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FUTO funds Immich with 3 year commitment: the best image gallery software

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.

Louis Rossmann @lemmy.world jimmydoreisalefty @lemmy.world 6mo ago

01:42:22 | May 10 24 | Louis Rossmann

FUTO funds Immich with 3 year commitment: the best image gallery software

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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.
  
  (https://futo.org/what-is-futo/)
  
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I got an Orange Pi 5+ for Immich (pi 4 [4GB] was struggling with the ML features enabled).

Immich is awesome!
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
- 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
  
  Great idea, thanks xD
The devs did a Q&A that answer pretty much every question in this comment section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwz2iZwYpgg
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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.
  
  https://ente.io/
  
  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).
  
  https://help.ente.io/self-hosting/
- Yeah. Hopefully this grant can give Immich the TLC it needs to address its current shortcomings.
  
  Agree. At least they already know about this and told they want to address it in the future.
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Does anyone happen to know how this compares to Photoprism?
Eh, what does this have over shotwell?
- 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.
  
  Ah, then its like apples and oranges.
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 👍

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