Points for where she announced it. Guess that other announcement wasn't a one time gimmick.
Yahoo! actually moved its official blog to Tumblr.
http://yodel.yahoo.com/blogs/general/we-re-moving--120325712...
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
#22Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#23I'm down right angry. I loved the old flickr interface. It was simple and usable. Now it looks like a less functional google+. Flickr's job is NOT to be a fancy photo viewer, it's supposed to be a photo organizer.
Looks like yahoo just screwed up the last good thing they had. This will be my last year with this service (I've been a member since 2004 and have had a pro account for several years now).
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#24This is great news for people like me that continue to use Flickr after a very long time... Unfortunately the new UI reminds me a lot 500px which I think offers, at the moment, a much better community and user experience if one is really a photography enthusiast.
Anyhow hats off to Yahoo for trying to make things right after several years of stagnation. I'm aware the Flickr team have lost some valuable members and that probably affected future plans but that's a different story.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#25How can they give away 1TB of space for free? Because the cheapest 1TB drive I saw was $67.
Unless.. they assume that only a very small percentage of people will use it. So if on average, everyone still only uses about 1GB of space, then a 500gb you can get for $45. $45/500 = .09 so about 10 cents per person. With 25 million users that is about a $2.5 million investment.
If the average user uses 10GB then that is $1.00 per person though. With 25 million users that is about a $25 million investment.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#261TB isn't that impressive when you have to deal with a 300MB/month upload rate limit: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/
It'd take 291 years to fill up the 1TB allowance: https://www.google.com/search?q=1TB+%2F+(300+MB%2Fmonth)
(Also looks like there's a missing on that limits page, there.)
Edit: Looks like the page is being edited right this moment - the page used to list the 300MB/month limit but was also mentioning the new account types, at the same time. Guess they forgot to review all the text
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#27So far, the response from Flickr power users looks overwhelmingly negative: http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633547442506/
Most of that looks like the usual user complaining because an interface changed.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#28So far, the response from Flickr power users looks overwhelmingly negative: http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633547442506/
I'm not sure I would consider them power users but it's somehow expected because everyone knows how people can be adverse to change... (It's still fresh in my mind when everyone complained about the new Gmail UI or even G+...).
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#29I think Yahoo is going to need a big rebranding. The new Flickr actually looks pretty fresh.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#30So far, the response from Flickr power users looks overwhelmingly negative: http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633547442506/
You can add myself to the list of angry users. I'm not only angry because it's just a terrible interface change, but it's an entire service change. Like if twitter decided it was pinterest, only you've been paying for your tweets.