Same bro, just became a supporter myself. Worth every dollar!
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Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I
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Edit: This is Immich! for the folks who don't know.
I'm still disappointed that tags are absent from the mobile app.
As someone who only used the stock synology app and has always wanted to try something else, what features and things does this do better? I am close to trying it out just to see. Im sure it will solve my 1 big issue where I can't control the location of photos that default to my application storage, which is pretty small, instead of my actual storage array.
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If it weren't Docker-dependant, I'd imagine this would be a good FreedomBox app.
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One thing I don't get, if someone could explain it to me, is what's the point of immich over e.g. Nextcloud? Immich is just for photo and video, right? Why not just have a cloud file drive instead? To me, I feel like it's a waste to have both, since I use Nextcloud to both sync my PC and as a secondary backup, in which case I'd have two copies of my photos on my home server if I wanted to use Immich as well. Am I missing something or is it for people with different workflows?
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Yup, purchased myself 2 days ago. Absolutely deserve all of the support!
im like maybe one of few people who barely take photos. its great because i dont need to worry about the costs of cloud storage
I've tried Immich, but found my plain SMB shares already did 80% of what ~~immich could do~~ I wanted. The remaining 20% I could do easily with my favorite photo/video viewers (looping, filtering, tagging, location data).
I also hate how it's only a web portal for desktop. There's no native desktop app, and no seamless integration with file browsers, video players, etc.
Maybe I look at it again in a few years
You can setup external libraries with it. So you, say, upload your photos and videos to your SMB Share, point that SMB Share as external Library in Immich and you will get the benefits of Immich while you can browse your Share normally as you would. I mean yes this is a workaround but it works.
Immich sounds great.
Does it have E2EE? I rent a VPS and would prefer personal files that I have on it to be protected.
It is fundamentally built around the files being decrypted in RAM, for all the search features. You can use an encrypted partition for storing the photos and DB, to avoid having plaintext files on disk.
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