I’ve seen a lot of recommends for Immich on here, so I have an idea what the answer here is going to be, but I’m looking for some comparisons between it and Photoprism I’m currently using Synology Photos, and I think my biggest issue is it’s lack of metadata management. I’ve gotten around that with MetaImage and NeoFinder. I’m considering moving to something not tied to the Synology environment.

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    How many photos do you store there that you recommend it? Like 500? With any serious number of photos Nextcloud starts loading for minutes and the android app autoupload goes tits up.

    That bug is open for years and if with so many users affected and a commercial entity behind this project nobody has fixed it yet, I doubt it’s fixable without a very major rewrite.

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      Such a good point. I’m honestly surprised people recommend Nextcloud so frequently. I’ve used it in a commercial environment and it sucks ass. It broke numerous times when upgrading, it was buggy and slow. At the time their GitHub page had like 4k open issues and another 8k closed. Looks like it’s somewhat better now. Many of issues we’ve experienced were reported but no movement for years. It’s like least stable OSS I had dealt with.

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        Exactly, same here. Nextcloud is the only container for which I disabled auto upgrades, because I don’t always have 8 hours to deal with the aftermath.

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      I’ve got something in the region of 80gb of jpeg and raw files.

      Probably 8000-9000 photos.

      Yeah syncing from my phone was a bear, but I just let it run overnight.

      Also not using iOS for what it’s worth. iOS is a shithole when it comes to overaggressive battery optimisation.

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        It was around 10k-15k photos that the server stopped working well. I’m surprising syncing on Android worked well for you with 8k photos though, there are so many bug reports on Github with cases like mine where it just stops working with 2k photos. Not slow, but failing to sync at all.

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      I asked someone about this a few days ago, and they claimed to have over 30000 photos in Nextcloud without issues

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      With any serious number of photos Nextcloud starts loading for minutes

      What is this serious number you have in mind? I’m the first one thinking that some of the design choices behind nextcloud are laughable, and that their attitude towards code quality and best practices is inadequate, but even then I don’t think this threshold is easily reached.