Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
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Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
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Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
#2I wouldn't depend on Google for anything.
Maybe self-hosting needs to be made easier for the average person? The web has so much bandwidth now that there's no reason outside of potential security issues that people can't be posting more of their own stuff(like a web).
Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
#3Add this to the list of reasons why you should not rely on cloud providers for anything you actually care about.
Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
#4I wouldn't depend on Google for anything. Maybe self-hosting needs to be made easier for the average person? The web has so much bandwidth now that there's no reason outside of potential security issues that people can't be posting more of their own stuff(like a web ).
It's far easier, more scalable, and more secure now than it's ever been, and people quite simply don't want it. I wish it weren't so, but people prefer staying inside walled gardens to homesteading.
Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
#5I wouldn't depend on Google for anything. Maybe self-hosting needs to be made easier for the average person? The web has so much bandwidth now that there's no reason outside of potential security issues that people can't be posting more of their own stuff(like a web ).
Self-hosting has become shamefully easy now with Docker Hub and cheap VPSen in the "cloud".
It really is a one-liner to spin up a new service on your server nowadays.
Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
#6In 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?
Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
#7I wouldn't depend on Google for anything. Maybe self-hosting needs to be made easier for the average person? The web has so much bandwidth now that there's no reason outside of potential security issues that people can't be posting more of their own stuff(like a web ).
Self-hosting has become shamefully easy now with Docker Hub and cheap VPSen in the "cloud". It really is a one-liner to spin up a new service on your server nowadays.
If you know what a console is.
Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
#8It'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.
Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
#9Re: Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
#10Really 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.