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Another one for the graveyard ( https://killedbygoogle.com/ )
That lists just about everything even if an app just got merged 1:1 into another app. It's so dumb and doesn't even add context, may be valid to add in this case but often it's just dumb
Isn't that part of the meme? Why does Google have so many similar products that it's possible to merge them 1:1?
This appears to be NEITHER your "Archive" NOR your albums in Google Photos. This is basically a collection of media you uploaded to Blogger, Hangouts, and Picasa Web Albums. Still, doesn't hurt to Takeout your Google Photos every ~6 months. (I am working on an app that will help you organize and view them, together with your text messages, location history, and other online-only data.)
So troubled to hear that a product I never used might disappear and that the impact might be massive for me... or not.
The email I got says that Album Archive is shutting down, that I accessed it yesterday, and that I should use Google Takeout to export a single photo that I can't access (?). So I got to Google Takeout and I'm told that I have one export remaining. None of this makes any sense. I have never heard of any of these. I'm really surprised at how bad Google is at making products given how much money they have and the level…
Same. I thought my account might have been comprised after seeing this email.
Hedge funds are demanding Google downsize more than it already has. Layoffs look bad so they may be disguising more layoofs by shutting down products - Domains especially likely requires a few hundred engineers and UI/UX people across the many aspects of the service.
No hedge fund owns enough Alphabet shares to be able to order the company around.
This appears to be NEITHER your "Archive" NOR your albums in Google Photos. This is basically a collection of media you uploaded to Blogger, Hangouts, and Picasa Web Albums. Still, doesn't hurt to Takeout your Google Photos every ~6 months. (I am working on an app that will help you organize and view them, together with your text messages, location history, and other online-only data.)
I would be extremely interested in a Google Takeout viewer if you ever end up releasing one. I dealt with Google Takeout, trying to export my photos to Apple Photos (when Google was planning to charge money for old Google Workspace accounts), and I found it extremely difficult to deal with the file format. The script I wrote ( https://github.com/citelao/google_photos_takeout_to_apple_ph... ) ended up being decently r…
If you want an invite to try out an early dev preview today, follow @timelinize on Twitter and tweet at it, I'll see about getting you into the Discord.
Some background:
Saving a local copy of my Google Photos has been a passion project of mine since ~2014 (before Google Photos even!). For years it was only focused on downloading the data using APIs -- but then we found out that Google strips location data (from your own photos!) if using the API, so I added Takeout support.
The problem is there was no viewer. Well in 2019 I finally started working on a viewer. It has evolved a lot since it's a very ambitious project and there's nothing quite like it.
It's not just Google Photos: it's any photos and videos. It's also for your text messages and emails. And your location history. And contact list. And chat apps. And really, any files you have. It also supports Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram account exports too. Oh, and iPhone backups.
Timelinize is entity-aware, and it can map identities across data sources (with enough info, or with a manual mapping, or some optional heuristics). It's just not a photo gallery.
It's basically a really detailed view of your life and online history. It's neat because I have my family pictures, my text messages between me and my wife when we were dating (and after of course), and there's different views to explore: map, timeline, conversations, gallery, and more to come (calendar, etc).
We can even place non-geolocated data on a map since we can correlate timestamp and entity. So when we went on our honeymoon, I can see text messages received from friends while we were driving to a beach.
It's really quite immersive and magical and I haven't seen anything quite like it.
And everything is stored on your own computer, it's a GUI app and you have to have enough space to store your stuff. The data is just organized as files within a folder on disk, with a SQLite DB holding the index and the small textual items.
Whoever sent this email should be reprimanded. The vast majority of recipients have never used this "product". The images will not be deleted when it's killed because they actually reside in other products such as Blogger and will still be downloadable using Takeout[1], so approximately nobody needed to be notified. But now this is yet another PR cycle for the "Google kills everything" meme. [1] https://support.googl…
> Whoever sent this email should be reprimanded. I have never heard/used this product. Maybe there were layoffs and no one cares...or an uninformed individual sent the mass email with short notice. Either way, very telling! Also bad press is good press, I guess?
Still didn’t understand what exactly this was or how I used it, so I clicked. 30% of the screen (on mobile) is a banner telling me I should be using chrome. Another 40% banner is telling me the site is going away soon soon soon. Another 10% is exhorting me to make connections with my account so others can see my (soon to be deleted) photos. And the remainder of the screen is an empty gray box, with no photos or other content, just gray as far as the eye can see (until you hit one of the aforementioned banners); all that remains in light gray letters is the text “Looks like you’ve reached the end.”
A real modern day Ozymandias.
Whoever sent this email should be reprimanded. The vast majority of recipients have never used this "product". The images will not be deleted when it's killed because they actually reside in other products such as Blogger and will still be downloadable using Takeout[1], so approximately nobody needed to be notified. But now this is yet another PR cycle for the "Google kills everything" meme. [1] https://support.googl…
Even for the subject line alone. "An update to X" is a terrible summary in general but particularly for "We're deleting X".
Whoever sent this email should be reprimanded. The vast majority of recipients have never used this "product". The images will not be deleted when it's killed because they actually reside in other products such as Blogger and will still be downloadable using Takeout[1], so approximately nobody needed to be notified. But now this is yet another PR cycle for the "Google kills everything" meme. [1] https://support.googl…
This appears to be NEITHER your "Archive" NOR your albums in Google Photos. This is basically a collection of media you uploaded to Blogger, Hangouts, and Picasa Web Albums. Still, doesn't hurt to Takeout your Google Photos every ~6 months. (I am working on an app that will help you organize and view them, together with your text messages, location history, and other online-only data.)
Just one correction. You should only run Takeout once and then delete all your Google accounts and never look back.