Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

Post by seba_dos1 » Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 3:18 PM UTC

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I still miss google reader and Picasa. I don’t think I will ever get over those two losses.

I realize google reader was a popular app, especially among the hn crowd. But there's been how many years since reader? Why hasn't anyone duplicated exactly the reader experience? The truth is that you miss the world in which google reader could exist. Free, unfettered, unabridged access to full length articles in a highly consumable format is not a thing that most publishers are behind now. They want your eyes on th…

Post by psanford » Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 3:58 PM UTC

sergimansilla wrote: post #105

psanford wrote: post #58

Its really frustrating that there's no good, opensource, Android media backup tool. I just want a simple app that will auto upload photos and videos to an https endpoint (or an S3 bucket). There are a few tools out there but they all seem to have bit rotted to the point where they don't work reliably on modern Android.

PhotoSync is actually very good: https://www.photosync-app.com

Post by llimos » Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 5:03 PM UTC

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I still miss google reader and Picasa. I don’t think I will ever get over those two losses.

Any good replacements? I mean, if people really miss Picasa (and I personally know several) -- it's worthwhile to reimplement it and make money.

Post by wlesieutre » Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 6:17 PM UTC

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I still miss google reader and Picasa. I don’t think I will ever get over those two losses.

Once upon a time I volunteered on an Eagle Scout project, scanning boxes of old photos to digitize the whole collection. We thought "Google is a big tech company, this should stick around." Got about 10 years out of it, which strikes me as pretty average for a tech product, but not great for a photo archive. Hell of a lot shorter than "4x6s in a shoebox." At least that was a desktop app and they still have their data…

Post by XCSme » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 12:49 AM UTC

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Google seems to be in some “cut all expenses” mode recently: + cancelled stadia game studio + cancelled free unlimited google photos + closed Chromium APIs for derived browsers + closed Google Music (replaced with YT Music) + froze hiring + cancelled new office leases

Google is hiring just fine. (Source: I'm hiring. I work for Google. Also careers.google.com.)