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Posted: 05 Nov 2016

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A tribute to Panoramio

A tribute to Panoramio
Today, Google's Panoramio has come to an end. I was a member since 2008 with over 1500 photos and 3.5+ million views but more than that, many thousands of friendly comments and shared moments, just like we see here in Ipernity. I feel bereft of a friend but fortunately via Ipernity and other photo sharing sites our friendly photo-loving community lives on. To all that followed me in Panoramio, a hearty THANK YOU.

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 Herb Riddle
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Hi Andy, you know, I never resented nor disliked Google. I also had them to thank for Panoramio and I must admit to being almost addicted to Google Earth not to mention their search engine and now YouTube as well. However you are right, they let us down badly in the end. I thought they would do much better. At least I have not lost any money! :) Herb
9.8 years ago.
 Herb Riddle
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Hi Frank, my comment to Andy applies for you too. Best wishes, herb
9.8 years ago.
 Herb Riddle
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You know Cornelia, I know exactly what you feel like. I had joined G+ some years back and I have backups of every one of my photos and so my 1700 Pano photos mught as well go to G+ cloud rather a mass deletion. The Pano account will be closed by them next year, so why take the trouble? Good to see you here at least. Herb
9.8 years ago.
 L. L. Wall
L. L. Wall club
... "Favorite Photos", "Favorite Photographers", threads of communication, Panoramigos, ability to readily access a universe of diverse photographs: all ripped away and apparently never accessible ... it is easy to look forward to new beginnings, but hard not to be bitter about that which was lost (some of what was a surprise) ...
9.8 years ago.
 Herb Riddle
Herb Riddle club
In July 2026, I inadvertently put this photo on again. I had several comments:

Erhard Bernstein - This is my reference to Panoramio :https://www.ipernity.com/doc/erhard.bernstein/43598738 Goggle did a very bad job.
My reply: Thanks for your link Erhard which was both interesting and informative as well as showing me a jolly good photo. My experiences of Panoramio was perhaps clouded by good friends on there but I must admit that the end was a real disappointment showing Google in its true colours perhaps.

Roger (Grisly) A fine and fitting image Herb. My last image on Panoramio was perhaps clouded by good friends on there but I must admit that the end was a real disappointment showing Google in its true colours perhaps.
My reply: Thanks for this Roger. After my transfer, wholeheartedly to Ipernity, I was pleased to find many of my Panoramio friends here as well. However over the years that number has dwindled but new friends have been made here too. I did find many Pano friends were also on Flickr so I kept in contact with them on there for a while but being in Flickr was like dying a hundred deaths resulting in a gradual loss of most of my old contacts. You Pic, was the same. 500px showed promise as a site but commercialism killed that for me too. Now it's really only Ipernity but I also see the slow demise of this as membership dwindles and interest starts to fade, especially in the competitions. With the growth of good phone photos and the ease of posting to places like facebook and WhatsApp with mainly more personal shots, I wonder if the old photo hobby is dying out. Time will tell.

Jaap van't Veen: Wonderful image Herb.
6 weeks ago.

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