cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/foss@beehaw.org/t/1225798

After: ~1,337 days, 271 releases, 78,000 stars on GitHub, 1,558 contributors, 31,500 members on Discord, 36,000 members on Reddit, 68 languages on Weblate, Surviving the controversial announcement about joining FUTO, Having overwhelming success and support from the community with the product keys model, Launching the Merch store, Attending our first FOSDEM, ...and before the release of GTA VI We are thrilled to announce the stable release of Immich! πŸŽ‰

I'm really excited about such a large project adopting semver! I never got the trend for software without a need for rapid release cycles adopting purely time-based version numbers.

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[–] 98 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] 71 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    We aim to introduce additional paid services (not paywalled features, as we will never implement paywalled features), which will help support the project and that enhance self-hosting, making it easier and more reliable. First among the many services already planned is an end-to-end encrypted, off-site backup and restore feature, built directly into Immich. This will enable a buddy backup feature as well.

    I love this.

    Free features, but offering actual useful services for self-hosters (encrypted cloud backup). Great business model for a project like this.

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    [–] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Awesome! But damn, I just installed v1.144.1 last night to play around with it. 😁

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    The absolute irony... I've used Immich for nearly 2 years without fail; it's never skipped a beat. Today I update to the stable release and my Immich mobile app now has a sync error warning. This is the first issue I've ever had.

    EDIT: Phew! Clear File Cache in mobile app has sorted the error. For a moment I thought the universe was against me.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Yahoo! Congrats to the Immich teams and developers!

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I really like where immich is headed. Bought a license last week and finally deleted Google Photos.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Ooh this is great news! I guess it was both an entertaining experience and a chore at the same time bumping the server version every once in a while to keep the mobile app functioning.

    Huge props to the team, it's one of the best pieces of software I've used in quite some time.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    God damnit, now I need to set up k8s and install it.

    I've been putting off moving out of Google photos for years. No, no, I shouldn't spend the time to host it. It has that scary banner.

    Way to ruin my weekend! /s

    Congrats Immich Team! /and if you're listening, thanks!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    K8s prob overkill if it's just you and your family

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    K8s is pretty cheap for fault tolerance

    Two VM's and two Pi

    If my wife decides whe wants to watch the wedding video or the kids first TKD break and it's down, she'll clamor to move back to Google/Apple. I can also move my piholes over there and some of my arr stack.

    Resillient hosting for zero cost is pretty hot.

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Does Immich still require you to store all user photos into the same central directory?

    I can’t move my family from Synology’s offering until I can be sure each users photos will be backed up to their own accessible drive.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hopefully they improved face tagging. I can't work out how to add a new person's name.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    How does this compare with Ente?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    it gets to be in sleep mode for 8-10 hours once or twice per day, which I'd assume is better for its life expectancy.

    It's actually the opposite.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Spinning up and down puts parts under more stress than simply spinning constantly, assuming vibrations are minimal. Basically repeated changes in velocity are bad for mechanical parts, compared to just spinning at a constant rate.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hard drives are so variable and failures so unpredictable, I bet you can't find that information. Most of the actual data about hard drive failures, like Backblaze's reports, are for drives that don't spin down.

    That said, spin-down has always been used for saving power, not drive lifetime. I would generally assume spinning down never extends lifetime. Even in the case of an external hard drive you plug in once a month - it is very likely going to fail earlier than the drive spinning 24x7.

    Also, I wouldn't shy from keeping the database on the same, fast storage as the OS, even if that's flash. Move to an external SSD when you can. HDDs have such long seek times.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    A couple of questions for those who have used it. Does it back up the video snippet portion of the live photos? Does it have webdav support so I can backup to pcloud? Can it backup to multiple places, like my local harddisk and the pcloud storage?

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    Don't think it has WebDAV support but you can use rsync to back up to pcloud. That's how I handle it.

    Also, by default when you upload files to Immich it creates it's own directory structure but they have Storage Templates you can enable/customize to make it more human readable so the backups are more useful if looking at them without Immich.

    Another option of you want more control over the directories themselves is External Libraries... but I don't believe uploading works with them, so you'd have to manually manage them outside of Immich (which kind of defeats the purpose IMO)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm excited for the roadmap of better sharing, group management and improved ownership. Unfortunately in its current state having a shared "family" library of pictures next to personal pictures is only possible with various workarounds (and all of those have significant downsides). Until then I'm just using it for myself, but it's been great so far.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    "High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution."

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Why are their official communities on Reddit and Discord? Why not a Mastodon or Lemmy community?

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