Re: [PWA API] Re: Please delay your changes / reconsider dropping tag support

[Mark Otway]

They already gave several months' notice, I'd be *extremely* surprised if
this had any impact on their decision. The outcry about Google Reader
shuttering was several orders of magnitude louder than this, and it closed
anyway (and the service isn't shutting, it's just migrating and having API
limitations applied).

On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 16:03 Andrew Murphy  wrote:

> Please star this post if you agree with the suggestion of delaying the
> changes,
> e.g. giving us a year's notice.
>
> A draft of the changes has been released https://developers.google.com/picasa-web/docs/3.0/releasenotes;>
> https://developers.google.com/picasa-web/docs/3.0/releasenotes
>
>
> On Tuesday, 8 March 2016 16:48:19 UTC, Andrew Murphy wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Please consider
>>
>> - keeping TAG support (i.e. returning them in the search results)
>>
>> - giving us much MORE TIME to do something about the changes (May is only
>> a few months away and we don't have the full details yet).
>>
>> - isn't there a 12 month advance notice of depreciation policy?
>>
>> - not changing the API until there is a Google Photos API that is at
>> least as good.
>>
>> As usual, it would be nice is someone from Google was checking this
>> forum, and responding to developer feedback...
>>
>> Thanks to the Picasa team for all their work. It was an outstanding PC
>> Application, Web service and API. A real shame its closing.
>>
>> Thanks Again,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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[PWA API] Re: Please delay your changes / reconsider dropping tag support

[Sholto Ramsay]

Total agreement. They have announced changes will happen and yet they have 
not announced anything substantive. In our case we are looking at Flickr as 
their API supports tag based queries.

Similarly, I agree with you regarding google photos whose lack of API makes 
it totally useless for just about anything. It is nothing more than a 
backup service really. Even its editing is astonishingly poor having 
stepped back from the google+ editor.

The honest truth is that I would never build a service on Google because 
they deprecate without replacing!

On Tuesday, 8 March 2016 16:48:19 UTC, Andrew Murphy wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Please consider
>
> - keeping TAG support (i.e. returning them in the search results)
>
> - giving us much MORE TIME to do something about the changes (May is only 
> a few months away and we don't have the full details yet). 
>
> - isn't there a 12 month advance notice of depreciation policy?
>
> - not changing the API until there is a Google Photos API that is at least 
> as good.
>
> As usual, it would be nice is someone from Google was checking this forum, 
> and responding to developer feedback...
>
> Thanks to the Picasa team for all their work. It was an outstanding PC 
> Application, Web service and API. A real shame its closing.
>  
> Thanks Again,
>
> Andrew
>

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