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comment by justsomehuman · 2026-10-08 · in Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

…and run the iPhone app to back up my photos. I used this guide [0] for the initial import. [0]: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/21251

comment by nodar86 · 2026-09-17 · in Backups Aren't Simple

Great work! Would it be difficult to extend https://github.com/immich-app/immich with this capability?

comment by toomuchtodo · 2026-09-10 · in Automating culling – 3,478 RAW photos with 977 vision calls

Docs for context: https://docs.immich.app/features/mobile-backup/ https://github.com/immich-app/immich

comment by toomuchtodo · 2026-09-02 · in Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage

> Upload asset directly to album on the mobile app Does this fix this problem? https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/12748 It's a pretty big issue for me having multiple devices and multiple people who want to pool pictures of…

comment by firen777 · 2026-07-03 · in Immich 3.0

…of a virtual machine: usually it happens automatically. Of course this topic has been discussed: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1683

comment by _flux · 2026-07-03 · in Immich 3.0

…requests above 100MiB, which makes it impossible to upload long videos. This is being addressed in https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/22385

comment by 1una · 2026-07-03 · in Immich 3.0

maybe I fail to see your point, but following the link, then https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/5068 is referenced which is resolved by pr https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/18878 adding bulk download functionality…

comment by wsor4035 · 2026-07-02 · in Immich 3.0

…There is no "download all" anywhere, best way is to go to the server and get raw files from there. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/14365

comment by ivanjermakov · 2026-07-02 · in Immich 3.0

…of his free time on a big feature. Well structured + tested. Dismissed just because AI was used. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/23745#discu...

comment by vanrohan · 2026-04-02 · in r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming

…do this by adding 50 extra package dependencies to your project, which are maintained by them. > https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/10690

comment by g947o · 2026-03-22 · in The three pillars of JavaScript bloat

Could be worth checking out: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/24931

comment by messe · 2026-03-16 · in Why I love FreeBSD

…judging? (oh noes, he blame them so he must be bad!) [1] https://szmarczak.com/immich.png [2] https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/25283 > you’ll will make your life about going after me accusing me of who knows what I have never…

comment by szmarczak · 2026-02-24 · in VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]

…use it in read only mode though and sync my photos using PhotoSync rather than rely on the app. [0] https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/17576

comment by gingerlime · 2026-01-31 · in My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)

Do you have WebGL disabled or is WebGL not working? https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/24581

comment by mmastrac · 2026-01-31 · in My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)

What are you talking about. It’s literally open source. Here’s the server code https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/main/server You run the server. You can make the entire thing e2e encrypted if you want. You could even set it up so…

comment by snowe2010 · 2025-12-13 · in Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

…the original run. since you're at least a few months behind though, do check for breaking changes: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions?discussions... they've pretty consistently had instructions, but you unfortunately mostly…

comment by Groxx · 2025-12-06 · in Self-hosting my photos with Immich

Not in every way. Seems it has issues with Ultra HDR ( https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/23094 )

comment by realharo · 2025-12-06 · in Self-hosting my photos with Immich

Have you heard of https://github.com/immich-app/immich ?

comment by Mraedis · 2025-11-17 · in Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

Immich is supposed to solve this nowadays: https://github.com/immich-app/immich

comment by flancian · 2025-10-12 · in Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

…[1], that looks pretty accurate. Practically no changes other than now calling it stable. [1] https://github.com/immich-app/immich/compare/v1.144.1...v2.0...

comment by Vinnl · 2025-10-02 · in Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

…great detail but v2.0.0 only lists a few bug fixes and beyond that just refers to the git history: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v2.0.0

comment by codethief · 2025-10-02 · in Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

…longer it's been around, the longer it will continue to be around). I see about 7 big contributors: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/graphs/contributors . I think most of them work for/are sponsored by FUTO:…

comment by oblio · 2025-10-02 · in Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

…bugs, I've seen some issues reported on github with losing data, like this one on the mobile app. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/21936 Not sure what to say, could be a very very rare edge case, but it's not very reassuring.

comment by dsego · 2025-10-02 · in Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

…in milliseconds and will therefor round up/down. So 1ms errors are just within its tolerance. [0]: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/20655 [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Performance...

comment by whilenot-dev · 2025-10-02 · in Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

It apparently doesn't support that: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/4341 This article just highlights how hard it is to make optional offline applications. I feel like there should be a database-level solution to all this…

comment by Ciantic · 2025-09-26 · in Immich mobile app sync V2

Unfortunately it seems to still be lacking HDR images support ( https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/7262 ) if you care about that or not.

comment by kllrnohj · 2025-09-23 · in Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

…but the search feature is dismal and still falls short of any other major image hosting provider: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/8377 The way that semantic search works, they don't cap a relevance score (since it's all…

comment by Rhubarrbb · 2025-09-09 · in Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

…software supply chain story seems like a car crash, with dependency bumps needed every few days: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/commits/main/server/pac... I'm keen to use it as soon as the dependency story is mature (eg. it is…

comment by rlpb · 2025-09-08 · in Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

…do not require a server with GPU access, performance is fine on my by now rather aged DL380 G7. [1] https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/18763/commits/fe7a...

comment by hagbard_c · 2025-09-08 · in Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

ok but this one is not cursed tho ( https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/11268 ) its valid privacy and security on how mobile OS handle permission

comment by tonyhart7 · 2025-08-08 · in Cursed Knowledge

…for years and seems to be the main one[2] 05/26/23(?) Datetimes in EXIF metadata are cursed [0] https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/2581 [1] https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/6623 [2]…

comment by godelski · 2025-08-08 · in Cursed Knowledge

Immich uses SvelteKit for its frontend: https://github.com/immich-app/immich I’ve used it as a reference for a NestJS+SvelteKit app in the past, they did a pretty good job.

comment by tjhorner · 2024-10-19 · in Svelte 5 Released

The true alternative to Photos is Immich: https://github.com/immich-app/immich . Anything that someone else hosts is not in any way "private".

comment by ein0p · 2024-09-28 · in Mozilla grants Ente- a private Google Photos alternative- $100k

Not entirely what you're looking for, but https://github.com/immich-app/immich has worked well for me, running on my own server.

comment by j_h_o · 2024-09-20 · in Updates to the Google Photos API: Read-Only Scopes Deprecated

https://github.com/immich-app/immich

comment by fhk · 2024-07-05 · in Ask HN: Best alternatives to iCloud Photos in 2024?

https://github.com/immich-app/immich

comment by barbazoo · 2024-05-21 · in Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos

…for Immich, it's been cool watching their development journey on /r/selfhosted the last year or so: https://github.com/immich-app/immich

comment by lenova · 2024-05-16 · in Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone

…server all clients have to be on the latest version, at least since the last time I used Immich. 1. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1678

comment by talhah · 2024-03-21 · in Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance

…https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad Immich, google photos self hostable, with share options https://github.com/immich-app/immich Nginxproxymanager manages certificates and proxies to self hosted stuff through nginx…

comment by Fire-Dragon-DoL · 2024-03-08 · in Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

…on Apple App Store. Yeah, searched "ente.io": *cricket* Also no encryption-at-rest capability: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/450

comment by egberts1 · 2024-03-03 · in Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

I realize it's very hard, but can we maybe reconsider opening the encryption-at-rest feature request? https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/450 Maybe we can give temporary access to processing steps in the pipeline, then have Immich…

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-03-02 · in Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

…great, the advanced search that landed recently is a game changer combined with semantic search: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v1.96.0

comment by moelf · 2024-03-02 · in Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

This one got me too - check out: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/5907 Running REINDEX TABLE USERS; on the DB solved the issue for me. Immich is definitely fast moving - it is awesome, but has been a challenge to keep it current.

comment by raudette · 2024-03-02 · in Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

I can confirm there is a breaking change literally every single week, check here: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/7405#discus... It's a great software but I would not recommend it at all because of this and the answer from…

comment by js4ever · 2024-03-02 · in Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

…but doesn't mention it on the page for 2-BSD[2]. I'm not sure what to make of that. [0]: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/7023#discus... [1]: https://www.tldrlegal.com/license/bsd-0-clause-license [2]:…

comment by jbboehr · 2024-02-18 · in Htmx become 0 clause BSD-licensed

https://github.com/immich-app/immich Runs on my Android device, auto backing up photos and videos. I've been running this for over a year - it's great.

comment by j_h_o · 2024-01-27 · in Ask HN: De-Googling my life: Alternatives to Google Sheets?

…become a constraint, rather than a feature. [1]: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism [2]: https://github.com/immich-app/immich

comment by vishnumohandas · 2024-01-19 · in Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale

…not use it as only option to store my photos and it does not replace an (off-site)-backup. [1]: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1651#discus...

comment by sandreas · 2024-01-05 · in Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript

…[4]: https://github.com/gokadzev/Musify [5]: https://github.com/localsend/localsend [6]: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/main/mobile

comment by sandreas · 2023-11-29 · in Ask HN: How to create web, mobile, and desktop apps from a common code base?