A lot of people who used Google Blogger hosted images for the blog in Picasa. If the URL's break a lot of old blogs will lose content.
The blogger photo are still there and hosted in Google Photos Backend. The urls will continue to work.
Moving on from Picasa
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#192I'm tired of these shutter-downers! They broke a gazillion URLs! At the same time they penalize you if you do similarly!
Where do you get the impression that "a gazillion URLs" broke?
Picasa Web Albums will continue working until the album archive view is ready.
Also, all of the photo from PWA are hosted in Google Photos Backend - and will continue to be hosted there. There are accessible in Google Photos and the URLs will continue to work.
If you haven't seen it, the original blog post has better information than the linked article: http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-pica...
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#193Ah, the fun (irony here). Before user-end computing can regain a semblance of sensibility we will need to move towards guaranteed secure sandbox environments for apps that allow historical re-use of earlier versions. What is happening at the moment is that IMMENSE quantities of skill development and time is continually flushed away everytime Google/Microsoft/Take-your-pick-software-company decides to retire or dramat…
Isn't this why standards exist? We have standard image formats (jpg, dng). Even standard metadata formats (xmp, exif).
Why can't we have a standard for image libraries, albums, and storage that can work on a smartphone or desktop? It sure would make it easier to roll your own imports, exports, backups. It would be easier to move your stuff when Apple shuts down Aperture, Google shuts down Picasa, you switch smartphone OSs, you decide to quit Facebook, etc. Some XML or some JSON amirite?
If 1 or 2 big players got on board, I feel like others would follow. But I'm probably wrong.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's at least two of us then. Reader is what made me swear never to rely on a Google service for anything ever again.
I don't get it though. Yea, it was a dick move they did not just open source the backend reader server code so people could just selfhost a replacement, but they did let you export your feeds and now we have a half dozen reasonable or good reader replacements that do the same job, and most of them copied Google's UI to attract old reader users. It was one of the most seamless transitions besides the lack of good Andr…
I don't think that "just" is the right prefix for "open source the backend reader server code". Moving it off of Google's internal infrastructure would have been a major project.
Re: Moving on from Picasa
#195Open Source Picasa Google, release it instead of letting him die instead of forcing poor users into your identity crysis.
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#196So when is Google+ dying. That whole project is such an embarrassment...
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#197Many years ago I became so disillusioned with the state of photo management (churn, inscalability, vendor lock-in, lack of Linux support, etc.) I built my own. Have never looked back - I will never enter metadata into a propriety system again.
Auto-tagging AI makes me a bit envious though.
Re: Moving on from Picasa
#198A good time to dig up an old article of mine: https://rocketeer.be/blog/2015/05/google-photos/ (Google Photos - Can I get out?)
My biggest complaint still stands: no true API (which is what made flickr great).
Love Google Photos, add a real API and it'll be even better.
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#199Huge 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…
Picasa web albums has hardly disappeared. It was replaced by Google Photos (then Google+ photos) a couple years ago. They left the old interface around for years to allow people to transition over at their own pace, you can't really expect a better migration path than that.
How long before Google+ bites the dust? Sounds ludicrous, right? Until it happens.
Lesson is: either pay for it, or support open source.
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#200I stopped using Google photos the moment it decided that it was time to start duplicating all my photos and then storing the duplicates in my iPhone library where they will be pushed to iCloud and from there to all my other machines.
I know that syncing is hard and I can totally see that it's probably unwise to let both apple and Google have a go at the same time, but I would have hoped for this not to happen. Google Photos sharing features, search and their automated trip album builder are much better than apple's, but apples sync keeps the pictures synced natively between all my devices which is a very useful thing to have.