Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down • Hacker News Board

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by aesthetics1 » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 11:01 PM UTC

blintzing wrote: post #6

jeffgreco wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure they aren't. All of my Google+ photos wound up in Google Photos without any work on my part, other than maybe actually accessing photos.google.com.

Isn't it funny that we're even having this conversation? That Google can offer two products, differentiated by a single character (Google+ Photos and Google Photos), with few obvious indicators as to which I should use? It's confusing to me, but trying to explain it to my mom is absolutely impossible. I wonder whether the average user even knows there's a difference between the two. It's a perfect example of unnecess…

I really feel like it is just to cleanse it of the connection to Google+. The product should have been an evolution of Google+ Photos, but they are clearly trying to de-couple services from Google+.

Look at the Inbox vs Gmail experiment for example. While not tied to Google+, Inbox runs parallel to Gmail and accesses the same things. Just a different window dressing. I'm sure many at Google want to see Inbox take over Gmail at some point.

This is one of the reasons I doubt we ever see a Material Design Gmail. I think they'll run with it until Inbox is "ready".

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by aaron-lebo » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 11:05 PM UTC

aesthetics1 wrote: post #8

I imagine in the coming months (years?) we will see Google transition away from Google+ as a catchall platform, and back to standalone solutions similar to their offerings from the pre-Google+ days. A bit off-topic: I think it's the right move for them. Google+ was (and still is) a pretty cool platform. It has a lot of neat features that existing social networks lack. Facebook just somehow holds on to their userbase…

What are some of the parts of G+ that you particularly like?

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by serve_yay » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 11:05 PM UTC

aesthetics1 wrote: post #8

I imagine in the coming months (years?) we will see Google transition away from Google+ as a catchall platform, and back to standalone solutions similar to their offerings from the pre-Google+ days. A bit off-topic: I think it's the right move for them. Google+ was (and still is) a pretty cool platform. It has a lot of neat features that existing social networks lack. Facebook just somehow holds on to their userbase…

The number of unread Facebook messages I have is not printed on 30% of all the web pages I visit. This is what I find so irritating about Google+, it's everywhere it doesn't need to be. Comparisons to things like Twitter and FB fall flat for this reason.

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by drivingmenuts » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 11:06 PM UTC

How many photo products has Google had? Have any of them been successful?

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by c5karl » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 11:06 PM UTC

How much longer before they kill Picasa and Picasaweb, which just provide a different UI (and different editing software) for the same archive of photos?

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by jlebar » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 11:07 PM UTC

serve_yay wrote: post #13

aesthetics1 wrote: post #8

I imagine in the coming months (years?) we will see Google transition away from Google+ as a catchall platform, and back to standalone solutions similar to their offerings from the pre-Google+ days. A bit off-topic: I think it's the right move for them. Google+ was (and still is) a pretty cool platform. It has a lot of neat features that existing social networks lack. Facebook just somehow holds on to their userbase…

The number of unread Facebook messages I have is not printed on 30% of all the web pages I visit. This is what I find so irritating about Google+, it's everywhere it doesn't need to be. Comparisons to things like Twitter and FB fall flat for this reason.

I'm not excusing this -- it annoys me too -- but you can set up a user style [1] to hide this element.

[1] e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by saurik » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 11:10 PM UTC

drivingmenuts wrote: post #14

How many photo products has Google had? Have any of them been successful?

I thought people liked the Picasa app? (But then again, I never used it myself ;P.)

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by hackaflocka » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 11:11 PM UTC

Why can't they fold it in with the new Photos service?

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by pnathan » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 11:12 PM UTC

aesthetics1 wrote: post #8

I imagine in the coming months (years?) we will see Google transition away from Google+ as a catchall platform, and back to standalone solutions similar to their offerings from the pre-Google+ days. A bit off-topic: I think it's the right move for them. Google+ was (and still is) a pretty cool platform. It has a lot of neat features that existing social networks lack. Facebook just somehow holds on to their userbase…

I actually have really enjoyed the UI for G+. I think it's really a technically excellent platform that has totally failed to execute well on the userbase side.

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by justicezyx » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 11:13 PM UTC

jlebar wrote: post #16

serve_yay wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The number of unread Facebook messages I have is not printed on 30% of all the web pages I visit. This is what I find so irritating about Google+, it's everywhere it doesn't need to be. Comparisons to things like Twitter and FB fall flat for this reason.

I'm not excusing this -- it annoys me too -- but you can set up a user style [1] to hide this element. [1] e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/

The comment is not about solving the problem, it is about "there are so many problems, this is one of them"...