[Feature] Add a "Show archived" checkbox to the Recently added page

[GerardUmbert]

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• Yes

The feature

The feature I'd like to see

Add a checkbox to the Recently added page (/recently-added) that includes archived assets in the list. It would be off by default, so the current behavior doesn't change.

The problem

Recently added is meant to show what I've uploaded lately, but archived assets never appear in it. Archiving hides an asset from the main timeline. It doesn't mean I don't want to find it again. Right now the only way to check whether something I just uploaded and archived went through is to go to the Archive page and look there. Archive is sorted by capture date, not upload date. That makes it a poor way to answer "did my latest upload arrive?", which is the main use of this page.

Proposed behavior

A "Show archived" checkbox in the page header.
Unchecked (default): same as today.
Checked: archived assets appear alongside normal ones, ordered by upload date.
Archiving an asset while the box is checked leaves it in the list. Today it disappears.
Implementation notes

I looked at the code, and I think this is a small web-only change with no server or API work:

The page hardcodes visibility: AssetVisibility.Timeline in the timeline options (web/src/routes/(user)/recently-added/[[photos=photos]]/[[assetId=id]]/+page.svelte).
On the server, withDefaultVisibility (server/src/utils/database.ts) returns both Archive and Timeline assets when visibility is left undefined.
Timeline.svelte already calls timelineManager.updateOptions() whenever options changes, so toggling it reloads the list.
A sketch of the change:

Add let showArchived = $state(false).
Make options a $derived with visibility: showArchived ? undefined : AssetVisibility.Timeline.
Add a labelled Checkbox to the page header.
Add an i18n string, for example show_archived.
Skip removeAction={AssetAction.ARCHIVE} while showArchived is on, so archiving doesn't remove the item from view.
Alternatives considered

Using Search with an archive filter works, but it's a different workflow. It has no "recently added" ordering and takes several steps.
Always including archived assets on this page would change behavior for people who rely on it being a clean feed, so a toggle is safer.

Platform

Web.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

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[bo0tzz]

I don't see us adding this; archived assets are meant to be hidden, the recently added page is just a specific view to show what you've just uploaded, and adding bespoke filters to a page like that is in principle not something we do.

[GerardUmbert]

So you can have a workflow instantly archive assets, and NEVER find them again in the timeline to add them to particular albums or anything? that makes absolutely no sense.

Lets not forget archived assets are also visible by default in any album...

Edit: So, either the archive timeline must be sorted by asset upload or the recents should be able to see the archived items. What we cannot have is uploading hunderds of items after we have workflow rules and have those new uploads be lost in time among thousands of other archived assets.

[bo0tzz]

If you're using workflows like this, I would recommend that you add them to an album or tag to keep track instead of relying on the recently added view.

[GerardUmbert]

but do you realize how absurd that is?

add to an album, so they are all thousands of images there, which are also not sorted by added date (which is STILL the issue, as i can also just see ALL archived items in the archive) we are not talking locked-folder here, but archive. those are "invisible" not "unaccessible" we should be able to pick when we want to see them or not with ease instead of being all just dumped into one section that accumulates thousands of images over time...

if i added them to a different album, that would mean then i have to manually manage that album constantly to monitor for new added things on it. and it would still not show the recent uploads on the top so you could at least manage their albums individually.

[GerardUmbert]

For anyone interested...

https://github.com/GerardUmbert/immich-userscripts

here's a tampermonkey set of scripts to accomplish hiding the archived by default in albums and showing archived items on the recent uploads section.