v2.0.0 - Stable Release of Immich · immich-app immich · Discussion #22546
github.com
v2.0.0 - Stable Release of Immich Watch the video Welcome Hello everyone, After: ~1,337 days, 271 releases, 78,000 stars on GitHub, 1,558 contributors, 31,500 members on Discord, 36,000 members on ...

cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/foss@beehaw.org/t/1225798

After: ~1,337 days, 271 releases, 78,000 stars on GitHub, 1,558 contributors, 31,500 members on Discord, 36,000 members on Reddit, 68 languages on Weblate, Surviving the controversial announcement about joining FUTO, Having overwhelming success and support from the community with the product keys model, Launching the Merch store, Attending our first FOSDEM, …and before the release of GTA VI We are thrilled to announce the stable release of Immich! 🎉

I’m really excited about such a large project adopting semver! I never got the trend for software without a need for rapid release cycles adopting purely time-based version numbers.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    58·
    17 hours ago

    We aim to introduce additional paid services (not paywalled features, as we will never implement paywalled features), which will help support the project and that enhance self-hosting, making it easier and more reliable. First among the many services already planned is an end-to-end encrypted, off-site backup and restore feature, built directly into Immich. This will enable a buddy backup feature as well.

    I love this.

    Free features, but offering actual useful services for self-hosters (encrypted cloud backup). Great business model for a project like this.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      12 hours ago

      Having their own flagship instance, like Ente, would go a long way toward providing funding. I bet Ente is making a whole lot more money.

    • ook@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      7·
      12 hours ago

      It sounds great, but Immich wouldn’t be the first to go back on such promises when it becomes convenient. Hopefully thanks to funding via FUTO it might not ever happen, but who knows. Appreciate they write it out, but it is not like that is legally binding.

      • sonofearth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        15 hours ago

        If you don’t want to pay Immich for backups, you can take care of off-site backups yourself using tools like rclone to your hard drive or any off-site storage of your choice. A paywall here would be not allowing offsite backups at all unless you pay Immich.

        • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          12 hours ago

          I sync with syncthing to an 8tb hard drive at work. Then backblaze that ish.

      • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        14 hours ago

        A paid service is something that is going to have running costs on the side of the provider. E.g. the cloud backup means they need to buy/rent storage space. If they were to do something like a service for remote machine-learning (for people that do not have the hardware to properly do that) that would be a running cost of renting gpu-time.

        A paywall is a feature that would work perfectly fine without any external factors, but its blocked because you didn’t pay.

        Some nuance is needed of course. Often a paid service could be self-hosted (thats why I love being able to self-host the machine learning in immich, with a different design choice that could’ve totally been a paid service).