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FUTO funds Immich with 3 year commitment: the best image gallery software (youtu.be)

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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.

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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

I read the FUTO website. But it doesn't say where they get their funding from. Any insight on that?

[-] Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 2 weeks ago

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.

(https://futo.org/what-is-futo/)

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 2 weeks ago

I got an Orange Pi 5+ for Immich (pi 4 [4GB] was struggling with the ML features enabled).

Immich is awesome!

[-] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

Always good to hear such news.

Maybe here somebody can help me with a related question: I'm so far just using nextcloud to have my photos somewhere safe but wanted to move to another solution for a while. So far I have only really looked into photoprism, but some problems prevented me to change.

So my first question is: can somebody sum up a comparison between immich and photoprism?

And second is the same just focused on my prior problems: I have a lot of very old (scanned) photos which are hardly sorted, duplicated and so on. Further I have an album of rather decent photos (my own wedding) in which the photographer didn't include any exif data which is relevant for me (particularly coordinates and creation date, without that they are just completely unsorted on the database). In photoprism I did not find a good way to fix those meta data in bulk and need to do it before I import them, so if I miss something I need to delete them from photoprism and start over (which is also struggling). Is this solved better?

In general I would love if such a tool had some kind of import staging. So my phone uploads the photos and they are safely backed up, but I need to approve them to be included in the overall library. This feature I would like because I often make photos of things I don't need more then ten minutes.

Best wishes

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago

Photoprism is straight trash next to Immich. Not to mention the required fee just to upload photos to YOUR cloud...

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

I hope someone can help you with this. Maybe you need to make a post disguised as a tutorial, setting it up incorrectly and have someone correct you :P

[-] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Great idea, thanks xD

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 6 points 2 weeks ago

The devs did a Q&A that answer pretty much every question in this comment section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwz2iZwYpgg

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

Did they talk about what features and improvements are planned?

[-] Elkenders@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'd love better import and duplicate detection features. I might even wait to see what comes of this before I import the bulk of my library. I've already invested my Google Photos and my phone but the majority of that can be replaced by higher quality photos in my iPhoto library.

[-] brayd@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

2TB is the most space they offer? And at $20/month?

Pass.

I’ve already got the storage I need.

https://ente.io/

Edit: apparently you can self host (see below)

[-] brayd@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

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).

https://help.ente.io/self-hosting/

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. Hopefully this grant can give Immich the TLC it needs to address its current shortcomings.

[-] brayd@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

Agree. At least they already know about this and told they want to address it in the future.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Does anyone happen to know how this compares to Photoprism?

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online -1 points 2 weeks ago

Eh, what does this have over shotwell?

[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago

If this is a serious comment, a lot.

Immich is server based with a webUI, multi user support, has automatic backup from your devices, with face tagging and object tagging.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, then its like apples and oranges.

[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, shotwell looks good if you're a single user and already have all your images stored locally, although if you wanted face tagging DigiKam is also a local only photo management app that does some more advanced stuff.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah that's definitely something I don't want

[+] delightfuldude@lemmy.criticalbasics.xyz -19 points 2 weeks ago

The best image gallery software is Nextcloud Memories.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] huquad@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

Having used both, immich wins by a landslide. I was initially waiting until it got to a stable release, but it's already so much better. I'd recommend anyone to just use immich.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] mranderson17@infosec.pub 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] saddlebag@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t think some readers liked this comment. Care to elaborate on how you think memories is better than immich?

[-] rusty@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] saddlebag@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] rusty@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

Good point maybe where I should start is why I never moved to immich in the first place. I have a digital camera as well as a phone, somr photos I process on my workstation. It has the nextcloud app syncing images so I can update files easily using photo editing programs on my workstation. This setup works well for me. I don't really want to move away from nextcloud if I don't need to.

Moving to immich looks like I either change my existing process or I use and external album since there is no nextcloud adapter.

The external album setup looked like more work and since I already have nextcloud making it work slightly better for storing photos is a more appealing solution for the time being

[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nextcloud is so slow though, I just wish they would fix the performance of it. Taking 2+ seconds to load a file browser is crazy.

NC has also had some major data loss/corruption bugs I've been hit with, I switched away from it because I was tired of the bugs.

[-] kureta@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

It actually looks great. I'm surprised to see that to be honest. But I use next cloud only as an alternative to Google drive. I find most of the times I can't make apps work and risk breaking my next cloud installation. But if it works for you, awesome 👍