Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone

Re:Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone by Terretta on Friday May 17, 2024 @07:21AM (#40388670)

7.- A method to proactively decrease quality of all images to save storage, and delete all images if you don't look at them for 2 years or have too many.

https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791

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Re:Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone by niknetniko on Saturday May 18, 2024 @04:44PM (#40401959)

I don't get what this means?

- There an option to compress images before uploading (which is probably on by default). Not unreasonable.

- Content is deleted if you do not access Google Photos in any way during two years AND do not have a paid storage plan. Not unreasonable.

- If you use more storage than you pay for during two years, content will be deleted. Again, not unreasonable.

I really do no get the complaint here.

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Re:Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone by Rygian on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @08:16AM (#40427390)

I upload my pictures with quality q=X.

The next day I download a picture. Quality is q=Y, where Y < X.

One year after, I download the same picture. Quality is q=Z, where Z < Y < X.

So my pictures uploaded to Google Photos suffer from decay, whenever Google chooses to degrade quality.

None of your "not unreasonable" scenarios are involved.

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