@simonwoods I think, generally speaking, doing most sharing activities is easier with a filesystem (e.g., you don’t have to worry about authorization, because if it’s on a filesystem you can access, you can access it), and the web is definitely not a filesystem.
I think Manton could build something that can upload a photo from an existing URL, but there are (at least) two drawbacks, one technical and one philosophical:
- Authentication, because if you supply a URL for an image that is not public (as I assume is the case with Google Photos), it will fail…
- Building such a thing would make it trivial (frictionless) to begin uploading GIFs, memes, and whatever else is out on the web, and cheapening the quality of the M.b experience, and in controlling that sort of post/image, friction is by design.
That said, no argument that the method you have to use to post photos is insane :-(