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sz4kertoyesterday at 6:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

This. It's a fascinating project, it is hard to believe how can an FLOSS project be so high quality. In my book it's on the level of Postgres (although it's a smaller project, probably).


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denysvitaliyesterday at 6:51 PM

Their frontend is amazing, their apps are not as performant, and the backend is (IMHO) the worst of them all.

No hate here, I'm really grateful for what they've achieved so far, but I think there's a lot of room for improvement (e.g: proper R/W query split, native S3 integration, faster endpoints, ...). I already mentioned it in their channel (they're a really welcoming community!) and I'm working on an alternative drop-in replacement backend (written in Go) [1] that will hopefully bring all the needed improvements.

TL;DR: It's definitely good, especially for an open-source project, and the team is very dedicated - but it's definitely not Postgres-good

[1]: https://github.com/denysvitali/immich-go-backend

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essephyesterday at 7:33 PM

Looking at the world around me, so much of it is driven by open source. In fact, I can't name a single piece of electronics around me that isn't using it.

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