Scrolling timeline design makes no sense

[feld]

I have searched the existing issues, both open and closed, to make sure this is not a duplicate report.

• Yes

The bug

Why is 2021 in the place where December 31 2021 would be? It should be at the beginning of the year where Jan 1 2021 would exist. This layout makes no sense at all and makes it incredibly difficult to quickly jump to a time period accurately

The OS that Immich Server is running on

Debian

Version of Immich Server

v.1.135.3

Version of Immich Mobile App

n/a

Platform with the issue

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

Your docker-compose.yml content

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Your .env content

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Reproduction steps

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Relevant log output

Additional information

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[schuhbacca]

Not really a bug as it's more the intended design. I personally like it this way but leaving discussion open for other opinions for now.

[jrasm91]

The top of the timeline is now/today/latest photo. The bottom of the timeline is your oldest photo (10 years ago, for example). The scrollbar is exactly the same. The top of it is now/today/latest photo and as you go down it goes back in time. It's a top down approach not a bottom up approach, which is why you go from the end of 2022 to the beginning of 2022, and finally to the end of 2021.

[jrasm91]

I guess you could argue that there is an off-by-one bug in that everything would make a more sense if the displayed year was one smaller than what it is currently set to.

[Xiticks]

I think that having something like:
photos of 2024
2024
photos of 2023
2023
photos of 2022
2022

Would make more sense (I think that is what you mean), as clicking on a year would bring you to the beginning of that year, which is similar to other graphs/timelines