What is the difference between the 'Sharing' page and 'Album' page?

[long forum]

This is a confusion I had for a while.

So, the 'Album' page has all the albums (personal as well as the shared one). It has a toggle to switch between 'All/Owned/Shared'

And the 'Sharing' page has all the albums that are being shared.

I find this very confusing. Technically, all are just albums. And we can choose to share them or not. So, sharing or not sharing is just an attribute that album has. So, I think the 'Album' page does everything the 'Sharing' page does. The one additional option that is there in the sharing page is the button to see all the current 'shared links' -> I think we can just add it to the Albums page. I have the same confusion with the mobile app as well.

What am I missing?

[weak gulch]

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[neat siren]

The sharing page, besides albums, also includes share partner sharing and share links

[long forum]

Okay. Yeah. I agree that it can be handy. Maybe even good from a UI/UX perspective - I know nothing of those. Just thought having the same/similar functionality in two locations is confusing.

Maybe something like this might help? Maybe not..just wanted to see if other people were finding this to be confusing as well.

[neat siren]

We basically have a team of UI/UX designers of Google help building Immich so they probably have done their research

[long forum]

Alright! Thanks for taking the time to respond.