Comment by Brajeshwar | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Brajeshwar | Hacker News Reader

I have been looking to get rid of Google Photos from my toolset for a different reason. I don't mind paying for valuable services. I have been on the 2TB Family plan of Google One for a while, as I thought I would use it as the backup for my Photos.

The second reason was that I could have a single photo collective for the family. Apple Photos do not make it easy to have an all-shared family photo pool.

Unfortunately, it is tough to manage the storage between drive and photos. There is no easy way to keep the ones you like and the ones you want to delete to save space. There is no easy way to escape Google Subscription hell once you get in.

And they have hidden the one thing I love about Google Photos -- ForYou. If you have kids, you will love this one. https://photos.google.com/foryou

I'm just an amateur and family photographer, but doing that for the past 20+ years has gotten me quite many photos. I'm on the highest additional storage possible along with the Apple One subscription, and I'm struggling to find a better storage solution for my photos. I have few ideas, but I'm on the lookout for choices.

For anyone else who doesn't know what Google Photos ForYou is:

> For a while now, the Google Photos app has included an “Assistant” tab. This is the place where all of Google’s automatically created creations are shown. Things like photo collages, animations, movies, albums, and more. The name of the tab has always felt like an implication that Google Assistant is creating these things, but it can be confusing if you’re not familiar with it. Google is changing the name of this tab to “For You.”

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-photos-renames-assista...

> Apple Photos do not make it easy to have an all-shared family photo pool.

FWIW, this is trivial these days. We have a “Family Album” that everyone can see, search, add to, etc.

Indeed, Photo Sharing has been there for quite a while and we use it to share with lot other family friends and relatives.

What our family needed is the ability to have a "common library" kinda where we don't have to specifically "Add to" to the common Album.

I know it is trivial but we tend to forget and that habit piles on. So, this idea just turns to "why don't they just eat cake instead?"

Shared albums contain (noticably) downsampled versions of the originals, see: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202786

I thought I could use shared albums to pool everyone's photos and use that pool to make backups, but that's not possible. Which isn't at all clear to people, in my experience.

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