alt Hacker NewsImmich is a Google Photos clone, and when they say "self-hosting", they mean SELF-HOSTING. You need to be a web dev or a sys admin to be able to wrangle that thing. Nightmare upgrades, tons of weird bugs related to syncing.
If your solution to an issue is "just reset the Redis cache", this is when I am done.
Immich solves the wrong problem. I just want the household to share photos - I don't want to host a Google Photos for others.
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Such a weird take. Of course "self hosting" means "self hosting".
Sure it could be easier/safer to manage, everything can be better.
Over the last couple of years hosting it I had a single issue with an upgrade but that was because I simply ignore the upgrade instructions and YOLOed the docker compose update.
Again, is it perfect? No. Would I expect a non tech savy user to manage their own instance? Again no.
I was just telling a nonprofit the other day, who in the name of “self hosting” was running their business on a 73 plugin WordPress site:
Move to Shopify and LearnWorlds. Integrate the two. Stop self hosting. (They’re not large enough to do it well; and it already caused them a two week outage.)
> Immich solves the wrong problem. I just want the household to share photos
That is a totally reasonable view. But others have different preferences. I, for example, do not want to share all my photos with Google, govvies and anyone else they leak them to.
So I self host, back up and share my files with the family. I can always dump what I want to insta, etc. but it is my choice what to share, picture by picture, with default "off". And have no dark patterns trying to catch a finger accidentally hitting a "back up to cloud" for the full album.
That, to me, is a big deal, worth dealing with occasional IT hassles for. Which is just a personal preference.