The Immich project post on their two year anniversary of joining FUTO (and thereby having paid core developers) is a really nice read: https://immich.app/blog/futo-two-years-later

[rixx@chaos.social]

The Immich project post on their two year anniversary of joining FUTO (and thereby having paid core developers) is a really nice read: https://immich.app/blog/futo-two-years-later

I'm generally super impressed with the development speed and quality, as well as the obvious care by the Immich team.

#immich

[rixx@chaos.social]

Shortly after joining FUTO, they started selling product keys. Product keys are purely a way to support the product – you can enter them on your server to register you've got one, but that's it, they do not unlock any paid features.

Joining a parent org can be great for all the admin and accounting stuff required for something like that, as well as moving the overhead of running their community-available tiles server etc. Also enabled them to donate to libraries they rely on etc.

#Immich

[rixx@chaos.social]

Generally Immich is, imo, a really cool open source success story.

I also really liked that they use the post to explicitly address concerns people had two years ago re: joining FUTO (like code quality, relicensing, etc).

But (and this is really in keeping with the general tone of the maintainers and the project), this doesn't read defensive or like the worries were unfounded or dumb, just like they want to show that the project is now in a good place.

#Immich