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Self-hosting my photos with Immich

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
659 points birdculture | 4 comments | 30 Nov 25 09:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.916s | source
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WD-42 ◴[06 Dec 25 03:02 UTC] No.46170203[source]▶
Self hosting used to mean conceding on something. I can honestly say Immich is better in every way than Google Photos or whatever Apple calls it. The only thing is having to set it up yourself.
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halapro ◴[06 Dec 25 06:34 UTC] No.46171210[source]▶
Does your phone silently and reliably upload all the photos to your server? My guess you're conceding on that part.

How's the offline app support? My full library (30k items) is available on my phone (not in high res). There are a lot more concessions I'm sure.

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1. WD-42 ◴[06 Dec 25 06:46 UTC] No.46171267[source]▶
Yes, it does silently and reliably upload all my photos to my server. That's like, the entire selling point of the app? You even have control over how and when (on wifi or not) and the ability to change hostnames depending on what network you are on. And yes I can browse my entire collection back to 2001 no problem. I have no idea what the offline support is.
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2. palata ◴[06 Dec 25 11:04 UTC] No.46172362[source]▶
That was my selling point for Nextcloud, and it turns out it doesn't work reliably. It works most of the time, but for backing up photos it's not enough, and when it fails it's super annoying (you have to resync EVERYTHING from scratch).

People seem very happy about Immich, I'm tempted to try. But people seem very about Nextcloud as well, so it's difficult to tell.

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3. esseph ◴[06 Dec 25 14:53 UTC] No.46173770[source]▶
Nextcloud is dogshit.

Immich is the best end user focused app I've ever ran in a container.

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4. palata ◴[06 Dec 25 23:36 UTC] No.46177629{3}[source]▶
I find it harsh to call it dogshit. My feeling is that they focus on other use-cases than photo syncing.