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Heads up on the term 'grandfathering' and the racial overtones of what this means: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/10/21/239081586...
What term should be used instead?
sunset?
Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
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Why not just pay $30/yr to get access to all the features which Google Photos (and other Google services) offer? I know $30 is not the same everywhere but if you are in US (and assuming you are in tech given you are on HN), you'd spend that much in a dinner without thinking much. There is something about paying about online services which brings a lot of resistance in us (me included but I think I am getting over it)
Realistically... if you wanted to pay $30/year for a set and forget photo album, is Google the best place to do that? Given how they often they deprecate things and how hard I've heard it is to restore a disabled account, I feel like some kind of smaller company dedicated to photo storage would be much better anyway
Personally I use Flickr and am happy with them.
Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
#233Surprised to see the level of anger here about this. This is not the usual "Google kills product", it's the type of thing that HN loves to say they would be happy to pay for ("Just give me something that does A B C and doesn't show me ads and I would be happy to pay for it!!!", well I guess until you are actually asked to pay for it). Also, as a general rule, people should welcome big cos moving away from the "free s…
I think offering something for free and unlimited for 10 years and suddenly charging for it seems like bait and switch. If you have an existing free unlimited plan they should grandfather that in. In a year they will start charging for gmail. In two or three they will start charging for search.
If they start charging for search then 1/3 of Earth will use Baidu, 1/3 DuckDuckGo, and 1/3 Bing.
Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
#234Surprised to see the level of anger here about this. This is not the usual "Google kills product", it's the type of thing that HN loves to say they would be happy to pay for ("Just give me something that does A B C and doesn't show me ads and I would be happy to pay for it!!!", well I guess until you are actually asked to pay for it). Also, as a general rule, people should welcome big cos moving away from the "free s…
I think offering something for free and unlimited for 10 years and suddenly charging for it seems like bait and switch. If you have an existing free unlimited plan they should grandfather that in. In a year they will start charging for gmail. In two or three they will start charging for search.
>In two or three they will start charging for search
I would say you win for the most moronic thing uttered on the internet today.. but then there are other things going on right now which actually do beat you. Don't worry, I'm sure you will win another day.
Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
#235I ve been waiting fr this. I am going to build my cloud storage product. Only difference will be in pricing and bucket size.
Here is how it ll go Steps of 10 Gb - 20 rs/month no fixed plans like google or apple. This will save users some money. mc-mu(u+1)*1.69/2 this is the cost equation, basically this will give u the amount of money you will lose by going with a fixed plan say 100GB over my suggested 10GB steps. eg. if u only generate 1GB per month you ll lose ~4400rs due to unused space if you go with 100GB plan.
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#236Sad as I am to see "unlimited" go away, this is probably the best way to do it: * Grandfathering existing photos means I don't have to worry about going back and deleting objects or getting an sudden bump in cost. * 15 GB is pretty generous... iCloud includes 5GB for free. * $2/month isn't a huge jump to the next level of storage.
And what a shame iCloud's included storage is. One device's backups can dangerously close to 5gb without trying, and any additional device backups will easily push you over 5gb, effectively forcing you into the $1/mo storage plan or $4/mo if you want to share 200gb total with your family.
Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
#237Time to dust off my side project, Timeliner [1] which downloads your Google Photos (and other content from various services) and indexes them in a local SQLite DB. Then after backing them up locally, I won't feel bad about deleting them from the cloud later to free up space. I've been using Timeliner for a while but need to update it. New maintainers welcomed, if you're interested! (One major "oof" is that the Google…
It's so annoying that Google strips the geolocation data. What would be the reason for this? It has been frustrating following along with the ticket that goes nowhere for years: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/80379228
As andybak says, almost certainly privacy. It's very easy for an unsophisticated user to share photos that, for example, effectively show where they live (or where someone else lives). I believe Facebook strips geo data as well. (A service like Flickr does not although I assume there is a switch somewhere that tells it to.)
Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
#238Has anyone found a good family friendly alternative? In particular I would really like to: - Pay for the service (sustainable/trustworthy business model) - Be able to very tightly control access to albums as I really don't want kid photos ending up on facebook or similar due to crazy aunt kathy (in google photos anyone with access can add anyone else and until recently there was no way to remove people) - Ability to…
We use Tinybeans and it checks all your boxes.
Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
#239Has anyone found a good family friendly alternative? In particular I would really like to: - Pay for the service (sustainable/trustworthy business model) - Be able to very tightly control access to albums as I really don't want kid photos ending up on facebook or similar due to crazy aunt kathy (in google photos anyone with access can add anyone else and until recently there was no way to remove people) - Ability to…
www.smugmug.com
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"Running out" == "Doesn't want to give away for free" I don't see any limits on Google Cloud Storage any time soon. > Google Drive to delete trash after 30 days. To be fair I would consider this a feature. This is how I expect trash to work. Someone takes it away on occasion. > Google Docs to be counted as storage space Oh, I missed this. I wonder how they are counting it? After all as a user you don't really have an…
> "Running out" == "Doesn't want to give away for free" All these limits were placed within the last few months. It's definitely a company wide policy to reduce load from free users > I don't see any limits on Google Cloud Storage any time soon. It's paid. > Google Drive to delete trash after 30 days. It used to be unlimited. Now it isn't. Which is what people expected. > Oh, I missed this. I wonder how they are coun…
> Not sure, but they might just add up the space taken by individual files?
My point is that there is no "file" for Google Docs. They are some rows in a database somewhere. Probably some update rows and the occasional snapshot proto.
I guess it is no less arbitrary than a MS Office file, but since you can see the file on your disk you know the intrinsic size.
I'm definitely not saying they should give away the storage for free. But it is an interesting problem for how to count this in a user-understandable way.