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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 d3vnull »

binaryturtle wrote: post #68

I read that announcement and I have zero idea what this "immich" app (?) is. How about adding some short introduction text explaining what the thing is for folks just discovering this thing via a HN link (w/o forcing them to click further or digging the information from somewhere else)?

That post complaining about lack of context took longer than typping "immich" into duck duck go and reading the single sentence that pops up at the top describing exactly what immich is. ----------- Immich Immich is a project that lets you back up, organize, and manage your photos and videos on your own server. It is under active development and available under GNU AGPL v3 license.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by d3vnull »

diimdeep wrote: post #84
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?

It is ridiculous bloat of "high level technobabble" npm install for web/ server/ % cloc . 81808 text files. 51415 unique files. Language files blank comment code --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JavaScript 25050 453101 913671 4436663 TypeScript 14997 85346 630503 831318 JSON 2238 168 0 457435 Perl 233 10541 34463 293957 Markdown 1977 89859 1551 234399 Dart 1257 2…

QEMU has been in development for decades.

I'll take the high level language developed solution that I can use now over a low level language version that would reach feature parity with this 10 years from now.

Speed of development is a feature.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by eviks »

dangus wrote: post #90
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?

I hope you slept well in your cryo-chamber, Austin Powers. It’s the year 2025, 6GB of RAM is not a lot. A stick of 32GB of RAM costs about $50. Most simple telephones come with 8GB of RAM.

Are you going to host this app on a simple telephone?

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by Chilko »

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

I've been using Mylio on my laptop which might suit you? My main requirement was that I organise photos using my file structure for maximum portability, and this works well with that.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by lpln3452 »

pxc wrote: post #130
12345hn6789 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ljharb is also conveniently paid per download. His actions border on malicious especially when viewing from a supply chain attack angle. https://github.com/A11yance/axobject-query/pull/354#issuecom...

It definitely feels a bit strange and potentially alarming, but after reading through that whole thread he ultimately seems like a sincere person doing work that he thinks matters, now getting dogpiled for it.

If he had kept his strange and alarming behavior to himself, he wouldn't be 'getting dogpiled' for it now.

The problem is that he's forcing his ways on others. If we're identifying an aggressor here, it's him. The project maintainers are the victims.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by Barbing »

jadbox wrote: post #115
Barbing wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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 l…

Did you ever get access to Gmail/fi again after the incident?? The article said the two cases, at time of writing, still had not gained access to their account again even after they were cleared.

Sorry! By "waiting with bated breath" I sarcastically meant they'd be eager to report me in the _hypothetical case_ I took a photo as reported! Glad we both feel for that poor dad.

...especially cause he's stuck with Yahoo (actually do remember that detail from the story, and that people give him a hard time for it)

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by Barbing »

tecleandor wrote: post #42
Barbing wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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 l…

OMG, I'm so sorry for that. That's terrible.

oof a hypothetical my bad! ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458560 )

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by darkest_ruby »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #26
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 dum…

Can you pls share the paths of folders to be backed up?, especially the raw image files

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by dangus »

eviks wrote: post #143
dangus wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope you slept well in your cryo-chamber, Austin Powers. It’s the year 2025, 6GB of RAM is not a lot. A stick of 32GB of RAM costs about $50. Most simple telephones come with 8GB of RAM.

Are you going to host this app on a simple telephone?

You get my point. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that replacing a massively scaled $100+/year photo/video hosting service offered by the biggest multinational companies in the world will consume compute resources.

You are either consuming your own server’s resources or you’re paying Apple/Google/someone else to handle it for you.

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