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Immich vs Ente ? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, same here. As soon as I discovered Immich, I pored through all the info I could get my hands on and found that breaking changes happened often, so I made absolutely certain to read every changelog for things that may affect my setup. I sstopped updating it last year due to life getting in the way, and it was stuck on 1.138 (and shut off) until last week when I decided to pay attention to it again.

[–] _Nemo_@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've got a second deployment of immich that also got stuck somewhere on v1.x. May I ask how you upgraded to the most recent version? Did you just go for 3.0, or did you do "baby steps" in between? (e.g. 1.138 > 2.0 > 3.0)

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Did you just go for 3.0, or did you do “baby steps” in between? (e.g. 1.138 > 2.0 > 3.0)

Pretty much that. Downloaded the latest compose.yml, copied all the relevant bits from my existing compose file to the fresh one (volumes, database/db credentials, etc), set the version to v2.0.0, and let 'er rip. Made sure it was playing nice, then checked all the changelogs up to 2.7.x (whatever the newest release was last week), set the version to v2, and updated it again. That was the newest release. Fast forward to this week, all I did was set the version to 'v3' and the update took without a problem.

[–] _Nemo_@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Great, I'll probably do just that this summer. Thanks for the info!