eli

@itsonlythee

artist, shitposter, fan of eggbug

they/he
opalescenteel.com/

queer nonbinary artist with way too many ongoing projects. jewish, antizionist, leftist.

🛒 my online art shop

shop.opalescenteel.com/

💻 my sims 4 blog

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💸 tips for doodles

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eli @itsonlythee6/19/2023, 2:53 AM

Techokami @techokami

Lupi @lupi6/17/2023, 6:48 PM

what's google killing this time?

i have literally never heard of this service of theirs, but this doesn't bode well.

I did my Takeout and it was just a bunch of pictures I stored in hangouts.

But i don't trust it to be just that. Google's good at killing things.

email transcription

Hi Lupi,

You’re receiving this email because you’ve viewed Album Archive recently or you may have some content that is visible in Album Archive. Starting on July 19, 2023, Album Archive will no longer be available. We recommend that you use Google Takeout to download a copy of your Album Archive data before then.
Today, Album Archive lets you view and manage album content from some Google products within Album Archive.
However, some content that’s only available in Album Archive will be deleted starting July 19 including

Rare cases like small thumbnail photos and album comments or likes
Some Google Hangouts data from Album Archive
Background images uploaded in the Gmail theme picker prior to 2018
If you would like to access this data, please make a copy of this data using Google Takeout. After Album Archive is no longer available, you can still use those Google products to view and manage some content directly – learn more.

𝚕𝚒𝚕𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚔 @lilrawk6/17/2023, 7:23 PM

Blogger. They're killing Blogger.

The last free, easy to use website builder that actually works is being pulled apart because Google decided they don't like hosting images for free anymore. This deletion of "rare cases of thumbnails" includes my entire online portfolio, website base images, and every single image anyone ever uploaded through Blogger. This isn't small stuff, this is entire websites we're talkin about here.

The old internet is being systematically deleted. Every old how-to website that's only still live because they were built with Blogger is going to be axed.

#google #can go fuck itself

@itsonlythee shared with:

#internets #google being google #downloaded my archive but this sucks #love it here

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in reply to @lupi's post:

@yumegaze6/17/2023, 6:51 PM

i'm pretty sure this is related to blogger media

in reply to @lilrawk's post:

Smoke and Honey @smokeandhoney6/17/2023, 7:38 PM

Do you have a source? It sounds like the kind of bullshit Google would pull but I don't see an announcement or other discussion about it on a quick search.

Lupi @lupi6/17/2023, 7:39 PM

Their source is "getting their takeout file from this and it being all the contents of their website," which I think is a pretty fair first party source.

Smoke and Honey @smokeandhoney6/17/2023, 7:40 PM

Ah, my misreading, I understand now. Thanks.

And god, that sucks. Sorry to hear it.

𝚕𝚒𝚕𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚔 @lilrawk6/17/2023, 7:41 PM

Yeah, ill have to do a screengrab when i get back home to my pc, but the list seriously includes every image i have on www.urvogelarts.com

@darryl @darryl6/17/2023, 10:43 PM

I think Takeout always gives you all your data, whether it’s at risk of imminent deletion or not. It’s Google’s tool for “gimme my stuff please”.

That’s not to say you’re wrong about the scope of this though.

𝚕𝚒𝚕𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚔 @lilrawk6/17/2023, 10:49 PM

Takeout does grab everything wholesale, yeah. They're deffo still killing Blogger as a whole piece by piece, this is only the first step (that i've noticed as an active Blogger user, anyway).

Arina Artemis, Codecrafter @artie-codecrafter6/17/2023, 7:57 PM

I just cannot help but wonder why.
Is it really saving them that much money? Or is it purely "eff you go to a Web 2.0 platform or pay us cloud money weirdo"?

𝚕𝚒𝚕𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚔 @lilrawk6/17/2023, 8:44 PM

It's looking more like the latter, since the content slated for deletion subverts Google's cloud hosting, which to nobody's surprise costs users da monis.

Misty @dog6/17/2023, 8:04 PM

I'm looking at this Google support doc, and they're being incredibly confusing about it? They imply you can still access the photos straight from Blogger, but it doesn't really have much to say about the consequences here. https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/7008270?hl=en

𝚕𝚒𝚕𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚔 @lilrawk6/17/2023, 8:42 PM

The link that leads to blogger's album only works now because the content it links to hasn't been deleted yet, but yeah! It's all on the block for a chop! Consequences are for the broke dumbasses like me that hoped a monopoly like google could afford to keep their legacy content alive indefinitely with their vast sums of wealth.

Misty @dog6/18/2023, 12:17 AM

The wording is incredibly confusing, but I think what they're saying is that this was an interface to images from a bunch of other apps and also that it had its own images that weren't in other apps? So the ones that are disappearing are the ones that didn't go in there from some other app, like Blogger. Again, their messaging sucks because this is Google though, so I could be wrong.

@jseakle6/18/2023, 9:49 AM

Yeah, this sounds right. I feel quite certain this present announcement does not include "killing blogger" in any sense.

@locus6/17/2023, 9:15 PM

Given how many hundreds of images I cherish from my old Hangouts days, I definitely will be doing a Takeout. So frustrating.

Christian Simmers @Xuelder6/17/2023, 10:04 PM

Well, this is not disproving my theory that we are in the Internet's Bronze Age Collapse Era.

𝚕𝚒𝚕𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚔 @lilrawk6/17/2023, 10:39 PM

Here's all 103 images that make up my website! https://youtu.be/T8EIxWVIcF8

Saphire Lattice❄️🌙@magenta-luna6/18/2023, 5:52 AM

Private video...

𝚕𝚒𝚕𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚔 @lilrawk6/18/2023, 7:12 AM

My bad! Should be working now.

boomy shoot honse @dawnbreez6/17/2023, 10:52 PM

"The one guy we left in charge of Blogger decided he was sick of getting bad performance reviews for not leaving to work on other things, so I guess an entire chunk of the internet gets to go die now"

eli @itsonlythee6/18/2023, 2:33 AM

wtf

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