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1. bastawhiz · 1790006620 · focus · HN ↗

   It's not really an alternative to Immich as the title says, it's a fork that's continuously rebased with each release.

   1. Firerouge · 1790006878 · focus · HN ↗

      And quite a few of the features seem like common sense additions that should be pulled into Immich itself.

      It's not entirely clear to me what warranted a forked release, are the immich devs not open to accepting some of these new features?

      1. bo0tzz · 1790007011 · focus · HN ↗

         They forked because these are all heavily vibecoded changes that we don't want to merge upstream as such. (- I'm on the Immich team)

         1. spunker540 · 1790020069 · focus · HN ↗

            Thanks for chiming in. Is the issue that they are vibecoded, or specific issues with the changes themselves?

            1. bo0tzz · 1790020828 · focus · HN ↗

               It'd be specific issues with the changes themselves, originating in them being vibecoded ;)

               1. solarkraft · 1790043458 · focus · HN ↗

                  Please consider communicating it more like that rather than putting the focus on the process of the creation. This saves you some irritation by people like me who find it weird and unproductive to do the latter.

                  Additionally, the author claims to not have vibe coded the features, so some of your credibility is on the line here in claiming they did.

                  1. ubertaco · 1790079012 · focus · HN ↗

                     Sometimes, certain processes strongly predict bad outcomes, though.

                     If someone told me to choose between two barbecue restaurants, where one used an wood-fired smoker and the other used a microwave, my reaction wouldn't be "you really shouldn't judge based on just the process." The microwave is a sufficient indicator of low quality.

                     Vibecoding (as distinct from using AI as a resource while writing better code yourself) is the microwave: fast, hands-off, low-effort, low-quality.

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