Been out of the game for about a decade, just wondering what platform everyone uses to share digital albums/event photography with friends and family?
Back in the day imgur, Picasa, 500px and flickr were viable options for the hobbiest but it seems they either no longer exist or are now very, very expensive for low volume nonprofessional sharing
The high-effort-way: self-hosting. Take an old PC (or easier: nextcloud-hardware) and install Nextcloud + Memories-App or e.g. immich. But exposing your server to the internet should only be done after learning a lot about the subject, as it could potentially be quite dangerous.
Two of our professional-photography-friends are using picdrop.com, 1 GB is free, 10 GB cost 10€/month, 500GB are 15€/month.
I would be skeptical of a page where you could upload this much data for free, as server space simply has it’s costs. If you don’t pay the service, they will make sure they get their money in a different way.
S3 buckets are 2.5c per GB per month so not completely out of feasibility