I have not shared it with many people. But one of my most wanted feature is to completely share by photos with my partner. None of the services I tried (Plex, Synology Photos) had it. In Immich, it’s just a flip of a button.
Flip a switch and then what, are you getting a isolated public URL to share? Or you have your infrastructure exposed to the internet and the shared URL is pointing to your actual server where the data is hosted?
I will explain my use case. We use iPhones in our family. We have a 2TB iCloud plan, but we have around 8TB of media from our phones. So I started using boredazfcuk/docker-icloudpd to download iCloud photos daily and keep only the past 2 years of media on our phones for iCloud features.
I wanted a separate app to view these TBs of media on my phone, tried many services, and settled on Immich. Whenever my wife and I want to share photos, we usually have to create albums and send links or share media through messages. That is a very painful way to view each other's media. I wanted a service to just share all our photos with each other so that they would be in the same timeline. There was none available, and I had seen people complain about that on HN.
Immich has that feature, where you can select who to share the whole library with. Enabling that I can see all my photos and my wife's photos in the same timeline and same for my wife. Immich lets everyone log in with their own credentials, and it's hosted on Coolify with a Cloudflare Tunnel.
> you have your infrastructure exposed to the internet and the shared URL is pointing to your actual server where the data is hosted
I think the previous commenter misunderstood your question, this is the answer (you can also put it behind something like cloudflared tunnels).
Immich is a service like any other running on your server, if you want it exposed to the internet you need to do it yourself (get a domain, expose the service to the internet via your home ip or a tunnel like cloudflared, and link that to your domain).
After that, Immich allows you to share public folders (anyone with the link can see the album, no auth), or private folders (people have to auth with your immich server, you either create an account for them since you're the admin, or set up oauth with automatic account creation).
Ugreen has it. It has conditional albums in which one can setup rules like person, file type, location, anniversary and more and share a live album. Or leave all params empty and simply mirror the entire library.
