I use Immich and it's fantastic. All other self-hosted alternatives I I've used have been lacking in one way or another, but Immich is a joy to use. Fast, featureful, easy to set up. I love it so much I gave them $100 to support them.
After stopping for years because it was hard to view them easily, I'm finally taking photos again because of Immich.
> Fast, featureful, easy to set up. I love it so much...
Alex Tran (Immich lead) really took it up a notch or two when FUTO "acquired" the project. The FUTO model is interesting in showing another successful way to grow & support FLOSS till self-sustainability.
Honestly, thank you for making me feel marginally better about the disgustingly lazy, shortsighted, stupid etc. practice of using Google Photos even though they are waiting with bated breath to report me to the cops because I took a picture of my son to send to his doctor[1], before banning my whole account.
Migrating to Immich, 2026, hold me to it please lazy me! Oh how’s the search? (Too lazy to label anything so rely on Google Spyware for text & object recognition search when iOS fails. Take photos every day of my life so plenty to trawl through.)
Did you ever get access to Gmail/fi again after the incident?? The article said the two cases, at time of writing, still had not gained access to their account again even after they were cleared.
Sorry! By "waiting with bated breath" I sarcastically meant they'd be eager to report me in the _hypothetical case_ I took a photo as reported! Glad we both feel for that poor dad.
...especially cause he's stuck with Yahoo (actually do remember that detail from the story, and that people give him a hard time for it)
After stopping for years because it was hard to view them easily, I'm finally taking photos again because of Immich.