I'm kind of surprised that using object storage wasn't a first-class concern. Though I guess if running it at home was the biggest thing, that's not the top priority, but still. Using fast, cheap object stores (often with CDNs in front) has been commonplace for images, videos, and similar content for decades now. For virtually anything that uses some dynamic amount of storage based on user actions, my expectation is that I'll be able to configure it to store and fetch from S3 (or similar).

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esperent 4 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah this was pretty much my reaction, and seeing that it's not supported (either by Immich or Photoprism) really made me think these projects are not for me.

	▲	privatelypublic 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Photoprism shouldn't be in consideration at all. They felt the need to post in their FAQ that not checking authorization/authentication before serving photos* if directly linked is OK because its "industry standard" and (paraphrased) "difficult/impossible to implement" * might just be thumbnails. But lets be honest- a 1/10 scale thumbnail of 40MP shot is... still a ton of detail.