Copying this from Reddit (I still get the daily emails). Since I no longer post there, I figured I would ask here, and include my prediction: Will be more popular, possibly in stable release. Still won’t be able to rotate photos natively.

  • conrad82@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I tried it briefly, but when I realized I could not easily sync a bunch of my pictures from server to new phone, I lost interest and went back to syncthing

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      18 hours ago

      Just out of curiosity, what’s the use case for having all your photos actually on the phone as opposed to remote access from your phone?

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        11 hours ago

        Backup, redundancy, easy access… If my server goes down I don’t have the time to fix it at the moment.

        Also the photos app on my phone is quite good, so I find it very easy to find old pictures quickly.

        I also prefer offline-capable solutions

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        18 hours ago

        If the internet disappears or you lose access to it for some reason, you can still see your photos.

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          17 hours ago

          You can survive a day trip without access to your photos. We managed just fine before smartphones brought that practice into the mainstream.

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              4 hours ago

              That would be an insane amount of phone storage. I don’t think a single available smart phone could sync an entire professional library of photos. Especially considering how large each photo is.

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              11 hours ago

              A professional photographer doesn’t use cloud storage to store the GBs of RAW files from their shoots

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      16 hours ago

      You can still use Syncthing to pull photos back to the phone, Immich just stores them in organized directories as normal files.