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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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I have a feeling it'll simply grow more in popularity, since stable release will probably make a lot more people feel more comfortable recommending it to people, myself included.

Right now, I don't treat it as if it's a backup in any way due to its beta nature, and I hope that can change.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

It'll be safe to host without extra software in front of it to make it read-only

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I seriously only want to have options for sorting when I do a search. That's the only thing that I need for it to be "perfect".

[–] conrad82@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I tried it briefly, but when I realized I could not easily sync a bunch of my pictures from server to new phone, I lost interest and went back to syncthing

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just out of curiosity, what's the use case for having all your photos actually on the phone as opposed to remote access from your phone?

[–] conrad82@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Backup, redundancy, easy access.. If my server goes down I don't have the time to fix it at the moment.

Also the photos app on my phone is quite good, so I find it very easy to find old pictures quickly.

I also prefer offline-capable solutions

[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If the internet disappears or you lose access to it for some reason, you can still see your photos.

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

You can survive a day trip without access to your photos. We managed just fine before smartphones brought that practice into the mainstream.

[–] WeAreAllOne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Unless you're a professional photographer who likes self hosting.. 😝

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A professional photographer doesn't use cloud storage to store the GBs of RAW files from their shoots

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why not? They absolutely should be using something like Backblaze. In fact someone who has digital photos as their business would be dumb not to use cloud storage.

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Downvoted for reality.

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You can still use Syncthing to pull photos back to the phone, Immich just stores them in organized directories as normal files.

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