[CaptSpify]

I think that's the complaint though: Why take a perfectly fine working desktop application, move it to the web, then remove the desktop side?

Presumably, if I wanted the web version, I would have started with the web version.

[degio]

by the way, I can find a million alternative cloud based photo services, all with comparable features. On the other hand, there are very few desktop picture managers, especially on windows and linux.

[usrusr]

Because a free great desktop app, paid for by a freemium (or free-for-ecosystem-lock-in) online service was quite a thing, but never a permanent/sustainable one. I suspect that I will use an utterly outdated version of picasa for quite a while, because it already wildly exceeds my demands for an offline snaps-management application in its current version. Hope they did not sneak in a kill-switch in a previous update.