Sunday, February 3, 2019

Info 989: Google+ shutdown

After Picasa Albums (which were then transferred to Google Photos), now Google+ will shut down for consumers (on April 2). Some functions, like commenting via Google+ (on this and my older blogspot blogs) will be disabled by tomorrow February 4th.

More and more functions and contents will be deleted, also photos on Google+.

I'm still not sure if the pics on Google Photos are affected. Or the photos on my blogspot blogs or even the older photos (older posts) here, that were imported from there. But I think they were copied to Wordpress and not just the links. (Older posts still have links to the old blogspot blog and link to pics and vids might be empty). Many clips also were deleted on YouTube.

I understand, that all photos should be kept, as my blogspot blogs don't run via Google+ but blogger itself.

I have downloaded all contents, but just in case, please check if you need photos or comments.

Mainly of interest are the PD albums from loc.gov (FSA-OWI and NCLC) and other PD and CC albums which can be found under my blogroll (MY BLOG->PD album loc.gov). Also affected or already defunct are the slideshows (I think only in De Tuin (Villa Achterwerk)) and maybe 1 clip tagged audio (My Dog Shep) and maybe the embeddings.

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