Hello everyone, Alex from Immich here!

On behalf of the team, I'd like to express my heartfelt gratitude for your support in 2024.

Since the first day I posted the video prototype on the self-hosted subreddit, Immich has been on a journey. I still remember the project’s early days and loved seeing those first issues open on GitHub. How exciting it has been to build something useful for so many people. I am grateful for the compassionate community as well as the feedback and criticism we have received this year.

The project's core idea is to do good things without a hidden agenda or ill motives, to give people a delightful choice to manage their digital media besides the solutions from exploitative big cloud providers. Just last year, we were daydreaming of how wonderful it would be if we could do those things daily as our full-time job. One might have said it is good karma, but Louis Rossman from FUTO found us and extended the invitation for the company to fund the project to let