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Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by mvgoogler »

icefox wrote: post #43
zatkin wrote: post #40

>"They already made us abandon our "picasaweb" stuff for Google+ Photos. Killing off Google+ Photos sends the clear message "do not rely on Google for your photo storage needs". Not that shuffling gigabytes of photos around every couple of years isn't fun but, well, it isn't fun." From the TechCrunch comments.

Having just spend part of a week moving off of Google code and now this I am beginning to seriously question my choice to use gmail for my domain email. As someone that uses blogger we didn't have a choice and all photos hosted on blogger got moved to the old picasa years ago and got "upgraded" several times. I wonder what the implications are for this. Will I have to fix all my blog entries? Probably easier to just…

You shouldn't have to change anything.

The blogger photos will still be stored in the same place and the urls should continue to work.

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by scrollaway »

tdicola wrote: post #25
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…

Can they bring Google Reader back now? I'm still bitter about it being killed to focus on Google+. Now that Google+ is dead in the water it makes the decision to kill Reader even worse.

I recommend Bazqux.com. It is similar to Google Reader in many ways, the UI is very familiar as well, and it lets you log in with a Google account if you like.

It is paid-for, although very cheap (and first month free). I ended up buying a life-subscription. I really miss Google Reader as well.

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by rconti »

aesthetics1 wrote: post #21
aaron-lebo wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Location sharing in realtime is one feature my wife and I still use to keep track of each other. Even if I can't answer the phone (in a meeting, didn't hear it go off) she can take a look and see where I am. Hangouts is great. Remember that Hangouts launched as a part of Google+ before breaking out. Ironically, Google+ Photos is also one of my favorites. If you snapped photos on a vacation, you may return to find tha…

IMO, hangouts is infuriatingly bad. It's way too keystroke-intensive to sign in and sign out of accounts in the iOS app; the Chrome app (plugin?) thing is terrible and the functionality seems to change every other week.

I can't count on them not breaking notifications (such as those for when I receive a message while signed out) in new and exciting ways at random times, and... well, it's just terrible in all kinds of ways.

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by berberous »

tdicola wrote: post #34
jonursenbach wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Reader was in maintenance mode for years, and companies that appeared when it disappeared have gone above and beyond what they offered. See: Feedly.com

Feedly has improved a lot but it still doesn't display feeds as densely as Reader did and I feel a lot slower getting through a lot of feeds. Searching for articles was fantastic on Google Reader, but with Feedly it never works. Maybe I need to pay to enable search? Ultimately search 'just worked' on Google Reader and never works for me on Feedly. If Reader was in maintenance mode then that's even worse to have kille…

Do you use Feedly? Are you in "Title Only" mode? It's pretty dense -- I might be misremembering, but I'm not sure how Google could have been denser.

I was very bitter about Google Reader ending at first, but honestly, Feedly is fantastic and I'm now glad it closed. That said, I don't use the search feature, so perhaps that's not as good as Google's was.

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by snogglethorpe »

aesthetics1 wrote: post #11
blintzing wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ove…

Gmail and Inbox are very different.

The latter is not a replacement for the former, which many many people depend on, so the only way Gmail is going away is if Inbox evolves to be it...

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by dragonwriter »

georgehm wrote: post #52

Just came to know that it is not possible to rearrange (organize option from G+ photos) photos in an album.. its strange Google missed it...

Organization seems to be the most common missing feature from Google cloud offerings (its, IMO, the biggest problem when you have more than a few items in Google Play Books.)

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by sorenjan »

aesthetics1 wrote: post #21
aaron-lebo wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Location sharing in realtime is one feature my wife and I still use to keep track of each other. Even if I can't answer the phone (in a meeting, didn't hear it go off) she can take a look and see where I am. Hangouts is great. Remember that Hangouts launched as a part of Google+ before breaking out. Ironically, Google+ Photos is also one of my favorites. If you snapped photos on a vacation, you may return to find tha…

Looks like location sharing is being moved from Google+ soon too [1], and the auto awesome features in Google+ photos are still available in Google Photos. I use Google+ mainly to share photos, they're already there backed up from my phone, so it's convenient.

[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/07/20/apk-teardown-google-...

Re: Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

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Post by extc »

tdicola wrote: post #25
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…

Can they bring Google Reader back now? I'm still bitter about it being killed to focus on Google+. Now that Google+ is dead in the water it makes the decision to kill Reader even worse.

What's obnoxious is that everyone watching from the outside knew all these forced G+ moves were annoying and not welcome. One of the worst outcomes, imo, is the addition of G+ comments on YouTube videos - you end up with comments like "Check this out" in the video's actual comments section. Those comments are completely useless and destroy any sort of conversation, if it's even possible to have one in YT comments.
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