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Self-hosting my photos with Immich

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
659 points birdculture | 3 comments | 30 Nov 25 09:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | 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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euleriancon ◴[06 Dec 25 05:04 UTC] No.46170879[source]▶
There are still some features that a miss from Google photos. There isn't any way (that I know of) to auto add pictures to an album based on the face. I used to have dedicated albums for family members, and it was nice to have the auto updated.

Face recognition in general just isn't as good as Google Photos.

It's still an amazing piece of software and I'd never go back, but it isn't perfect yet.

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1. WD-42 ◴[06 Dec 25 07:00 UTC] No.46171312[source]▶
The /people page looks a lot like albums based on face to me, is that not what you are talking about?
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2. j_bum ◴[06 Dec 25 07:21 UTC] No.46171391[source]▶
It seems like he’s saying that he could create an album and add a rule saying “add all pictures of John and Jan”
3. zeendo ◴[06 Dec 25 14:20 UTC] No.46173557[source]▶
Not who you're replying to, but no - this isn't the same. You can't share that album with others. Or have others collaborate on it.

You can do this with a few scripts and the Immich API - but that's not something the average user will do.