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Immich 1.136 Photo and Video Backup Brings Breaking Changes

Immich 1.136 Photo and Video Backup Brings Breaking Changes

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Such a great project, I'm still waiting for the stable declaration before I try and convert the family but it's getting hard, so many good features. Really hoping they don't fall victim to the enshitification cycle.
- Open-Source is basically immune to enshitification, because as soon as they start to enshitify the community will fork the project and make a better competitor.
  With some exceptions, users need to be able to move their data
  
  I've seen plenty of open source projects get acquired, ruined, and never forked. This is no guarantee.
- You can import from an existing folder (read only if you want) so the barrier to entry is pretty low. Especially if you're doing compose, their helm charts kinda suck though if you're doing k8s I ended up rolling my own.
  
  That's really good to know, thanks!

The Android app finally syncs on a background thread, oh my god.... the app is finally usable without waiting for a minute every time!
- Ah is that what it was. Everyone was always raving about Immich but it was always so slow for me!
  
  Also if you have a large collection in the hundreds of gigbytes and your db is on a hard disk, you may have to tune Postgres to do more caching in RAM. If its on an SSD, then it's fine. If you have db issues, they'll be obvious in the web app too.

Seems like amazing work! Looking forward to testing if this is a solution I might use instead of Google Photos!
- Immich is generally regarded as the self hosted replacement for Google photos, personally I have been happy with nextcloud, it's more basic for photos but still does the job for me.
  
  Yea Nextcloud is rock solid and much more stable, I wish it had the features and trajectory of Immich.
- I've been using it for over a year now. It's been a great replacement for me. It scans faces, shows where pictures were taken on the map, has the "this date" thing. 0 regrets.
  
  By "this date" do you mean a notification thing that surfaces photos from this time years ago, etc?
  
  Thanks!

Damn I wanna switch to Immich, but have a lot of self-tagged photos on PhotoPrism. I haven't been able to find a way to safely transfer all manually applied tags, and edited metadata from PhotoPrism to Immich yet. Maybe I'll just have to bite the bullet and write a script myself.
- If the image metadata contains tags, they will be imported into immich as well. At least all my Google Photos tags got imported no problem.
  
  No, the tags are in PhotoPrism. I don't let it modify my original images.

I don't see where you need to run a DB migration, it's just a change to the docker-compose file for the path.

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