[Feature] Allow star rating and tag modification on public share

[disgustipated]

I have searched the existing feature requests, both open and closed, to make sure this is not a duplicate request.

• Yes

The feature

I would like to be able to have public shares allow non users, but those who did authenticate with the share password, be able to see and edit stars and perhaps tags. Another less desirable option would be to allow non-user, share authenticated "guests" the ability to like and comment, as it seems this is possible with "viewer" users. this would be tougher to work with in my workflow as it wouldnt be searchable and wouldnt show up in the meta on the files.

My use case for this would be for clients who would like prints after a photography session. This would allow them to select a star rating for photos they like in an album, and could select a tag for the print size. Often times, people are not very technical and having them try to remember more than just a password to get into a share can be difficult and cumbersome. I attempted to do this in nextcloud but it doesnt allow star editing very easily. The current implementation in immich is so close to perfect for my needs if the stars and tags could be editable. I could work around not being able to see/edit stars and tags from the public share by creating users and letting them like and comment, but the negative impact there is I would eventually have an excessive number of users on my server only for this purpose, also it would give them a free text box to get overly complicated in. I would also then have to allocate at least 1gb per user where they could potentially use up some of my storage.

These could be two options under the show metadata section and would not be available if the show meta is not enabled

I did fine one other mention of this capability on a github comment in 2024 but it was on an unrelated issue.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[disgustipated]

It looks like a lot of what I'd like to see in the public view is handled through some conditional logic with this
{#if !authManager.isSharedLink && isOwner}
which is specifically limiting what I'm asking for which could be flipped around with some additional options and checks added

I might start poking around and exploring the code some more and potentially making a pull request, i was able to make the stars show on my local environment but it needs some more changes as it wasnt authenticated. I'm not super familiar with these languages so it would take me a while to implement this myself which is why it would be swell to be accepted to be worked on :)

one of the photo album sharing sites for photographers, pic-time, enables facial recognition selection too so that allows end users to see all family in albums quite easily. that goes out of scope of what im looking for here but would be cool to enable as well.