What does HackerNews think of immich?

Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically? | Sep 2023

I started using Google photos first but then stopped using it after I found out that they completely lock you in and you can't really export all your photos seamlessly while still having the time stamps. Now I have all of my photos on onedrive but will migrate to immich in a few months. Open source and selfhosted btw. https://github.com/immich-app/immich

PhotoPrism: Browse Your Life in Pictures | Jul 2023

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I used PhotoPrism some time ago when it was slightly less featured, but wasn't satisfied with it. The dealbreaker for me is auto mobile backup. PhotoPrism relies on a third party app to "sync" photos, which isn't the same as backing them up. With that said, PhotoPrism is all the rage in the self-hosting community and I can definitely see why.

Conversely, Synology Photos (which I use instead now) has a fantastic mobile app. However, if you really want reliable and granular object/face recognition, the Syno app is a little bare bones. It does some face recog but that's really it. However, its backup feature is reliable and I don't have to worry about if it's working in the background or not. I tried Nextcloud's photo plugin for a while too, but its mobile app had issues and I just couldn't rely on it.

Another project I've been keeping my eye on is immich: https://github.com/immich-app/immich

I'm happy for now with Syno Photos but it would be nice to have my photo app in my container environment with everything else I run and just use the NAS for media storage like I intended to.

Ask HN: Convenient way of getting camera photos to your computer? | May 2023

https://github.com/immich-app/immich is getting there!

Amazon Photos just ate 240,364 of my photos | Mar 2023

Use Immich OP: https://github.com/immich-app/immich

Photoprism – open-source Google Photos Alternative | Feb 2023

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I will add immich which has been getting good development lately.

https://immich.app/

https://github.com/immich-app/immich

Ask HN: Just got a brand new server, what do I do first? | Feb 2023

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Oh yes, thank you! Thinking of using https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ for my server backups and https://github.com/immich-app/immich for my photos and videos. Any x-platform solutions you may be aware of?

Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...? | Jan 2023

For backing up photos I highly recommend immich. It is a self hosted google photos replacement under active developement.

https://github.com/immich-app/immich

Ask HN: What not-profit-seeking project are you tinkering with this week? | Oct 2022

Immich, a self hosted replacement for Google photos https://github.com/immich-app/immich

It's got a way to go to be a full replacement but it's already got a lot of the features and can handle huge amounts of images and videos.

It's fully open source and not for profit, if you also don't like our Google overlords having all your data, give it a try!