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Immich vs Ente ? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by warmaster@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Chosing the right photo app for my family

So, Immich vs Ente, this is my last piece of the selfhosted puzzle. Please help me make an informed decision:

Immich

on the plus side, it seems to have more features and it has a gazillion integrations with other selfhosted software. Downside: breaking changes are fairly common AFAIK.

Ente

looks like the opposite, more mature, scoped and less integrated.

Am I reading this right? Am I missing something?

Edit: Thanks everyone, I'm going with immich!

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[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yea I changed over to v3 without issue recently too, I read the release notes and some of the issue conversations on github, so I knew what to expect.

That's something a lot of people dont do, if you are self hosting an open source project it's on you to stay on top of those things, stay updated as much as possible but dont do major jumps blindly without backups.

In my case, I went from a regular immich in a container to one with openVino built in for gpu accelerated image analysis and face detection, and I had to change my database container image. Then it fired straight up and everything seems to work 100% so far.

[–] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You know.. it's hilarious you say that about staying on top of your selfhosted stuff.

I learned that lesson not too long ago.. I am self-hosting ubiquitys unifi network application.

Apparently two years ago they split out the database from the app.

I had no idea until my wifi abruptly stopped working. Haha

Now I pay attention to that stuff a little more.

Lmao

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

yea, very easy to fall back into the bad habit of blindly updating without giving the release notes a skim.