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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.
Seriously everyone pushes Immich so hard I'm a little suspicious of it now :D
Edit: all right, all right, I installed it. It has a thing about not uploading all the pictures I give it, some error out. I have a feeling it is due to the library being on a NAS share.
The fediverse is small and the Immich dev is one of our own, not surprising that it's super popular
83k Github stars in under 4 years is definitely indicative of an excellent project
Github stars are indicative of nothing
They are indicative of something. That something is just not always “this project is good”.
Correct: it's like trying to equate "correct" with "popular", and keeping in mind how the last US elections have turned out.
But it's good to be in a big network of other users with the same product, nonetheless.
Thousands of them are indicative
You can just buy them, same way you can buy likes on any other platform. Don't use them as any kind of metric.
You can but if you buy 80k people are gonna investigate and will easily find out you did. Stars are public. I have a folder on my computer with a dataset of 90% of all stars on github
It's crazy good for something FREE. Like infinitely better than any major crop google apple etc because you KEEP your photos. Anything you upload to the cloud is being mined by them.
The only thing I tell people is that you need a cloud backup.
I have an automated nightly worker that zips all my photos encrypts them with a 32 character password and then uploads it to a bulk storage facility.
I do something similar using restic to encrypt, deduplicate, and backup my photos to backblaze every now and then. Out of curiosity, any particular reason you choose zip over something like restic?
I use restic too, just said zip since more people might understand it easier
Ah, got you!
Any suggestions and estimate pricing?
I use backblaze it's like $3 a month or something
Agree, backblaze has been great
Wasabi is a very affordable destination for backups. And it has the advantage of not being one of the big three.
I use backblaze, $6/TB/mo. i set it up with restic backups to get my storage usage so low, that I've used it for 4 months and haven't paid yet.
Yeah. I just put the media location on my nas, and that is being mirrored to hetzner.
It's just that good
Shhhh! No one can no we are all being played by the immich overlords.
Yeah :) Maybe give lychee a try :) it's minimalist and does one thing, but it does it well !!!
I found it a couple of months ago without hearing about it before. I was in an ideal place for a Google Photos replacement.
There's a couple of rough edges but it is, indeed, best-of-class.
As a newbie in selfhosting, Immich is what I use almost every day. And it is so good. A literal Google Photos but it's my own. Snappy web app and android app. Has epic face recognition, contextual search and now even text recognition. All that on an efficient and not so powerful N100 cpu. I can totally see why community loves it.