Where do you get the impression that &quot;a gazillion URLs&quot; broke?<p>Picasa Web Albums will continue working until the album archive view is ready.<p>Also, all of the photo from PWA are hosted in Google Photos Backend - and will continue to be hosted there. There are accessible in Google Photos and the URLs will continue to work.<p>If you haven&#x27;t seen it, the original blog post has better information than the linked article: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlephotos.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;moving-on-from-picasa.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlephotos.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;moving-on-from-pica...</a>