<story><title>Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums</title><url>https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/03/07/less-than-a-month-to-go-before-google-breaks-hundreds-of-thousands-of-links-all-over-the-internet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CamelCaseName</author><text>In Google&amp;#x27;s defense:&lt;p&gt;1. This was announced over 3 years ago [0]&lt;p&gt;2. Photos&amp;#x2F;Videos uploaded to Picasa were transferred to Google Photos automatically (comments&amp;#x2F;tags&amp;#x2F;captions will be lost though) [1]&lt;p&gt;3. Picasa was originally built in 2002! (bought by Google in 2004) -- Perhaps Picasa had a time and place?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Picasa#Discontinuation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Picasa#Discontinuation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;picasa.google.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;picasa.google.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums</title><url>https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/03/07/less-than-a-month-to-go-before-google-breaks-hundreds-of-thousands-of-links-all-over-the-internet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pgrote</author><text>Really miss picasa. I know the world is moving away from tagging your photos with descriptive words, but I still do it.&lt;p&gt;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.</text></comment>