[Proton Drive – Photos Web] Do not redirect user to album after adding photo(s)
Current Behavior:
When adding one or more photos to an album via the Proton Drive Photos web interface, the user is automatically redirected to the destination album.
Expected Behavior:
The user should remain in the Photos view after adding photo(s) to an album, consistent with the behavior already implemented in the mobile apps (at least iOS, I didn't check the Android on).
Problem Statement:
This redirect creates significant friction when organizing photos spread across a long time period. For each add action, the user is forced to:
- Get redirected to the album
- Click "Back"
- Navigate back to the "Photos" view
- Scroll back to their previous position — which can be particularly tedious with large libraries, even with the month selector sidebar.
This turns a bulk organization task into a highly repetitive and time-consuming process.
Proposed Solution:
Remove the automatic redirect on the web interface, keeping the user in the Photos view at their current scroll position after adding photo(s) to an album. Optionally, display a brief confirmation toast notification (e.g. "Added to [Album Name]") as feedback.
Low effort, high UX impact, and the expected behavior already exists on mobile.
Emmanuel Mickiewicz
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dave@shax.com
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Completely agree, this is very annoying, and makes it impossible to add photos to multiple albums at once.
Additionally if I am sorting photos into albums, and select a few hundred of them, then when I "Add to album" I lose my place and have to click back, then scroll down to the same place in the list to continue adding more photos to the album.
Removing the redirect is the obvious solution. The toast that pops up can have a link to the album so people who wish to go to it can do so.
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reallyzen
commented
When creating a gallery from the Main view, one can be quite "deep" down the page ; if I select a bunch of pictures from Main to add them to a gallery, I would rather stay in place to be able to keep scrolling / keep sorting without seeing what I just selected mere seconds ago but most importantly, without loosing my position in a timeline that can be very, very deep (and possibly slow at showing contents)
Thanks in advance
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alspals
commented
This UX is really horrid, it makes building albums up after importing a load of photos a massive pain.