Chosing the right photo app for my family

So, Immich vs Ente, this is my last piece of the selfhosted puzzle. Please help me make an informed decision:

Immich

on the plus side, it seems to have more features and it has a gazillion integrations with other selfhosted software. Downside: breaking changes are fairly common AFAIK.

Ente

looks like the opposite, more mature, scoped and less integrated.

Am I reading this right? Am I missing something?

Edit: Thanks everyone, I'm going with immich!

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[-] Svinhufvud@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

V3 is stable. It is the new version after V2. V1 was where the majoriry of the breaking changes happened.

[-] Muehe@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

No, v3 is a release with breaking changes:

This release includes several breaking changes; read the full migration guide here. It's worth mentioning that many of the breaking changes are updates to API endpoints and only affect third-party tools that integrate with Immich's API. For the vast majority of users, updating works exactly as it always has.

https://immich.app/blog/v3.0.0-release

That's why the major version was increased, it implies breaking changes in semantic versioning, which Immich is doing since v2 apparently:

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes

MINOR version when you add functionality in a backward compatible manner

PATCH version when you make backward compatible bug fixes

https://semver.org/

[-] Svinhufvud@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

Yes, between major releases there can be breaking changes. But within there wont be, which is what I was referring to. In "V1" we didn't have such a guarantee.

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