Yehor 🇺🇦Dec 8
I decided to give #Immich another try. I'll let it serve as a backup for my iCloud photos. Will see how it's going. For now, my poor phone is uploading my entire shared library to my poor server. Both are running hot but still standing strong : )
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Show threadYehor 🇺🇦

#Immich first impressions

Well, not really first, but current. Last time I tried it was a couple of years ago, I think.

1. Looks and feels like a polished product.
2. I still can’t have two separate libraries. I really like the idea of two libraries - shared and personal. Like in Synology Photos or iCloud Photos.

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Dec 8 at 8:42pmWeb
Show threadtwo first namesDec 8

@yehor What’s your use-case for number 2. Separate shared library?

There are shared albums, and a cool thing also is that instead of sharing individual photos, you can share your whole library to a partner (both ways) and have those show up inline or not. So you don’t have to share to an album between “partners”.

Show threadYehor 🇺🇦Dec 9
@deancommasteven, while both ways of sharing are acceptable, there is another more convenient way, in my opinion. You still have a shared library with your partner, so all photos from there are in your partner’s timeline, but there is another library with my personal photos. By default, all photos taken by me go to the personal library, and I can move some of them or all of them to the shared library…
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Show threadYehor 🇺🇦Dec 9

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@deancommasteven

So we still don’t have to create albums to share our mutual memories, because it is not always reasonable to create a separate album for two random selfies, for example, but I can filter out photos my partner is not interested in. For example, my #HomeLab photos :)

Show threadSi  (he/him)Dec 9

@yehor @deancommasteven

There's also the locked folder feature. Maybe overkill for your use case.

Show threadtwo first namesDec 9

@yehor Yeah that makes sense. How we do this is by having a single shared album that we treat like your shared library. Everything we want to share between us goes into that one album. We don’t create a new shared album for each event.

I’m not sure if shared albums show up in the timeline though; we haven’t used that feature yet on Immich.