As an event photographer where the event participants are often the same, the most frustrating thing I find with Lightroom is that when I share albums using a web public link, the recipients will have to dig through their WhatsApp's to find my link if they ever want to see an album a second time.
They only get visibility of one album at a time by following the link.
Contrast that to google photos, where you're forced (frictionlessly) to log in, meaning any album you're given a link to automatically gets added to your portfolio of albums, and every time I visit Google Photos I'm bombarded with great old albums that increase my engagement with their platform.
Desired user experience - every time I receive a public share Lightroom link, I want the option to add it to my account along with all the others I've been shared into. Specifically I want this feature on behalf of people I'm sharing with.
Actual user experience - people look at the shared album once, then lose the link, then multiple people ask me for it again over the years and miss out on great memories.
Actual user experience 2 - the desired outcome of a link recipient seeing all the albums I've shared with them can be achieved if I share directly to people's email addresses, but I almost never have those, and the experience of sharing by email in Lightroom is dreadful (slow, clunky, doesn't remember previous recipients or names requiring copy paste from somewhere else every time).
How to make this easy - force a google login or equivalent at the landing page for a public link, then you can tie all shared albums together to that account, and the user will end up with a list of albums to browse every time they log in.
Why do this - Google does it, and it's much better as an experience than Lightroom. So much so that I'm being asked to download full Lightroom albums, repost them using google photos, and share google photos links. Adobe will convert more users to Lightroom with this feature and make $$$.
Please fix this. Thank you!
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