You don’t need a “platform” if you just want a simple blog. I don’t know your values, but you can check mine: https://lnar.dev/blog/blog-setup/

I’m just getting my feet wet really, but I love that setup. The only change since that post is that I use Obsidian for editing (and some minor extension changes). It’s a shame Obsidian is not FOSS, but it also doesn’t matter as there is no lock-in and easy to switch.

Thanks! Hmm, not sure what you mean, that I shouldn’t install devDependencies when building the release? That’s a good point, I’ll need to look into it

Oh interesting! Thanks for explaining :)

Thanks for the explanation, makes sense! This app relies quite heavily on in-memory caches, so it’s somewhat incompatible with that model :)

That said, I wonder if the startup time would be noticeable. Depends a lot on the configuration, but it shouldn’t take more than a few 100ms (esp. if you use skip_collection_counts).

Thx! Out of interest, what is your use case?

I don’t know a lot about fastcgi, but looking it up it seems like it also keeps a persistent process running to avoid execution overhead, but I don’t know how that process is managed 🤷‍♂️

Either way, you could use a supervisor of sorts that shuts down the process/container after some idle time (at least for containers I know some exist) and that should probably work fine (outside of interrupting scanning operations).

I haven’t tried it myself yet though :)

Thanks for trying it out! Let me know if you run into any issues or have some ideas :)

Hey thanks! The Immich folks are doing an astounding job indeed :)

Let me know if you encounter any issues! ☺️

Hmm, I’m not sure I understand exactly. By default it uses each subfolder as an album / collection that you can pick on the home page. You can also configure custom collections/albums consisting of arbitrary directories. You could also configure e.g. an “all” collection with all the photos combined by listing the root directory(s). Is that what you meant?

Thanks! Do you mean explorer-like folder browsing?

Sorry if these are stupid questions.

Not at all! Thanks for taking an interest.

Does this only show these foss_photo_libraries and your local photos?

I’m not sure what you mean. foss_photo_libraries is a comparison table of different apps someone else maintains, but I thought it was a useful resource. The photos in the demo are a subset of the open images dataset and a couple of other samples that I picked for demo purposes.

If you install it locally you can point it to a folder and it should use each subfolder as an album, or you can configure custom albums.

Does it support jpegXL?

Yes actually, but I don’t have many files to test it, so I’m not sure how well it works. If you do I’d be interested to hear how it works for you. It uses FFmpeg to on-the-fly convert anything it can’t read natively.

I’d love a seamless zoom feature for images in the browser. I use imagus but I’d love if the popup window could zoom to be bigger than the browser window.

You can zoom by using the mouse wheel or by pinching to zoom if that’s what you mean? You should be able to zoom pretty much as much as you want. If you’re in the main view where the mouse wheel scrolls photos up and down you can hold Ctrl (Cmd?) to zoom instead.

I’d say Immich has quite a few more features, with the primary focus of backing up your media from your mobile devices with a more “managed” approach (it takes care of storing and organizing the files).

Photofield is more minimalistic (both in terms of user interface and as an application) and more useful if you have an existing directory structure that you want to view as a gallery. It also pulls a few neat tricks to make it work smoothly with up to ~600k files.

See also the linked comparison for more details. It’s mostly accurate, though video is a bit better with this release.

It’s quite impressive how much the Immich folks have achieved in a relatively short period of time! I’m glad you found something that works for you :)