On 04/01/2019 20:31, sobriquet wrote:

Hi.

In the past I've used picasaweb and what I liked about it was
that when I was sharing an album of pictures, people could easily
click on a link to get to an overview of all albums shared by me.

I wonder why this is no longer seems possible with google
photos. I can share a particular album via a link, but then
the person receiving this link doesn't seem to have any way to
get to an overview of all albums I'm sharing on google photos.
It feels like google is imposing some unreasonable restrictions
on my freedom to share pictures.
Sure, some people might prefer it if they can share an album
without giving people access to all the pictures or all the
albums they share, but why is this not an option so people
get to pick what suits their preferences?

Google photos offers a lot of free space (especially considering
that flickr recently dramatically downgraded their free photo
sharing space from 1 TB to something like 1000 pictures), but
it seems to be kind of useless for photosharing if you can't
even do something basic like providing an overview of shared
albums via a link (like it used to be possible via picasa
webalbums).


I don't have an obvious answer to your questions beyond those published
by Flickr. Google's sharing and compression arrangements are I'd have
thought to do with its business model, and monetising data.

I used Flickr a lot. I used it well within the new 1000 pics limit - the
biggest limitation for me came recently with the removal of Photos (the
Mac picture manager and basic editor) integration.

So I now use a 200GB cloud service from Apple - about $3/month. Just
makes life simpler, and I can use it to back up other data. An example:

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0z532ODWLFRHJ

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Cheers, Rob