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Copying this from Reddit (I still get the daily emails). Since I no longer post there, I figured I would ask here, and include my prediction: Will be more popular, possibly in stable release. Still won't be able to rotate photos natively.

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[–] majoru@feddit.org 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I was one of the first Immich core developers but had to leave a year ago due to a change in my job situation.

Just wanted to say that the team (especially Alex, the founder) are wonderful people and very dedicated to the project. When they don’t implement the features everyone wants, there is usually a very good reason, like security or architectural concerns. The philosophy behind the project is also to do things slowly but right.

I believe they continue focussing on robusness and bugfixing. A topic that we discussed a lot was e2e encryption. We really wanted to implement that, but it was very hard and back then would have compromised performance too much. I still think that e2e encryption will come at some point.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man, I sure hope they're free of the container crutch.

[–] aurelian@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you mean by container crutch?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Containers carry concerns around validation of container contents and, by extension, host contents. This has been well-discussed and is beyond the scope here.

But I do hope for an installation free of container mess.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

But those are concerns for all containers, and not really an immich issue.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It'll be good if it can be decrypted by the device itself. Almost perfect security tbh

[–] majoru@feddit.org 1 points 17 hours ago

The problem here is, that the server does a lot of image processing to generate various thumbnail sizes. This is the main reason images in the gallery load so fast when scrolling. But to archive this, the server needs to read the image which would not work with e2e.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Very cool post. I didn’t mean to denigrate the dev team at all. They’ve done incredible work, and I’ve read some of the threads about rotation. They’re definitely aware of the issue, and they want to make sure it’s done right, which I appreciate. Also, it’s FOSS, so I don’t want to be negative about the outlook when its users already get so much more than they pay for!

Still, it’s such a thorn in my side!