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1. jmathai · 1790010664 · focus · HN ↗

   I know this post is about Noodle, but I want to talk about Immich.

   I believe I've spent, perhaps, the most time of anyone on earth on digital photo management (hard to quantify, but since 2005 - 2 startups, one acquisition, and an ongoing open source project used by thousands).

   I say that because I've refused to settle for most solutions in this space. Even when I adopted using Google Photos, it was as a read only viewer of my canonical photo library (I wasn't about to let Google take that responsibility). I have such high demands of whatever software I use for managing my photos and videos - they're really the only digital files I actually care about.

   Immich is absolutely wonderful. It may have some shortcomings ... like partner sharing and sharing facial recognition between users. But man is it remarkable that an open source project can rival something from Google in terms of quality and experience.

   And a soft fork like Noodle is precisely the way to handle it. I am perfectly happy with Immich so am not a user of Noodle. But it's open source flexing its strength.

   1. PStamatiou · 1790031710 · focus · HN ↗

      I have great things to say as well. I left Google Photos about 1 year ago or two, used Takeout to export my ~terabyte of Google Photos, imported to Immich on my mac mini, along with more personal archives of photos. I store the images on an external SSD array (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulstamatiou.com&#x2F;gear&#x2F;owc-express-4m2-nvme-ssd-enclosure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulstamatiou.com&#x2F;gear&#x2F;owc-express-4m2-nvme-ssd-encl...) that I have backed up with Restic+Backrest to some cloud providers.

      My mac mini hosts it behind tailscale to all my devices and it&#x27;s been working great.

      1. jmathai · 1790032676 · focus · HN ↗

         A tweet of yours a decade ago convinced me to add Google Photos into my workflow (thanks).

         <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;swlh&#x2F;my-automated-photo-workflow-using-google-photos-and-elodie-afb753b8c724" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;swlh&#x2F;my-automated-photo-workflow-using-go...

         I removed it from my workflow when its integration with Drive was sunset.

         I was without a great UI for a couple years, paying attention to Immich in my periphery. I decided to add Immich this year on a Mac Mini as well.

         <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jaisenmathai.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;my-ridiculously-robust-photo-management-system-immich-edition&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jaisenmathai.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;my-ridiculously-robust-pho...

         1. amennox · 1790835272 · focus · HN ↗

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