I think simpler deployment should be on top of the list for next year. The microservice architecture scares quite a lot of people away and makes it complicated. If it was me, I would make microservices optional, for people who wants to scale their immich components. Most will never have the need.

I think you are still learning… What you say doesn’t make sense, so I think you may have misunderstood what happened.

I don’t even know what a heic image is.

Edit: It’s a apple picture format from their cameras.