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[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Any users here mind sharing their experience?

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

Well after reading this I just went to open the app and it now things none of my tens of thousands of photos are synced to the server, yet the sync icon at the top says there’s nothing to sync. So… not great today lol.

Overall it’s been a very buggy experience for a long time and evidently that’s not about to change anytime soon.

[–] randombullet@programming.dev 4 points 2 hours ago

I run it on a VPS. Works great across oceans. Biggest gripe is that it doesn't load local content first. It checks online and then pulls from those thumbnails. So if you have a weak or slow connection, then you'll get a spinning wheel of death or assets that don't load properly.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

My use case:

I use a Synology NAS to backup my photos/videos. On mobile, I use the Synology Photos app for 100% of the backups, because it's been 100% reliable for me over the years.

I basically run Immich in read-only mode, and specifically for searches. The contextual search is incredible, and after putting it side-by-side with a very expensive Windows software that uses local AI search, it came out on top... no contest.

So in that sense, I'm very happy!

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 1 points 27 minutes ago

Same here. Their recent antics has made me nervous about staying with them. But their photo software is great.

[–] NinjaTurtle@feddit.online 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Can't really comment on the older versions since I recently deployed the server. However from the past couple of updates, the background syncing has improved on the Android version. Before I had to open the app for it to sync but recent updates now upload media without me having to open the app.

For the app itself, works pretty well. There still seems to be bugs or weird UI changes like adding to albums disappeared when you click a photo or video but its there on the grid view if you hold the file.

Overall it seems pretty stable and it has a dedicated app in both iOS and Android. Use to use nextcloud with memories before.