• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    I don’t follow the argument you’re trying to make. Immich is fast and simple which fits my requirements where others don’t. If you know of a better alternative, I’m all ears.

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      3 months ago

      Immich recently had a bug where it would delete all the photos if you remove a gallery. It has breaking changes and API changes all the time. Why? I don’t know. You do NOT need to break the API every other minor version, it’s super dumb.

      That makes it impossible to use it with other users because I can’t control how and when their mobile app gets updated, which means at any given time I have no idea if their apps will work with the server version. And when they do work, they’re buggy.

      You can use it just for yourself if you’re very careful but it’s not something I can offer friends or family and promise it’s better than Google Photos or iCloud. Not if it doesn’t work half the time and may delete their photos every once in a while.

      A simple alternative is to use a sync app to upload photos from a person’s phone and then use a reliable (doesn’t break all the time) photo webapp to let them browse them. They can still manage their photos locally, and use other services, and other backups and so on, they just have an extra backup + viewer.

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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        3 months ago

        Yes, I highly recommend not relying on alpha software ever as your daily driver. I never give my photo viewing software write permissions on my images, so there’s never any risk of losing data. And yeah, I’m not directing anyone outside my household to it, so I currently don’t need to worry about servicing a bunch of users.

        The app/webapp mismatch issue has been more annoying that I think it needs to be. I understand the need to make security updates, but breaking compatibility this often is unusual.

        But again, my point is, the money you give them is a donation. If you don’t want to donate, then don’t. There should not be any incentive to get you to donate, besides seeing the project continue.

        • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          If you don’t give immich write access to photos you lose one of their biggest advantages, i.e. having your phone upload the photos directly. So now you need something else like syncthing to do that job, which is not as elegant.