Link is a 1h42m video interview between Louis Rossmann, FUTO and Immich developers with a introduction to Immich by Louis.
Immich is an open source self-hosted in-development tool to manage image libraries from a central server, and sync/distribute them across your devices, as an alternative to Google Photos. Also see: https://immich.app
The important news here is that FUTO has funded full time development on Immich for 3 years.
The devs did a Q&A that answer pretty much every question in this comment section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwz2iZwYpgg
I love Immich and we used it for a long time but we eventually switched to Ente Photos simply because Immich’s upload on iOS isn’t really working and it took hours for some members in my family to sync 200 pictures that are being synced within a few minutes on Android. That was frustrating.
With Ente Photos that’s working fine so we decided to make the switch.
2TB is the most space they offer? And at $20/month?
Pass.
I’ve already got the storage I need.
Edit: apparently you can self host (see below)
You can self host Ente. That’s what I’m doing. Basically 40 TB currently on my own server for me and my family for free (besides hardware, time and of course electricity).
The best image gallery software is Nextcloud Memories.
Is it the best or is it just the one you use? Have you used both? Recently? Immich has changed a lot in the past year or two.
IMO just the fact that it’s a NextCloud thing kinda sucks
Louis discusses his experience with Nextcloud in the first portion of the video.
For him, Nextcloud’s gallery app runs much slower than Immich. The Nextcloud app only supports proxy image previews but no proxy video previews, which Immich does.
Memories and Gallery (actually deprecated by photos) are not the same thing, just to clarify. I’m not in a position to agree or disagree with any of the statements here since I’ve never used immich, but I don’t want people to think that the default photo viewer in nextcloud is what was being discussed here.
I don’t think some readers liked this comment. Care to elaborate on how you think memories is better than immich?
I already had nextcloud, never used immach. But I installed memories a few minutes ago, and it seems fast enough. The android app actually works. Truth be told I might still try immach at some point but installing memories was easy to get started with since i already have nextcloud. seems to build on the main in photos app so I’m not too worried about it being a 3rd party addon.
Cool. Don’t know if you replied to the wrong person but this context might be better suited to be a parent comment.
The person I replied to made a claim and I wanted them to back it up. Since you haven’t even tried “immich”, with an I, I’m not sure what you hoped to get out of this interaction.
I read the FUTO website. But it doesn’t say where they get their funding from. Any insight on that?
The founder is a billionaire Eron Wolf and he funds the projects: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwz2iZwYpgg&t=950
That organization is FUTO, founded in 2021 by 18-year Silicon Valley veteran, programmer/founder of Yahoo! Games, and WhatsApp seed investor Eron Wolf.
