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.