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Flickr will end 1TB of free storage and limit free users to 1,000 photos
- Thread starter MikeHattsu
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Nothing last forever man. Imagine all the BBS forum post with images, all to be gone soon.
First Photobucket, that one caught me good, then Flickr, i presume Imgur not far in the future.
Seems like the usual business flow of free image hosting sites, boom and bust is just a part of life.
First Photobucket, that one caught me good, then Flickr, i presume Imgur not far in the future.
Seems like the usual business flow of free image hosting sites, boom and bust is just a part of life.
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It'll still be compressed, but it'll be good enough for normal use. Not for exact backup though.
Inching closer and closer to getting a Dropbox Plus subscription. Don't really want another 10 € the month but my 22 GB free (Basic) account is already getting full since i use Dropbox for a lot of thinks, private and work related.
Probably with my next planned raise.
Dropbox Plus with 1 TB + Home NAS with 6 TB (Raid 1) should be enough to keep all my stuff safe for the next 10 years.
Still like Flickr for how it looks and how it arranges the pics when you share a link to an album with people.
Probably with my next planned raise.
Dropbox Plus with 1 TB + Home NAS with 6 TB (Raid 1) should be enough to keep all my stuff safe for the next 10 years.
Still like Flickr for how it looks and how it arranges the pics when you share a link to an album with people.
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If it still is, it won't be anymore.
My Flickr app was shit on windows phone (didn't let me log in), on Android it didnt work on my OP3T and on my Pixel it also doesnt work (only sync while I am inside the app...), so well, I don't even use this shit anymore.
I have enjoyed using Flickr over the years, it's a big shame they are doing this.
I'm going to have to find a new place to put 2500+ photos.
I'm going to have to find a new place to put 2500+ photos.
I get why people are upset but Flickr is just going back to its roots here. I remember a very interesting article from a while about how Flickr was successful as a social network years before Facebook, Instagram, etc, but got bought by Yahoo who screwed them up beyond all recognition.
Now that they've escaped Yahoo they're just going back to what they were. I wish them luck, especially considering that this will make them the only social network I know of funded by its users rather than data mining.
Now that they've escaped Yahoo they're just going back to what they were. I wish them luck, especially considering that this will make them the only social network I know of funded by its users rather than data mining.
Idk how many people used flickr tbh, I always used abload.de. Flickr is way too much hassle to get an actual link to embed.
I've only really been actively using Flickr since January, though I signed up back in 2013. But I treat it as a photography community. I saw the 1 TB and was a bit stunned. Like, that's huge, and who has 1 TB of their best shots?
I welcome a move toward promoting it as a photography community again, rather than a simple backup photo dump. Although, I think this move may be a bit extreme. They should have been more precise about the whole thing. There's lots of trash on Flickr. People upload thousands upon thousands of stolen and reposted pornographic photos and videos, for example. Flickr could try to trim those out specifically instead of knocking down the more honest and genuine users.
I welcome a move toward promoting it as a photography community again, rather than a simple backup photo dump. Although, I think this move may be a bit extreme. They should have been more precise about the whole thing. There's lots of trash on Flickr. People upload thousands upon thousands of stolen and reposted pornographic photos and videos, for example. Flickr could try to trim those out specifically instead of knocking down the more honest and genuine users.
I used https://flickrdownloadr.com/ a few years ago. Not sure if it still works today but at the time it made the whole process of moving 3k photos easy.
You can already upload raw files, even with the free version. However the UI support is not great, as it will treat raw + jpeg as two separate images.
Photobucket was charging $100 for like 50gb or $400 for 3rd party hosting but now its $120 for 1tb a year. Flickr is charging $50 for unlimited. Soooo that's a much much better price imho.
They might lower it, or raise the 1000 photo limit, but there's no way they can go back to 1TB. They don't have Yahoo backing them up anymore.
Well Flickr is not for you then. They want to go back to their roots of photographers and photo enthusiats, not just people wanting 1TB of free storage all their selfies. They're a business, they have to make money.
And you can't expect everything for free, man.
Also you get some perks from their annual plan, so 15% off an Adobe package might just be worth the $50
How do you know what i am using my Flickr for? Did i say anything about my Flickr account and "selfies"?
And what makes you think that i "expect everything for free"?
I will just stop using Flickr. And problem solved. But please stop assuming what i am using Flickr for and what am i expecting for free in my life. Ok?
The exact problem was that Yahoo tried to make it more like a social network and fucked it right up, it worked because of the smaller communities that were photography based. Yahoo changed how views were counted so rather than a view being a click and actual view it was counted as a view if it just showed a thumbnail in a search result. They changed how you added pictured to groups by making it so you just selected the group from a drop down menu and added it, meaning you never need to even view the group, so you would not see the regular posters pictures, or conversations. There's probably way more things they did that I've not noticed.
I never used it back then, so this is interesting. I hope they fix these features.
I like photography, but I don't like the way instagram works, so I hope this becomes a better alternative.
I don't upload a lot of screen and I have 1800 photos... this is fu**ed up :(
Any good alternative for lossless screenshot?
Any good alternative for lossless screenshot?
I used flickr for screenshots. I have around 15K screenshots there, and i would be probably fine with buying Pro subscription but 50$ per year for only image/video hosting is too much for me. And thing is there are no options out there for people like me. Google Photos is ok but it lacks embedding options and interface is awful for finding something specific because they don't even offer list view or any kind of option to change view. Their upload also sucks because it refuses to upload some images when you try to upload large batch and there is no way to check which ones are missing. OneDrive is similar.
Occasionally I have one image that refuses to upload for whatever reason, but it will always work with the email upload.
I still use the old Flickr uploader app. Always works, and fairly fast. Uploads 3-10 MB/s on my GB up connection. The bottleneck is the processing which is probably creating multiple sizes and distributing to a few datacenters.
