While Google+ may not have been the world’s most active social network, it was home to niche groups of 360 photographers and aficionados that loved to share their works including the Photo Sphere community (16,224 members), the Panoramic Photographers on Google community (4,093 members) and even the Google Trusted Photographers community (371 members).

The news is devastating for users who have years of photographs — be they photo spheres or otherwise — uploaded on the service.

Fortunately, user +Brian Slesinsky posted this helpful tutorial for creating a backup archive of your posts.

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