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Re: Immich 3.0

#11

Post by nickthegreek »

phikappa wrote: post #2

There's a lot of things I spent a ton of time setting up, use once, and then never again. Tons of things that are easy to set up, and provide small benefits every day for a long time. Immich has got to be the thing that I've spent ages setting up, use extremely infrequently but the one time a year I use it I'm so happy I did. Great software.

Man, I wish my experience was as nice. I used the proxmox lxc for it and after a 2 months of organizing I had some corruption and didn't have the fortitude to get through the debugging. It might have been related to a big version migration if I remember correctly. It turned me off the stack. The upgrading wasn't as turnkey as I wanted it to be and I dont think the case is different today.

I just want to be able to organize my folders outside of some dumb library system and immich at the time fought that as well.

Re: Immich 3.0

#12

Post by MohamedMabrouk »

Immich is an amazing software. I use it regularly as an alternative along side Google photos. I keep in it large videos that I wouldn't upload normally to Google photos + the snappy experience at home vs Cloud-Bades solution.

Re: Immich 3.0

#13

Post by gonzalohm »

Jhsto wrote: post #9
DavideNL wrote: post #4

I don't want yet another self hosted service to manage (update, backups, possible hardware failures, energy costs, ups, etc.). Unfortunately Immich is not end-to-end encrypted. If that would have be the case i'd use https://pixelunion.eu/ Seems like a great app though. So... i'm still pondering what to do :-)

You can use https://ente.com/ (it's open-source). It also makes the seemingly much better decision of storing photos in S3.

The point of Immich is self hosting. Using AWS defeats that purpose

Re: Immich 3.0

#14

Post by gonzalohm »

DavideNL wrote: post #4

I don't want yet another self hosted service to manage (update, backups, possible hardware failures, energy costs, ups, etc.). Unfortunately Immich is not end-to-end encrypted. If that would have be the case i'd use https://pixelunion.eu/ Seems like a great app though. So... i'm still pondering what to do :-)

So if you don't want a self hosted service there are tons of cloud providers. Google photos, iCloud, etc. Some people don't want to pay a monthly fee to store their photos or don't want to risk losing something with sentimental value just because a company decides to ban you

Re: Immich 3.0

#15

Post by buster »

Jhsto wrote: post #9
DavideNL wrote: post #4

I don't want yet another self hosted service to manage (update, backups, possible hardware failures, energy costs, ups, etc.). Unfortunately Immich is not end-to-end encrypted. If that would have be the case i'd use https://pixelunion.eu/ Seems like a great app though. So... i'm still pondering what to do :-)

You can use https://ente.com/ (it's open-source). It also makes the seemingly much better decision of storing photos in S3.

+1 for Ente. Replaced Google photos for me

Re: Immich 3.0

#16

Post by bo0tzz »

mopsi wrote: post #10
zyberzero wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, at least for a year. There is a ”external library” feature, I think that does what you want.

Thank you! That was not available the last time I checked.

It's been available for nearly three years

Re: Immich 3.0

#17

Post by fragmede »

gonzalohm wrote: post #13
Jhsto wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use https://ente.com/ (it's open-source). It also makes the seemingly much better decision of storing photos in S3.

The point of Immich is self hosting. Using AWS defeats that purpose

Perfect is the enemy of the good. While there's an ideal case where you're hosting it on a box in your house, that's not for everybody. So while hosting it on AWS doesn't remove every dependency on big tech, at least it's not a full on Google hosted SaaS product.

Re: Immich 3.0

#18

Post by altran1502 »

nickthegreek wrote: post #11
phikappa wrote: post #2

There's a lot of things I spent a ton of time setting up, use once, and then never again. Tons of things that are easy to set up, and provide small benefits every day for a long time. Immich has got to be the thing that I've spent ages setting up, use extremely infrequently but the one time a year I use it I'm so happy I did. Great software.

Man, I wish my experience was as nice. I used the proxmox lxc for it and after a 2 months of organizing I had some corruption and didn't have the fortitude to get through the debugging. It might have been related to a big version migration if I remember correctly. It turned me off the stack. The upgrading wasn't as turnkey as I wanted it to be and I dont think the case is different today. I just want to be able to or…

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Re: Immich 3.0

#19

Post by ravenstine »

nickthegreek wrote: post #11
phikappa wrote: post #2

There's a lot of things I spent a ton of time setting up, use once, and then never again. Tons of things that are easy to set up, and provide small benefits every day for a long time. Immich has got to be the thing that I've spent ages setting up, use extremely infrequently but the one time a year I use it I'm so happy I did. Great software.

Man, I wish my experience was as nice. I used the proxmox lxc for it and after a 2 months of organizing I had some corruption and didn't have the fortitude to get through the debugging. It might have been related to a big version migration if I remember correctly. It turned me off the stack. The upgrading wasn't as turnkey as I wanted it to be and I dont think the case is different today. I just want to be able to or…

I'm not sure I will ever upgrade Immich again. When I upgraded to the next minor version (I forget which off the top of my head), the data migration corrupted my database such that no images would be served. Fortunately I had the old database backed up, so I restored it, rolled back to the older version of Immich, and things were back to normal. I like Immich, but this is not good for software that's beyond the first major version, and also handles archiving people's personal data.

Re: Immich 3.0

#20

Post by jasonvorhe »

gonzalohm wrote: post #13
Jhsto wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use https://ente.com/ (it's open-source). It also makes the seemingly much better decision of storing photos in S3.

The point of Immich is self hosting. Using AWS defeats that purpose

S3 has many open implementations you can self host. Some are quite lean even. Unless you need really complex IAM stuff it's a solid and rather simple experience to run it.
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