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Tried immich and there was a lot not to like. It behooves everyone to try each one and see if it fits.

Just for product aesthetics, i believe it created a thumbnail folder with every resolution, which is annoying since i have a multi-decade 8tb library.

There were other actual issues with organization and display. But with this I realized I can just get gemini to write a DAM for me in a weekend.

by lucideer4 hours ago|

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Caching & overall library directory structures are configurable fwiw. I find the mobile integrations to be the biggest differentiators.

by mannyv4 hours ago|

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I understand why it did what it did, but I didn't want to spend the time digging in and changing its behavior.

The view options are what killed it in the end.

The thumbnails issue was just me looking at the sausage and like "ugh, I wouldn't have done that."

It's always a tradeoff between time and work. I would have done a sliding window around the current screen, but then you might have placeholders. Maybe it should do low-res first and generated hi-res thumbnails 3 pages out while scrolling. But that's a lot of work for the 10% case.

What I want is aperture back, with all the fun AI stuff and using Affinity for photo editing (which I have anyway). I'll add that to my queue of projects I guess.