It's kind of ironic seeing all the people on 'hacker news' wanting someone else to provide a service. Why not hack the good hack and make your own system to do what you need from Picasa?
Moving on from Picasa
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Re: Moving on from Picasa
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I'm still upset about Google Reader...
Digg Reader is almost identical in every important way... just in case you haven't tried it
My experience with Digg reader is that it is still subpar, though better than Feedly. Specifically, I've seen it miss updates on some feeds (sometimes for days at a time), and it frequently "forgets" that I've looked at items and shows them as new again (seems to be a UI glitch). It also frequently shows feeds as having unread items but no items are actually unread (seems to be a server-side glitch, resolved by marking read in bulk).
Digg Reader is still the best I've found, but still feels like a notable step down from the reliability and consistency of Google Reader.
Re: Moving on from Picasa
#153My wife and I take a lot of pictures on our smartphones. What service can I pay for that will: - Automatically upload our pictures from our smartphone - Keep them private, viewable only to use, or family members. - Nice gallery feature. - Easy to export all data in one go. I will pay cold hard cash for this. My wife will decapitate me if I lose our backup pictures of our kids when they were babies.
Flickr or SmugMug. Flickr would probably require some tuning, as it's built as a social, not private photo-keeping, tool. SmugMug, though, is targeting professional photographers, so high-res, galleries, exporting is all there. Flickr pricing is kinda off-putting - $0 for 1TB, $499 for 2TB.
Thanks for the mention! Appreciate it. :) The bulk of our business (2/3rds of subscribers) is non-Pro. We come off as fairly professional (and we love our Pros!), but I think that's mostly because we have a huge emphasis on presentation. Our philosophy is, if you care about photos enough to pay for somewhere great to keep them safe and show them off with the people you care about, you're in the club. We'd love to have you.
Re: Moving on from Picasa
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why doesn't Google Photos work for you ? It does provide all the features you mention (depending on definition of "Nice gallery feature" of course), and on top of it really awesome search features. Full disclosure: I work at Google (not on the Photos product though). All opinions expressed are purely mine, and not of my employer.
I agree with sergiotapia about Google Photos falling short in the area of sharing pictures among family members. If we do trust Google not to kill off Google Photos... Without grahamburger's hack of creating an independent, shared account (which I wonder whether is strictly allowed by account usage terms), how can a family share all of their photos? I'm not talking about sharing an album. My wife and I would like all…
Private links, like Google Drive has, is probably an upcoming feature.
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>not everything needs to be, nor should be, a pure webapp google thinks you're wrong. me too.
Soon we'll all be running all our applications in facebook or googleplus or icloud, in a browser, in a virtual machine, on a proprietary-blob-driven all-in-one device. Apps will be announced with huge fanfare (the most innovative thing ever), they'll show up in front of you without any action required on your part, they will change drastically in front of your eyes, corner cases will be buggy, and then in a few month…
> corner cases will be buggy
This is where you are wrong. It is much easier catch and fix bugs in cloud software.
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#157Huge pet peeve of Google... Develop a great little application/product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear. I get that in a normal company, the finances might in fact dictate that the company can no longer support the user base with the revenue collected. With Google.. these free services seem to disappear with little warning. (to be fair: 4 years of not updating the official B…
I'm still upset about Google Reader...
I was Hulk Smash level angry when they pulled the plug on Reader. So much so I just went into every Google system and closed out my use. The only things I haven't been able to abandon are Gmail and Picasa. This helps me trim out one more service.
Re: Moving on from Picasa
#158My wife and I take a lot of pictures on our smartphones. What service can I pay for that will: - Automatically upload our pictures from our smartphone - Keep them private, viewable only to use, or family members. - Nice gallery feature. - Easy to export all data in one go. I will pay cold hard cash for this. My wife will decapitate me if I lose our backup pictures of our kids when they were babies.
Flickr or SmugMug. Flickr would probably require some tuning, as it's built as a social, not private photo-keeping, tool. SmugMug, though, is targeting professional photographers, so high-res, galleries, exporting is all there. Flickr pricing is kinda off-putting - $0 for 1TB, $499 for 2TB.
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Re: Moving on from Picasa
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flickr or SmugMug. Flickr would probably require some tuning, as it's built as a social, not private photo-keeping, tool. SmugMug, though, is targeting professional photographers, so high-res, galleries, exporting is all there. Flickr pricing is kinda off-putting - $0 for 1TB, $499 for 2TB.
Thanks for the mention! Appreciate it. :) The bulk of our business (2/3rds of subscribers) is non-Pro. We come off as fairly professional (and we love our Pros!), but I think that's mostly because we have a huge emphasis on presentation. Our philosophy is, if you care about photos enough to pay for somewhere great to keep them safe and show them off with the people you care about, you're in the club. We'd love to hav…
Oh, and I should mention we've had unlimited storage for a reasonable yearly fee for nearly 14 years.
Re: Moving on from Picasa
#160I feel like companies that shut a product down should release source code. Then people who still want to use it can continue development. If the company doesn't offer it anymore, why do they need to keep the code secret?
That's like trying to move a fully locked-in AWS service to your own hardware. Probably all of its dependencies are Google cloud infrastructure and you have to rewrite the client layer to replace them with anything open.
There's a desktop Picasa client. That could be released as a standalone.