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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 MrJohz »

ffsm8 wrote: post #35
whilenot-dev wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree, I wish every project would have that! I still think the conclusion on "setTimeout is cursed"[0] is faulty: > The setTimeout method in JavaScript is cursed when used with small values because the implementation may or may not actually wait the specified time. The issue to me seems that performance.now() [1] returns the timestamp in milliseconds and will therefor round up/down. So 1ms errors are just within its…

JS is not a realtime language. setTimeout() does not actually guarantee to run after the elapsed time. It merely gets queued for the next async execution window after that timer elapsed. Hence it can also be off by infinity and never get called - because JS is single threaded (unless you use a worker - which comes with its own challenges) and async windows only open if the main thread is "idle". Usually, this is very…

This isn't quite the whole picture. If called in a nested context, `setTimeout` callbacks get executed in the next execution window, or at least 4ms after the initial call, whichever is earlier. Similarly, I believe `setInterval` has a minimum interval that it can't run faster than.

See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/setT...

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by oblio »

sonar_un wrote: post #41

For me Immich has been good, but not great. I keep going back to nextcloud photos if I really want to do any work, like sharing images and file management. I really don’t get having all of your images in a a library and not in a file structure. Immich can look at your external libraries but it can’t really do anything with them. I can’t injest, say my iPhone photos and then later categorize them and move them to the…

They've been around for a 3 years, which is not a very long time for FOSS. However the software seems stable, fast, it has lots of releases, all of which are good signs in terms of future availability.

I forgot the name, but there is a software "law" that software that has been around for N years will probably be around for N more years (so the longer it's been around, the longer it will continue to be around).

I see about 7 big contributors: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/graphs/contributors. I think most of them work for/are sponsored by FUTO: https://futo.org/about/what-is-futo/

And seeing the FUTO description, I like that. We need more of that :-)

> FUTO is an organization dedicated to developing, both through in-house engineering and investment, technologies that frustrate centralization and industry consolidation.

Though this part needs more research:

> From its founding, FUTO has been funded entirely by investment from its sole owner, Eron Wolf.

I have no idea who Eron Wolf is...

Edit: found some more info. Potentially promising:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914264

https://gitlab.futo.org/eron/public/-/wikis/Thoughts-on-Open...

Though the question remains about FUTOs long term sustainability.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by ghgr »

haunter wrote: post #36

What’s a good desktop app with the same-ish goal? > High performance [desktop] photo and video management solution Honestly all I want is - Non destructive library management. No copying and moving files and the library is just “a file” - Exif GPS map with search support (“Photos taken at NYC between 2 and 4pm”) - Automated (AI?) photo tagging

Checkout https://bpatrik.github.io/pigallery2/. I've been using it for years and it checks all the boxes you're looking for

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by phlsa »

haunter wrote: post #36

What’s a good desktop app with the same-ish goal? > High performance [desktop] photo and video management solution Honestly all I want is - Non destructive library management. No copying and moving files and the library is just “a file” - Exif GPS map with search support (“Photos taken at NYC between 2 and 4pm”) - Automated (AI?) photo tagging

digiKam[1] might be for you. I only tried it briefly, but I think it covers most of the requirements out outlined.

I personally landed on Peakto[2], since it has the unique ability to create a unified catalog across multiple CaptureOne sessions, but it's probably overkill for what you need.

[1] https://www.digikam.org

[2] https://cyme.io/en/products/peakto/

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by haunter »

ghgr wrote: post #55
haunter wrote: post #36

What’s a good desktop app with the same-ish goal? > High performance [desktop] photo and video management solution Honestly all I want is - Non destructive library management. No copying and moving files and the library is just “a file” - Exif GPS map with search support (“Photos taken at NYC between 2 and 4pm”) - Automated (AI?) photo tagging

Checkout https://bpatrik.github.io/pigallery2/ . I've been using it for years and it checks all the boxes you're looking for

>self-hosted directory-first photo gallery website

That's not a desktop app, in fact it's pretty much like Immich

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by felixthehat »

haunter wrote: post #36

What’s a good desktop app with the same-ish goal? > High performance [desktop] photo and video management solution Honestly all I want is - Non destructive library management. No copying and moving files and the library is just “a file” - Exif GPS map with search support (“Photos taken at NYC between 2 and 4pm”) - Automated (AI?) photo tagging

Phil Gyford just posted about "Trying out eight macOS alternatives to Lightroom Classic to see if I could switch to one of them." which covers some of those points

https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/09/27/escaping-ligh...

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by teekert »

mmlkrx wrote: post #40

I've been eyeing Immich for an iCloud replacement for some time now, does anybody have practical experience of how it can be used with iOS as the default backup destination for the Photos app instead of iCloud?

I do that, I just enabled backups in the Immich app and there it goes.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by teekert »

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.

The issue you linked was close with a PR 1 hour ago :D

Still not nice, I've always had all of Immich in a ZFS dataset with regular snapshots. Then you can always roll back. I've only had to use it when I wasn't happy with some large import though.

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