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Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space

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Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space

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Can someone please explain to me how on each they're able to do this? They're valuing each of their users at the cost of 1TB (plus bandwidth, electricity, etc.) Like in the hosting industry, "unlimited space" means "fuck you, don't host shit here other than files that serve your content."

Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space

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post #11

Can someone please explain to me how on each they're able to do this? They're valuing each of their users at the cost of 1TB (plus bandwidth, electricity, etc.) Like in the hosting industry, "unlimited space" means "fuck you, don't host shit here other than files that serve your content."

Statistics, most likely. If the average Flickr user only uses 10GB, for example, then it doesn't matter what the upper bound is aside for the 1% of power users.

Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space

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Amusingly, in the Yahoo/Tumblr acquisition thread, I complained about how little Yahoo has improved on Flickr...but otherwise, I was a happy paying customer.

Currently, I pay $25 for a year's worth of unlimited photo storage and being ad-free. With this new plan, I have to pay twice as much for what I have now...because even as a 3+ year (almost 4 now) member, I haven't uploaded enough to fill a terabyte. Kind of a bummer, though allowing more than 200 photos (which was the Free offering until now) is absolutely critical for Flickr to be a success.

edit: one of the things I complained about was how the horizontal-masonry that was implemented months (if not a year) ago had been limited to just parts of the site...and how the default logged in userpage was dull and photoless...with the new redesign, both of these complaints are wiped out. Nicely done Yahoo, I will complain more on HN in the future.

edit2: Unless I'm missing something obvious, I don't see a "let me see the old version for now" button...Which I think underscores my opinion of how outdated the old site design was.

Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space

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I thought Flickr never charged for disk space... the whole premise was you could store an unlimited number of photos, they'd just make you upgrade to a "pro" account if you wanted to upload new photos beyond a limit or get photos out. How is "1TB free space" a benefit now?

Without pro, you could only access your last 200 photos. So unless your photos were of the 100MB+ quality, you would not be able to access most of your previous photos in Flickr.
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