion around this back in August that you might be interested in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831811

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by abdusco »

avtolik wrote: post #6

I haven't heard of this app before, so I looked around their site and docs. I was mildly interested in trying it out until I saw the requirements: "A system with at least 4GB of RAM and 2 CPU cores.", but recommended 6 GB of RAM. Why does an image storage solution needs so much RAM?

You can turn off AI features. You won't need as much RAM, then.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by Barbing »

stavros wrote: post #4

I use Immich and it's fantastic. All other self-hosted alternatives I I've used have been lacking in one way or another, but Immich is a joy to use. Fast, featureful, easy to set up. I love it so much I gave them $100 to support them. After stopping for years because it was hard to view them easily, I'm finally taking photos again because of Immich.

>After stopping for years

Honestly, thank you for making me feel marginally better about the disgustingly lazy, shortsighted, stupid etc. practice of using Google Photos even though they are waiting with bated breath to report me to the cops because I took a picture of my son to send to his doctor[1], before banning my whole account.

Migrating to Immich, 2026, hold me to it please lazy me! Oh how’s the search? (Too lazy to label anything so rely on Google Spyware for text & object recognition search when iOS fails. Take photos every day of my life so plenty to trawl through.)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by dsego »

This is the one photo manager that I have my eyes on, I'm just worried about critical bugs, I've seen some issues reported on github with losing data, like this one on the mobile app. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/21936

Not sure what to say, could be a very very rare edge case, but it's not very reassuring.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by teekert »

Immich is really great, easily now my fav self-hosted app. I used the Immich CLI [0] and later Immich-go [1] to get all my photos in. That was a breeze. I set it to use the folders as albums... And now I have a lot of cleaning up to do, but other than with files and folders, I'm really enjoying the process!

A poweruser tip that has helped me a couple of times: Use ZFS (or other snapshotting facilities) to make snapshot before making any changes/updates or doing large imports. It makes the whole thing sort of bullet proof and you can retry if you're not happy with some import flag.

Immich had my old Corei3 server making a lot of noise for a couple of days btw! But, it's really good at facial recognition, not so much on finding dogs or something. But still very cool if you don't have to compromise on features as a self-hoster, I'm really grateful and will buy the "support package" (which does not add anything afaik... btw later they will come with a way to do seamless, encrypted off-site backups).

[0] https://docs.immich.app/features/command-line-interface/

[1] https://github.com/simulot/immich-go

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by InsideOutSanta »

dsego wrote: post #24

This is the one photo manager that I have my eyes on, I'm just worried about critical bugs, I've seen some issues reported on github with losing data, like this one on the mobile app. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/21936 Not sure what to say, could be a very very rare edge case, but it's not very reassuring.

I've been using Immich for a year now and haven't lost a single image.

Having said that, if you self-host something like this, you're responsible for making backups. The actual photos uploaded to Immich are stored in the file system as regular files. Any other data that Immich can't easily recreate is stored in Postgres, which it automatically dumps once a day. So if you back up your image files and your Postgres dumps, you can always recreate your library.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by drekipus »

I've been working on a project that had a similar origin story, and gave up because it's so big.

I'm glad to see immich strive forward.

I wanted to change the "approach" of how I do photos:

* When I take a photo, it's usually in the moment.

* I want to have the option to "share" that photo directly to a certain album

* I'd want my wife / friends to be able to "share" the photo to those albums

Almost the same way that "frequent contacts" come up from WhatsApp.

Is this possible with the current app? This is what I wanted my app to do, and focus on being more "album" centric, rather than a big-black-hole of all photos I've ever taken..

I might even make my app, but use immich on the backend, and allow users to order a hardcopy / backup of their albums as part of the app.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by darkamaul »

I’ve been running Immich for about two years on Oracle’s free tier (200 GB disk / ARM VM), and it works great. Since I don’t fully trust Oracle for long-term storage, I’ve configured a daily backup to Backblaze.

My only minor complaint is that new releases are super frequent and rarely add anything meaningful.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by ignoramous »

stavros wrote: post #4

I use Immich and it's fantastic. All other self-hosted alternatives I I've used have been lacking in one way or another, but Immich is a joy to use. Fast, featureful, easy to set up. I love it so much I gave them $100 to support them. After stopping for years because it was hard to view them easily, I'm finally taking photos again because of Immich.

> Fast, featureful, easy to set up. I love it so much...

Alex Tran (Immich lead) really took it up a notch or two when FUTO "acquired" the project. The FUTO model is interesting in showing another successful way to grow & support FLOSS till self-sustainability.

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