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Google Plus attempts to ruin Picasa Web
Oct. 6th, 2013 02:24 pmI used to keep my online pictures on LJ, but the "improvements" to their already difficult photo gallery drove me away from that. I tried PhotoBucket, but it was very slow and had the tools for managing albums scattered all over their interface. Then I found Picasa, and it seemed perfect! I downloaded the desktop version of Picasa for managing pics on my computer and love it for that. And hey, look! You can create albums on your computer and upload them to an online photo sharing site with one click. Awesome.
I didn't realize that Google had already bought PicasaWeb at that point and was slowly starting to "migrate" it to Google+. I do have a Google+ account, but have never warmed up to it. I liked the idea of circles, but simply cannot master the constantly changing user interface. This didn't matter because I don't know very many people who use Google+ anyway, so I just forgot about it.
Then I tried to upload some new Picasa albums to PicasaWeb and they all ended up on Google+ instead. When I go to PicasaWeb I can see the Google+ albums, but the privacy settings are different and seem to collide with each other. Both sites use the term "public" but it seems to mean different things. I prefer to make most of my online albums public so I can post links to them elsewhere. But I think that when I make them "public" on Google+ they immediately inflict themselves on everybody in all my circles, whether they are interested in my family holiday pictures or not. I'm not quite sure there - I really can't figure out what the Google+ privacy settings mean. And I still don't know if a Google+ "public" album is visible to people who are not Google+ members.
And I don't know what happens when I try to link to such an album from someplace external, like... here. Thus this entry. Here's a link to pictures from last year's Thanksgiving trip to San Jose. That ones goes to Google Plus.
For comparison, here is a link to the same album through Picasaweb.
If anyone wants to let me know how these links work for them, that would be nice. If you can view the album through both links, which one do you like better?
I didn't realize that Google had already bought PicasaWeb at that point and was slowly starting to "migrate" it to Google+. I do have a Google+ account, but have never warmed up to it. I liked the idea of circles, but simply cannot master the constantly changing user interface. This didn't matter because I don't know very many people who use Google+ anyway, so I just forgot about it.
Then I tried to upload some new Picasa albums to PicasaWeb and they all ended up on Google+ instead. When I go to PicasaWeb I can see the Google+ albums, but the privacy settings are different and seem to collide with each other. Both sites use the term "public" but it seems to mean different things. I prefer to make most of my online albums public so I can post links to them elsewhere. But I think that when I make them "public" on Google+ they immediately inflict themselves on everybody in all my circles, whether they are interested in my family holiday pictures or not. I'm not quite sure there - I really can't figure out what the Google+ privacy settings mean. And I still don't know if a Google+ "public" album is visible to people who are not Google+ members.
And I don't know what happens when I try to link to such an album from someplace external, like... here. Thus this entry. Here's a link to pictures from last year's Thanksgiving trip to San Jose. That ones goes to Google Plus.
For comparison, here is a link to the same album through Picasaweb.
If anyone wants to let me know how these links work for them, that would be nice. If you can view the album through both links, which one do you like better?
