#Uhmmm... Tags?

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keen nebula
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I understand that it's very silly of me to believe that open-source application can be developed in a rapid way, but...

I joined Ente Photos more than a year ago. The first ticket I wrote to support on my first day was: "Why there are tags on your website, but there is no such feature in the app?". The answer was: "The feature will be implemented in 1-2 quarters".

And it's still there. After this period, almost nothing has changed in my user experience:

  • You haven't fixed the issue with the photo crop on PC: there is still only one marker to crop it, so I can crop the image from the bottom right corner only
  • You haven't added tags in ANY way. I was surprised, but it seems to me that even hashtags in descriptions doesn't work or it depends on the device.
  • You haven't simplify the interface. We still have a really messy sidebar. We still don't have the map view or even proper album page on PC - it is just a horizontal strip... which UPDATES EVERY HALF-SECOND. In general, it become even worse through this year. You are still focused on releasing features for mobile, while forgetting to at least fix the basics on desktop.

And at this point, I am really starting to think about trading some security and privacy, but to try Immich or other solutions. But there is literally no one in the market, which gives such level of privacy and such pricing.

Could you please explain your plans on tags, desktop version and the other problems I addressed?

It seems to me that your are focused on side-things more, like memories. I appreciate and support the things you are doing, but my gallery is literally a mess of saved images with cartoon characters and scenarios. In this case, memories are literally useless. And managing around 20k files without a tags... is not quite the experience I was signing for a year ago.

P.S. Sorry if this sounded personal. I just want you to be aware that there are people with different use cases and that I am looking forward to see tags in the future. Thank you for your time and effort!

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mild pilot
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Hey, hashtags in descriptions should be searchable, but that's not how we intend to deliver tags. We've limited bandwidth, and prioritization is unfortunately a game where it's impossible to keep everyone happy 🙂

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The good news is, we've allocated more bandwidth to desktop. So starting next month, things will move forward at a faster pace than before

keen nebula
# mild pilot Hey, hashtags in descriptions should be searchable, but that's not how we intend...

Hello. Okay, then I need to clarify: what exactly do you mean by "hashtags are searchable"?
The search allows to get results by any word in the descriptions, but the order is a must.

Example, from my screenshots:
I have 7 memories with such descriptions: "#aelita #cosplay" (with a space between the words)
If I search like this:
"#aelita #cosplay" - it works.
If I search it another way...
"#cosplay #aelita" - it does not.

This behavior is exactly the thing I am asking for: custom search keywords, where order does not matter.

mild pilot
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Right, so currently we do a full-text search over descriptions, so out-of-order words will break the search

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For tags, we'd want to support the use cases that you mentioned

keen nebula
mild pilot
keen nebula
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