alt Hacker NewsDoes your phone silently and reliably upload all the photos to your server? My guess you're conceding on that part.
How's the offline app support? My full library (30k items) is available on my phone (not in high res). There are a lot more concessions I'm sure.
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The sync really is quite good. On wifi it's basically seamless. If I had 30k new images though it would be much faster to use the immich-go tool mentioned in the blog post.
Offline support is alright, though I haven't worried about this much. I think it doesn't do any local deletion, so whatever stays in your DCIM folder is still on device.
The offline sync was a bit problematic in the past but this year they finally got it working properly.
I’d gladly trade manual but bulletproof sync over paying a fee forever for essentially… storing files on drives.
We got to this stage of having to sync because Apple can’t stand putting more storage on client devices.
Yes, it does silently and reliably upload all my photos to my server. That's like, the entire selling point of the app? You even have control over how and when (on wifi or not) and the ability to change hostnames depending on what network you are on. And yes I can browse my entire collection back to 2001 no problem. I have no idea what the offline support is.