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What if Flickr fails?

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Re: What if Flickr fails?

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Post by ceejayoz »

jedschmidt wrote: post #6
noahc wrote: post #3

Is there a business opportunity here? Backup all your crap around the web and then allow you to reupload it to another service with one click? EDIT: My point was more to pull in all data flickr, linkedin, facebook, twitter, myspace, hacker news, reddit, digg etc. Not just a single source, but all your web data and then upload it a new site if it is applicable. Obviously, it wouldn't make sense to upload your hacker n…

This is already possible with Flickr photos, thanks to flickrtouchr and Dropbox: git clone https://github.com/tominsam/flickrtouchr.git cd flickrtouchr python flickrtouchr.py ~/Dropbox/myphotos

I've been looking for something like this, major thanks!

Re: What if Flickr fails?

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Post by bootload »

jedschmidt wrote: post #6
noahc wrote: post #3

Is there a business opportunity here? Backup all your crap around the web and then allow you to reupload it to another service with one click? EDIT: My point was more to pull in all data flickr, linkedin, facebook, twitter, myspace, hacker news, reddit, digg etc. Not just a single source, but all your web data and then upload it a new site if it is applicable. Obviously, it wouldn't make sense to upload your hacker n…

This is already possible with Flickr photos, thanks to flickrtouchr and Dropbox: git clone https://github.com/tominsam/flickrtouchr.git cd flickrtouchr python flickrtouchr.py ~/Dropbox/myphotos

  # TODO set up sidecar
  # write_sidecar(photoid, photo.getAttribute("secret"), dir)
I'll have a look through this - looks like it also allows for metadata capture and I can see some code not implemented ~ https://github.com/tominsam/flickrtouchr/blob/master/flickrt... more here ~ http://hivelogic.com/articles/backing-up-flickr

Re: What if Flickr fails?

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Post by jarek »

I paid for my Flickr account and hope to continue paying for it, but at the same time I would feel better if they had explicit export/backup functionality.

I hope if Yahoo! can't keep on supporting Flickr they will at least be able to sell it off to someone who will. It does have some revenue.

Re: What if Flickr fails?

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Post by [deleted] »

pyre wrote: post #8
ammmir wrote: post #2

this reminds me of the geocities shutdown. you can't trust companies enough to keep data available and around forever. if you get too popular, controversial, or inactive, you should accept the fact that your data could be removed at any time.

Even when you're paying them for the service? "Sorry. We know that you were paying us monthly/yearly for the service, but you've been inactive for too long. We're going to deactivate your account" That doesn't seem right to me.

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Re: What if Flickr fails?

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Post by bootload »

smanek wrote: post #9
noahc wrote: post #3

Is there a business opportunity here? Backup all your crap around the web and then allow you to reupload it to another service with one click? EDIT: My point was more to pull in all data flickr, linkedin, facebook, twitter, myspace, hacker news, reddit, digg etc. Not just a single source, but all your web data and then upload it a new site if it is applicable. Obviously, it wouldn't make sense to upload your hacker n…

http://www.backupify.com/

"... Backupify for Flickr archives your Flickr content. More details coming soon. ..." ~ https://app.backupify.com/service_types/flickr/backup_detail...

I'll give it a go. Seems there is a 2Gb limit before you pay but there is nothing to say what exactly is backed up.

Re: What if Flickr fails?

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Post by ja27 »

I've paid for a Flickr pro account for a few years now. Ironically, I first got on Flickr when Yahoo Photos shut down and they forcefully migrated me to Flickr. But I'm letting my pro account expire this month. I've been using Flickr for 2 main purposes: sharing photos with friends and backing up all my photos. It hasn't been great for either.

No matter how many guest passes and invites I mail friends, most of them only look at the photos I put on Facebook. Facebook keeps improving their photo service - removing album limits, increasing resolution. I can't name a single new Flickr feature in the past 3 years that's impacted me.

For backing up, it's really not very convenient, especially if I had to restore. I've moved to rotating offsite hard drives a while ago.

I do still enjoy some of the social aspects of Flickr groups, for general photography and related interests. That's enough to possibly keep me active there as a free user, but in general the quality of the average Flickr group is pretty low. It really depends on the group admins and Flickr doesn't offer any incentive for them. Wouldn't it be easy to offer free Pro accounts to the admins of the top 1% of Flickr groups? Or some swag? Or anything?

Then there's the fact that every time I login there I cringe when I realize I'm using my ancient Yahoo id that's been discarded for every other purpose.

Re: What if Flickr fails?

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Post by sdizdar »

noahc wrote: post #3

Is there a business opportunity here? Backup all your crap around the web and then allow you to reupload it to another service with one click? EDIT: My point was more to pull in all data flickr, linkedin, facebook, twitter, myspace, hacker news, reddit, digg etc. Not just a single source, but all your web data and then upload it a new site if it is applicable. Obviously, it wouldn't make sense to upload your hacker n…

You can copy photosets from Flickr to Facebook or Picasa using http://showzey.com. It manual process now (photset by photoset). I wonder if enough people are interested in paid option for continuously sync between these services?

Re: What if Flickr fails?

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Post by rorrr »

People should stop posting every single shitty photo they take. What is the point of that? Follow the links to the author's flick account. It's full of complete garbage. Not just garbage, but also repetitive garbage. There are sets of nearly identical tasteless snapshots. Who gives a fuck if you lose them? Its intrinsic value being displayed on a public photo site is zero. Just dump them on a hard drive, no need to display your garbage publicly.

Re: What if Flickr fails?

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Post by pavel_lishin »

pyre wrote: post #8
ammmir wrote: post #2

this reminds me of the geocities shutdown. you can't trust companies enough to keep data available and around forever. if you get too popular, controversial, or inactive, you should accept the fact that your data could be removed at any time.

Even when you're paying them for the service? "Sorry. We know that you were paying us monthly/yearly for the service, but you've been inactive for too long. We're going to deactivate your account" That doesn't seem right to me.

> That doesn't seem right to me.

Alas, that doesn't matter - what matters is the contract you agreed to when paying them.

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