"Display order" album sorting not carried over to shared albums

[hydrandt]

The bug

Selected album display order is not respected in albums shared with a link.

It would be great if:

1. Shared albums respected the sorting order set in the album
2. (optional) let viewers set their preferred display order

The OS that Immich Server is running on

Ubuntu 23.10

Version of Immich Server

v1.101.0

Version of Immich Mobile App

v1.100.0

Platform with the issue

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

Your docker-compose.yml content

name: immich                                

services:                                   
  immich-server:                            
    container_name: immich_server                                                                                                                                                 
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}                   
    command: ['start.sh', 'immich']
    volumes:                                
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload                                           
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro                                                                                                                                          
    env_file:                               
      - .env                                
    ports:                                  
      - 2283:3001                           
    depends_on:                             
      - redis                               
      - database                            
    restart: always 

  immich-microservices:
    container_name: immich_microservices
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
    # extends: # uncomment this section for hardware acceleration - see https://immich.app/docs/features/hardware-transcoding
    #   file: hwaccel.transcoding.yml
    #   service: cpu # set to one of [nvenc, quicksync, rkmpp, vaapi, vaapi-wsl] for accelerated transcoding
    command: ['start.sh', 'microservices']
    volumes:
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    env_file:
      - .env
    depends_on:
      - redis
      - database
    restart: always

  immich-machine-learning:
    container_name: immich_machine_learning
    # For hardware acceleration, add one of -[armnn, cuda, openvino] to the image tag.
    # Example tag: ${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}-cuda
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-machine-learning:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
    # extends: # uncomment this section for hardware acceleration - see https://immich.app/docs/features/ml-hardware-acceleration
    #   file: hwaccel.ml.yml
    #   service: cpu # set to one of [armnn, cuda, openvino, openvino-wsl] for accelerated inference - use the `-wsl` version for WSL2 where applicable
    volumes:
      - ./model-cache:/cache
    env_file:
      - .env
    restart: always

  redis:
    container_name: immich_redis
    image: registry.hub.docker.com/library/redis:6.2-alpine@sha256:51d6c56749a4243096327e3fb964a48ed92254357108449cb6e23999c37773c5
    restart: always

  database:
    container_name: immich_postgres
    image: registry.hub.docker.com/tensorchord/pgvecto-rs:pg14-v0.2.0@sha256:90724186f0a3517cf6914295b5ab410db9ce23190a2d9d0b9dd6463e3fa298f0
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
      POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USERNAME}
      POSTGRES_DB: ${DB_DATABASE_NAME}
    volumes:
      - ./pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    restart: always

Your .env content

# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=./library

# The Immich version to use. You can pin this to a specific version like "v1.71.0"
IMMICH_VERSION=release

# Connection secret for postgres. You should change it to a random password
DB_PASSWORD=_____

# The values below this line do not need to be changed
###################################################################################
DB_HOSTNAME=immich_postgres
DB_USERNAME=postgres
DB_DATABASE_NAME=immich

REDIS_HOSTNAME=immich_redis

Reproduction steps

1. Create an album, and in its Options, select Display order: Oldest first
2. Share the album (Create link)
3. Open the link -> display order is from oldest -> newest

Additional information

If a PR for this is welcome, let me know:) I didn't go through the frontend code yet, I suppose it should be easy to find the places to work on. If there is something that would be helpful to bring this feature to shared albums, please share.

[alextran1502]

Convert to feature request as it is not implemented yet

[roserez]

I second this. The feature implemented last month to permit display sort order of OLDEST FIRST in albums is of no value to me if it doesn't apply shared links to the album. (It doesn't work in the Android app either but that is less of a show-stopper.) In fact, this actually caused some trouble because I had formerly instructed to people scroll to the bottom and work up with the left arrow. However, after that feature release, I told everyone that they no longer needed to do that. I hadn't suspected that their view of the same album was so different than mine. I don't mean to come across as a complainer of the hard work of good developers, especially ones working for free - I just want to convey the importance of consistency in the various display platforms and methods. Hope you can get to this soon. Thanks!

[DX37]

It seems that I need this feature too. Thought about right sort order as well when created album, but didn't expect to have newest first only for shared albums from viewer perspective. For now I need to tell people that they should look through my photos from the end to the beginning of album, lol. Which seems embarrassing for me, if I want to promote how cool is Immich for me.

[whenbearsreign]

To add to this feature request, it would be great to have a setting for the default sorting for current and newly created albums. I have a preference for albums to be sorted oldest-to-newest, but imported albums from Google Photos are default sorted by Newest-to-Oldest. Thanks!

[roserez]

Just checking on this again. It's a showstopper for me since everyone views my Albums via shared links. Newest to oldest is just not the way to present photos of an event.

Thanks!

• Mike

[sym0nd0]

Yeah, I'm interested to know if there is any progress on this, as like others this is stopping me be able to comfortably use the brilliant sharing link feature for our wedding photos. The current order causes confusion.