Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 8:37 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #17

CamelCaseName wrote: post #6

In Google's defense: 1. This was announced over 3 years ago [0] 2. Photos/Videos uploaded to Picasa were transferred to Google Photos automatically (comments/tags/captions will be lost though) [1] 3. Picasa was originally built in 2002! (bought by Google in 2004) -- Perhaps Picasa had a time and place? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa#Discontinuation [1] https://picasa.google.com/

Yeah, I'm often one to criticise Google, but an entirely free cloud-based photo album was never going to be around forever. If you are very concerned with keeping an online record for all time you really shouldn't be depending on free stuff like Picasa.

Post by acomjean » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 8:43 PM UTC

matwood wrote: post #19

pgrote wrote: post #10

Really miss picasa. I know the world is moving away from tagging your photos with descriptive words, but I still do it. As with any Picasa related subject: Does anyone have a viable alternative desktop software that allows tagging of photos, some mild editing and allowing photos to be kept in folders that are the albums.

It's not free, but Lightroom is the canonical software for this purpose.

Post by Eric_WVGG » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 8:47 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #17

CamelCaseName wrote: post #6

In Google's defense: 1. This was announced over 3 years ago [0] 2. Photos/Videos uploaded to Picasa were transferred to Google Photos automatically (comments/tags/captions will be lost though) [1] 3. Picasa was originally built in 2002! (bought by Google in 2004) -- Perhaps Picasa had a time and place? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa#Discontinuation [1] https://picasa.google.com/

Yeah, I'm often one to criticise Google, but an entirely free cloud-based photo album was never going to be around forever. If you are very concerned with keeping an online record for all time you really shouldn't be depending on free stuff like Picasa.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 8:54 PM UTC

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #25

untog wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I'm often one to criticise Google, but an entirely free cloud-based photo album was never going to be around forever. If you are very concerned with keeping an online record for all time you really shouldn't be depending on free stuff like Picasa.

Maybe, but it would also cost Google almost nothing to set up a 301 redirect from Picasa URLs to Google Photos. I wouldn't expect someone like Yahoo or Microsoft to bother, but being a “good web citizen” seems intrinsic to the Google corporate identity, after all.

Post by pjc50 » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 8:57 PM UTC

scarmig wrote: post #8

It's interesting that Amazon's approach of building products and killing them off if they don't improve the bottom line earns praise, while Google's similar one endlessly pisses people off.