Link is a 1h42m video interview between Louis Rossmann, FUTO and Immich developers with a introduction to Immich by Louis.
Immich is an open source self-hosted in-development tool to manage image libraries from a central server, and sync/distribute them across your devices, as an alternative to Google Photos. Also see: https://immich.app
The important news here is that FUTO has funded full time development on Immich for 3 years.
The best image gallery software is Nextcloud Memories.
Is it the best or is it just the one you use? Have you used both? Recently? Immich has changed a lot in the past year or two.
IMO just the fact that it’s a NextCloud thing kinda sucks
Having used both, immich wins by a landslide. I was initially waiting until it got to a stable release, but it’s already so much better. I’d recommend anyone to just use immich.
Louis discusses his experience with Nextcloud in the first portion of the video.
For him, Nextcloud’s gallery app runs much slower than Immich. The Nextcloud app only supports proxy image previews but no proxy video previews, which Immich does.
Memories and Gallery (actually deprecated by photos) are not the same thing, just to clarify. I’m not in a position to agree or disagree with any of the statements here since I’ve never used immich, but I don’t want people to think that the default photo viewer in nextcloud is what was being discussed here.
Nextcloud is so slow though, I just wish they would fix the performance of it. Taking 2+ seconds to load a file browser is crazy.
NC has also had some major data loss/corruption bugs I’ve been hit with, I switched away from it because I was tired of the bugs.
It actually looks great. I’m surprised to see that to be honest. But I use next cloud only as an alternative to Google drive. I find most of the times I can’t make apps work and risk breaking my next cloud installation. But if it works for you, awesome 👍