Long-time photo management veteran and users weigh in on Immich itself
4 Sep 21 1:11 PM · 2d ago · 4 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 5
Commenters with extensive photo-management or migration experience discuss Immich's real-world use, including successful Google Takeout migrations and self-hosting setups, separate from the Noodle fork debate.
“I've refused to settle for most solutions in this space.”
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I know this post is about Noodle, but I want to talk about Immich.I believe I've spent, perhaps, the most time of anyone on earth on digital photo management (hard to quantify, but since 2005 - 2 startups, one acquisition, and an ongoing open source project used by thousands).I say that because I've refused to settle for most solutions in this…
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Was there a reason these features were not accepted to upstream Immich and needed to be in a fork?Looking at the latest commits, Noodle Galery has many signed with Claude, but Immich doesn't. Is LLM policy a reason for fork? (Just speculating, I don't know.)UPD: Immich has this in CONTRIBUTING.md, seems like its LLM policy is more strict:> We ask…
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>But man is it remarkable that an open source project can rival something from Google in terms of quality and experience.I'd argue Google is always way worse than the open source alternative in both quality and ux. Their products are terrible. From Gmail to Youtube, the product itself comes second (or Nth), while in open source the product is…
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Why is the link to a (seemingly) AI summary?Their page: https://opennoodle.deTheir GitHub:
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As someone looking to exfiltrate my photos from Google, I'm about to trial Immich, and I really appreciate you sharing your experience. Sounds like it's a good next step for me.
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