So the final thing tethering me to macOS is Apple Photos, which is really a fantastic program.

PhotoPrism looks like it’s improving quickly, but I was curious to know how it’s going today with regards to:

  • Search filters
    • Date
    • Place
    • Object/person recognition
    • Text recognition
  • Live Photo support
  • Ease of importing
  • Album support, including smart albums
  • Built-in touch ups
  • General stability
  • @[email protected]English
    17•16 hours ago

    Usual precautions apply, the app does not bury the lede:

    The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!

    • @[email protected]English
      2•57 minutes ago

      I love that they clearly say that. IMO they should keep that notice around even later on.

      Far too many people spin up some solution for photos or files, either selfhosted or some paid service, and use it as their only storage. Then they’re surprised when data loss happens.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•5 hours ago

        In keeping an eye on it. I use a rinky dink asustor solution for my photo storage and backups. It’s cludgy as all heck.

    • youmaynotknowEnglish
      8•14 hours ago

      Yes, I tried Immich but it’s basically a second job, no thanks. Photoprism is very good, but would need something like Syncthing to auto upload. So I ended up going with Libre Photo. It’s nowhere near as powerful as Immich in terms of features, but for my over 500K photos and almost 50K videos, works like a charm in ProxMox with the “UhuruPhotos” Android app.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍English
        2•6 hours ago

        Photoprism’s app space is pretty bad, but there is an completely hacky yet reliable solution for Android:

        1. PhotoBackup
        2. The PhotoBackup server on your Photoprism server
        3. A cron job that runs the photoprism import command every few minutes.

        Since I’ve had this set up, it’s worked as well as Google Photos ever did for keeping my phone snaps synced to the server. It’s been more reliable than SyncThing for my data, reacting and syncing faster, and it doesn’t mysteriously periodically just stop running like SyncThing.

        I don’t know if PhotoBackup is available for iOS, but if it is, it works a treat.

      • JustEnoughDucksEnglish
        6•8 hours ago

        Interesting. For me it was a set and forget. I check the change notes before updating every month or so, make a very small change to the yaml compose, and I am back in action in under 10 minutes.

        Different experiences I guess.