Comment on Too many issues with Lychee. Any alternative ?
mike_wooskey@lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com 8 months ago
I currently use Photo structure, which is good, but its not open source and the one guy behind it, Matthew, is quite slow with progress. He’s super friendly and helpful, and bug fixes are pretty quick. But feature additions are glacial.
I was considering switching to photoprism but was turned off by the attitude of some of the developers. The product looks prery good, though.
I’m pretty sure I’m going to switch to Immich, which is also really good.
A friend uses Piwigo which is decent and has good features, though I find it’s very ugly regardless which skin you use.
I gave Photoprism a shot a while ago when it was still in its early stages. Just revisited it recently, and I must say it has definitely matured and become more appealing. However, I did notice that it’s missing a few options that I really enjoy using in Lychee.
I’m already using Immich for photo backup, but that serves a different purpose.
On the other hand, Piwigo felt a bit outdated to me - almost like stepping back in time 20 years.
Still on the hunt for a good Lychee replacement.
I tried immich, photoprism and piwigo. I settled with librephotos. Iirc it was because of the face recognition capabilities and read the photos from my nas.
How is your librephoto experience so far?
herrfrutti@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Immich is very cool. Be carefull to read every release note and do not auto update. There are can be breaking changes! In total im happy with immich!
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I needed this comment a few weeks ago. Updated it and everything broke, still haven’t been able to recover from it. I’m considering moving to a different software just because it’s absurd that it breaks so completely if you don’t thread very carefully, most software I have ever worked with has migration protocols for when there’s db changes to avoid this sort of thing.
herrfrutti@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m sorry to hear that. But the dev points that out very clear on the docs etc.
From what we self hosters are used to, this does not happen often, but it can.
Hope you can recover!