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Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Post by lawrenceyan »

marcinzm wrote: post #75
lawrenceyan wrote: post #35

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Mostly because people don't really use any of the products Amazon releases at scale. There's a reason why it's called Google scale and not Amazon scale. Also because as humans, we're generally more inclined to dogpile onto the Goliath and root for the David. Underdogs almost always get treated more leniently.

>Mostly because people don't really use any of the products Amazon releases at scale. AWS would beg to differ. However, Amazon has been very good at not getting rid of AWS services so it's reputation is that it's at scale services are going to stay safe.

Maybe to clarify better, it's the bunches of ancillary products and services I'm talking about. Core items like AWS and Google Cloud are of course by definition going to require an inherent scalability to be meaningful.

Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Post by Forge36 »

laurynas-s wrote: post #71

When Google will be shutting down Google Photos? Of course, it is going to happen eventually. However, I do have a dozen of photos there with no easy way to export hiqh quality photos in one go that worries me.

Google takeout was great for this. I did it last month and backed up 60gb of photos.

Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Post by naasking »

ucaetano wrote: post #78
naasking wrote: post #70

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> while Google's similar one endlessly pisses people off. Maybe it's because we know Google is profiting off of our private information, and we don't make a stink about that because they're giving us free stuff. But why shouldn't we be upset when they stop giving us the free stuff we like? They're still profiting off of our private information aren't they? Amazon just isn't in the same boat.

What if they simply don't profit enough to justify giving you free stuff?

I never said they were wrong to deprecate unprofitable services, I'm just saying that it's not like the outrage is coming from nowhere, or has no justification.

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Post by discreditable »

laurynas-s wrote: post #79
discreditable wrote: post #74

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Exporting is easy. On desktop you can select photos and download a zip. You can also download them with Google Backup and Sync if you enable the option to show photos in Google Drive.

There is a limit thought when I tried to export from web some time ago. It was 500-2000 photos or something. I probably have over 30000 photos there so it's a long process to download them all.

The desktop sync client is probably the way to go then.

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Post by [deleted] »

oarsinsync wrote: post #64
peterwwillis wrote: post #13

As George Lopez would say, Why you crying? You chose to use someone's free platform to host and display your pictures with virtually no work on your part, and now you don't get the free lunch anymore. These scenarios are actually useful. They train people to use solutions that are open and portable, which will help them respond to unexpected disasters in the future. Use a self-hosted CMS to build, manage and publish…

> These scenarios are actually useful. They train people to use solutions that are open and portable, which will help them respond to unexpected disasters in the future. Use a self-hosted CMS to build, manage and publish your content so you can re-publish your content somewhere else. If you're able to point to an open and portable self-hosted CMS that has an equivalent feature set to Picasa (and not a minor subset th…

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Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Post by Rebelgecko »

ucaetano wrote: post #77
mhdhn wrote: post #30

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Hello Gmail users! :)

You really shouldn't count on having Gmail available forever! Or even for a few years.

If you use Inbox, you can't count on it being available for more than few weeks :(

Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Post by marcinzm »

lawrenceyan wrote: post #81
marcinzm wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Mostly because people don't really use any of the products Amazon releases at scale. AWS would beg to differ. However, Amazon has been very good at not getting rid of AWS services so it's reputation is that it's at scale services are going to stay safe.

Maybe to clarify better, it's the bunches of ancillary products and services I'm talking about. Core items like AWS and Google Cloud are of course by definition going to require an inherent scalability to be meaningful.

AWS is not a single service but a large collection of separate services that interconnect. Some of which are quiet old and not exactly cutting edge. Yet they don't get deprecated.

Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Post by emanuensis »

ravenstine wrote: post #2

I wouldn't depend on Google for anything. Maybe self-hosting needs to be made easier for the average person? The web has so much bandwidth now that there's no reason outside of potential security issues that people can't be posting more of their own stuff(like a web ).

i have the additional requirement that it survives my death ... which rules out anything one has to pay for, or ping every x months, and self hosting (even ones house disappears on ones death).

The solution i have found so far is GitHub Pages. It seems the website, though static, can be arbitrarily deep and large.

Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Post by gpshead »

pgrote wrote: post #10

Really miss picasa. I know the world is moving away from tagging your photos with descriptive words, but I still do it. As with any Picasa related subject: Does anyone have a viable alternative desktop software that allows tagging of photos, some mild editing and allowing photos to be kept in folders that are the albums.

Flickr, the progenetor of photo tagging, remains a great place to do that.

Desktop in 2019? good luck. Adobe or Apple.

Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

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Post by bynkman »

Baeocystin wrote: post #39
pgrote wrote: post #10

Really miss picasa. I know the world is moving away from tagging your photos with descriptive words, but I still do it. As with any Picasa related subject: Does anyone have a viable alternative desktop software that allows tagging of photos, some mild editing and allowing photos to be kept in folders that are the albums.

Picasa's flow is still the best quick-edit system I've used. I am comfortable with Lightroom & Photoshop, and they're great tools. But Picasa did a stellar job of balancing simple/lightweight/fast/useful in a manner I haven't seen replicated anywhere else.

I'm glad somebody said this. I totally agree. I still use the Picasa desktop software. It's brilliant for picking out best pics and tweaking them. The web interface just doesn't compare.

When they announced that the desktop software was going away, I immediately downloaded the final version and archived it away. More than likely I will use it until Windows no longer supports it... unless someone "makes a better Picasa".

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