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[Lisa Seeto <1896347@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are currently displaying the icons as links for the following external sites during Image Gallery external gallery configurations:
"Flickr"  https://www.flickr.com/  <--- working
"Picasa Web albums"  http://picasaweb.google.com/  <--- redirects to google account log-in or if already logged in to google photo albums
"Photobucket"  http://www.photobucket.com/ <--- working
"Windows Live"  http://www.live.com/ <--- redirects to Outlook email (https://outlook.live.com/owa/)

Flickr
There have been many changes to Flickr including that they use 'albums' now instead of 'sets'. If we continue to support links to Flickr we need to add to our existing Regex to match the new URL patterns.
There is a short URL format, embed code and a BBCode that are produced when a person shares an album.
An example of the short url: https://flic.kr/p/nqwgco
A URL to a Flickr album still using set in the URL text did not work when adding to the Image Gallery block- this URL however did redirect when put directly into the browser.
* Need to add to our current code to allow for changes to URL if we want to continue to support

Picasa Web Albums
Picasa Web Albums has been succeeded by Google Photos. Since the closure of Picasaweb:
Links that will continue to work:
   Links to photos and albums whose URLs use your user ID number (and not your username).
   Links to Public Galleries whose URLs use your user ID number (and not your username).

Links that will stop working:
   Slideshows embedded on websites.
   Picasa Web Albums & photos embedded on websites.
   Links to photos, albums, and Public Galleries whose URLs use your username (and not your user ID number).
(See https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/6383491?hl=en&ref_topic=6247476)

If we wanted to start supporting Google Photos here is some information about sharing their albums.
https://support.google.com/photos/answer/9789702
https://blog.google/products/photos/new-controls-how-you-share-albums-google-photos/

Photobucket
I tried to test a photobucket URL for a public album but a warning was produced about malformed <url>.
I think any urls that worked in the past are now probably broken?

Windows Live Photo Gallery albums
This was retired in 2017.  More information found here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads-for-windows-32490f9b-01ee-c13e-b2af-b5057c2d34e8

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1896347

Title:
  Photobucket developer website not available any more

Status in Mahara:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  http://developer.photobucket.com is not available any more and it
  looks like that it's not possible to use API keys with Photobucket
  these days as the help centre doesn't have anything. An online search
  didn't produce anything of note on the Photobucket site.

  It might be time to decommission this image gallery option.

  We should also check the other external image gallery options and see
  if they still work at the same time.

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