83k Github stars in under 4 years is definitely indicative of an excellent project

The fediverse is small and the Immich dev is one of our own, not surprising that it's super popular

It's crazy good for something FREE. Like infinitely better than any major crop google apple etc because you KEEP your photos. Anything you upload to the cloud is being mined by them.

The only thing I tell people is that you need a cloud backup.

I have an automated nightly worker that zips all my photos encrypts them with a 32 character password and then uploads it to a bulk storage facility.

Shhhh! No one can no we are all being played by the immich overlords.

It's just that good

I found it a couple of months ago without hearing about it before. I was in an ideal place for a Google Photos replacement.

There's a couple of rough edges but it is, indeed, best-of-class.

Yeah :) Maybe give lychee a try :) it's minimalist and does one thing, but it does it well !!!

As a newbie in selfhosting, Immich is what I use almost every day. And it is so good. A literal Google Photos but it's my own. Snappy web app and android app. Has epic face recognition, contextual search and now even text recognition. All that on an efficient and not so powerful N100 cpu. I can totally see why community loves it.