PhotoPrism

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with PhotoPrism, 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 11 complaints

Web and app experience is too bad or ugly for daily use2026-09-17
Persistent selection almost never works the way the user wants2025-09-08
Failed deployment with no clear error; the log doesn't say an IPv4 address is needed2024-03-22
Naming people in photos is not intuitive and takes several hidden steps2023-07-11
Can't manually tag faces or correct wrong automatic face tags2023-02-09
Mobile web app is slow, laggy and unresponsive with many photos2023-02-09
Has to manually open the import page and click a button to ingest new photos2022-10-01
Searching for common terms returns no pictures in the demo2022-10-01
Family members can't access the shared photo library, and it consumes all available RAM2022-10-01
Jumping to a past date takes lots of scrolling and waiting for photos to load2021-05-31
Horrible for pre-curated photos, doesn't handle existing organized collections well2020-12-31