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Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by eviks »

dangus wrote: post #150
eviks wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Your mistaken point is easy to get, but you don't get the counter argument that the relevant pricing here is that of, for example, VPS, which haven't scaled as much in memory availability as your cited consumer examples, so the constraints are still there.

> will consume compute resources

This is an empty statement, the argument here is about the amount of resources and how it relates to the underlying technology.

And all this "biggest multinational scale" is just as meaningless, no specific resource requirement follows from that (maybe a big part of that $100 is exactly because of "big multi scale")

> News flash, when you query ChatGPT,

News flash, this is not chatGPT. Another news is that different models have very different memory requirements. Also, do you know that those requirements are only due to the models?

So again, your example doesn't help provide any justification.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by InsideOutSanta »

darkest_ruby wrote: post #149
InsideOutSanta wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Immich has documentation here: https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/

All relevant files are stored in your UPLOAD_LOCATION which you defined in your .env file (if you deployed immich via Docker Compose). The files you absolutely need to back up are in:

- UPLOAD_LOCATION/upload ← Contains your images

- UPLOAD_LOCATION/backups ← Contains your postgres dumps

You should also back up these two directories:

- UPLOAD_LOCATION/library

- UPLOAD_LOCATION/profile

They're not strictly necessary, but it makes it easier to restore the same setup.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by darkest_ruby »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #152
darkest_ruby wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Immich has documentation here: https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/ All relevant files are stored in your UPLOAD_LOCATION which you defined in your .env file (if you deployed immich via Docker Compose). The files you absolutely need to back up are in: - UPLOAD_LOCATION/upload ← Contains your images - UPLOAD_LOCATION/backups ← Contains your postgres dumps You should also back up these two directo…

Thank you, that's very useful

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by pxc »

lpln3452 wrote: post #145
pxc wrote: post #130

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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.

At least in the thread linked here, it seems like his maintainership over the project is legitimate, which makes it wrong to characterize him as "forcing" his ways on anyone.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by lpln3452 »

pxc wrote: post #154
lpln3452 wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

At least in the thread linked here, it seems like his maintainership over the project is legitimate, which makes it wrong to characterize him as "forcing" his ways on anyone.

Even ignoring that examples of his behavior are easily found elsewhere, the link itself shows him completely disregarding feedback from other contributors to force his own way.

Honestly, I can't understand the intent behind such a defensive rebuttal to the criticism of his actions.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by iv11 »

blacklion wrote: post #93

Immich is good to replace google photos or even Lightroom Library, but it is bad to replace Flickr. Does anybody know self-hosting solution to have nice site to show off selected photos? No authorization and users for viewers, no "share" links, but photostream, albums, tags, way to see one photo full-screen. With minimal "chrome" like Flickr can do. It doesn't need to have photo-organization things, object recognitio…

I've built something for exactly this purpose, but never made it public cause I thought it's not something interesting. One of my websites, https://slapstickers.org/, is just a frontend for an immich instance that I host where I upload my photos. Maybe I should make it public, but the code needs some cleanup, it's pretty messy.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by pxc »

lpln3452 wrote: post #155
pxc wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least in the thread linked here, it seems like his maintainership over the project is legitimate, which makes it wrong to characterize him as "forcing" his ways on anyone.

Even ignoring that examples of his behavior are easily found elsewhere, the link itself shows him completely disregarding feedback from other contributors to force his own way. Honestly, I can't understand the intent behind such a defensive rebuttal to the criticism of his actions.

I don't care one way or another. I'm not a JS developer. I'm just struck by a reaction that seems quite extreme, and very visible dogpiling.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by lpln3452 »

pxc wrote: post #158
lpln3452 wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even ignoring that examples of his behavior are easily found elsewhere, the link itself shows him completely disregarding feedback from other contributors to force his own way. Honestly, I can't understand the intent behind such a defensive rebuttal to the criticism of his actions.

I don't care one way or another. I'm not a JS developer. I'm just struck by a reaction that seems quite extreme, and very visible dogpiling.

My point wasn't about javascript. He got pushback because he ignored everyone and just did his own thing. It has nothing to do with javascript and you can see that in the link. That's a weird excuse.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by toastal »

mafro wrote: post #50
toastal wrote: post #37

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This comment feels like a troll. I'm sure you are aware that: - Most open source projects on the Internet are on Github. One could argue Github itself has taken a significant role in the growth of OSS in the last decade - Using Discord is totally du jour for open source communities in 2025 - Reddit is still the biggest discussion forum on the Internet. Including discussion about open source

Not a troll.

The normal, uninitiated folk don’t know any better about their choices of technology & what that means for our private data & autonomy. We have seen this song & dance of getting locked into shitty platforms like Slack, but projects are repeating history when they know better. Why not just tell folks to use Google & Apple Photos or Facebook? If you can see the advantage of your FOSS project & how it protects users, the same should apply to your own tech choices. If you want to maintain broad appeal for some reason instead of actually introducing them to other FOSS tech that would also be good for user, it might be a bit hypocritical tho understandable to have these channels open, maybe even official—but to make these the only option? Not a gateway/bridge? No mirrors? No email to send patches? Not cool.

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