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Re:Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before the... by mikewarot on Sunday October 12, 2025 @04:07AM (#45556298)
Picasa was awesome, they had face recognition years before almost everything else, in a nice offline package.

Unfortunately the last public version has a bug that randomly swaps face tags, so you end up training on the wrong persons faces just enough to throw it all off, and the recognition becomes effectively worthless on thousands of family photos. 8(

Digikam is a weak sauce replacement that barely gets the job done.

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Re:Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before the... by flancian on Sunday October 12, 2025 @10:07AM (#45558316)
Immich is supposed to solve this nowadays: https://github.com/immich-app/immich
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Re:Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before the... by arkensaw on Sunday October 12, 2025 @04:59PM (#45561853)
Immich is the closest thing I've found to Picasa. However, I would just point out you can still download and use Picasa 3.9 on Windows.
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