Immich

Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2023–2026), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Immich, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 20 complaints

Photos with broken metadata silently never get processed, with no UI sign of the problem2026-07-03
Importing from Google Photos or iCloud is hard, leaving thousands of broken Live Photos2026-07-03
UI becomes unusable when selecting more than about 10k files for upload2026-07-02
Hard to get set up; took many hours and manual workarounds2026-06-17
Finding a photo from years ago requires endless linear scrolling through the library2025-12-09
Bulk exporting photos is annoying, requiring a Takeout-style workaround2025-12-06
Bulk export requires using a separate tool, which is annoying2025-12-06
Android app often gets stuck on splash screen indefinitely, failing to open2025-12-06
IOS app is buggy and slow, initial sync takes days2025-12-06
Location permission must be set to 'all the time', buried in settings2025-12-06
Map view cannot select an area to explore photos or filter by time of day2025-10-02
Upload state resets to start and stops when app is backgrounded or screen turns off2025-09-09
Admin and config menus are confusing; user always searches both to find settings2025-09-08
Thumbnails take so long to load in the beta timeline, and the timeline feels clunky2025-09-08
Mobile upload is not a one-to-one replacement for Apple Photos import2025-09-08
Search results ordered by relevance seem random, so a specific photo from a known date is hard to find2025-09-08
App lags badly because album sync runs on the main thread2024-10-29
Mobile app needs polishing, though overall usable2024-05-13
Opening the mobile app is slow with a large photo library2024-03-02
Unclear how guests join shared albums and whether uploads leak beyond them2023-11-17