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One of the best pieces of self-hosted software ever to exist.
Edit: This is Immich! for the folks who don't know.
I did the same after they revamped the backup functionality in the app, and it now finally seems to be trustworthy enough as my main method to get my pictures from my phone into the cloud. Could finally cancel my Google subscription as well.
Same bro, just became a supporter myself. Worth every dollar!
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.
Does everything Google photos does. Their app looks/feels exactly Google's app, including sharing links. Assuming you're running it on reasonably powerful hardware, it does all the same face recognition and ML based search that Google photos does.
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?
If it weren't Docker-dependant, I'd imagine this would be a good FreedomBox app.
It's a photo album? I kept hearing about it. I've been using a combo of just plain files, and sometimes nextcloud. Immich sounds like something to look into.
The ML is really good. Google's Face recognition is over-confident sometimes and is difficult to remove the tagged faces and add correct ones. Immich's is very accurate and if it misses something I can just add them — 1 step instead of 2 with Google's.
Certainly, especially because of the search features, social features and the ability to organise your photos, and the nice looking user interface.