Better sharing in Immich

[jrasm91]

Sharing precious photos and videos is an important part of immich, but right now it is a bit confusing and limiting. There are some technical implications to sharing decisions, especially as it relates to security and access controls. Lately there have been a lot of PRs tweaking queries here and there, but really this deserves a proper face lift by the development team. For now, we are going to put a feature freeze on any sharing related changes while we internally discuss and come up with a plan for what sharing in immich will look like moving forward.

This issue will serve as a placeholder for current limitations and feature requests around various sharing mechanisms

A "better solution" should incorporate following:

• Albums
• Stacks
• Shared links
• Partner sharing
• Library sharing
• Asset data (tags, people, etc.)
• Actions in the web that are "sharing aware", which includes better error messages, more clarity around what actions can be done on what assets, etc.

[Jacup]

hey, i have related idea.

My setup:
Each family member has his own account and one additional account with created external library. This account is sharing that library thru partner sharing with all family members.

What's is working: Sharing all photos in timeline works fine.
What's should be implemented: Add possibility to share all albums using 'partner sharing'.

Right now, to share albums, i have to choose them manually. With 50+ albums, it's quite long and boring process. Adding sharing an albums to 'Partner Sharing' or add some option to share all albums at once (example flow: Select user to share with -> Select albums -> use ctrl+a to select all -> shared) would help this process alot.

[jeffrpowell]

Throwing my vote in for this one. I was about to submit a feature request specifically targeting the ability to share facial recognition people with partners. I'd prefer my people-based searching to include results from all shared libraries and partner uploads that I have access to.

[aviv926]

It would be great to see the smart search integrated into shared albums, and especially if they are shared via a link, this way even those who don't have an Immich account (a friend from work with whom the album is shared) will be able to use the smart search to find a specific image.

[GD-Dal]

I think there should be a difference between sharing and several people collaborating on the library.
It is a great desire from me to have many people maintaining the library, including access to all tags folders, etc

Sharing could be if you wanted to show some pictures (read-only) to someone without creating accounts for them, etc

Wishes:

• The ability to have many people maintain the library
• Nested albums
• Groups of people, and the ability to give access to library / albums with groups. Today, when trying to share 30 albums with someone, it can be very tiresome
• Create albums based on tags
• Search based on tags
• Everyone gets access to tags and folders

I hope these features are being worked on. Basically the only things missing as of now

[Zvirovyi]

I agree with the @jeffrpowell. I've recently discovered that facial recognition doesn't work with partner-shared photos and it's very confusing as I can't find mentions of this limitation in the documentation - nor in the "Facial Recognition" or "Partner Sharing" sections.