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

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Post by manacit »

0x0 wrote: post #26

1TB 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 mentionin…

I'm a little shocked honestly - they might as well offer "unlimited" storage if I can only upload 3.6GB per year in images.

This makes the entire 1 TB craze seem like a giant farce.

Edit: It appears they have removed the limit, disregard.

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

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Post by cscheid »

0x0 wrote: post #26

1TB 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 mentionin…

Huh. Flickr Pro is gone, and there's no way to lift this 300MB/mo limit? Looks like Dropbox might have found themselves a new paying customer.

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

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Post by wlesieutre »

manacit wrote: post #31
0x0 wrote: post #26

1TB 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 mentionin…

I'm a little shocked honestly - they might as well offer "unlimited" storage if I can only upload 3.6GB per year in images. This makes the entire 1 TB craze seem like a giant farce. Edit: It appears they have removed the limit, disregard.

I think it's intended to distract you from the actual limit. If they came out and said "Unlimited storage" everyone's first reaction would be "What's the catch?"

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

#34

Post by manacit »

Eduardo3rd wrote: post #2

"So we’re also giving our Flickr users one terabyte of space — for free." This is incredible. I remember being blown away with the 1 GB of storage I got with my gmail account back in 2005. I couldn't even fathom needing a terabyte back then. What a fun time to be alive.

Keep in mind as a non-pro user you can only upload 300MB a month: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/

277 years (or 7,242 fortnights) later, and you can finally use all of your space.

Edit: It appears they have removed the limit, disregard.

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

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Post by noloqy »

Getting Marissa Mayer is the best thing that happened to Yahoo. Regardless of some of the mistakes that may have been made (thinking of one acquisition in particular), she surely is putting the company back on the map. Personally I still rarely use Yahoo; I only visit Yahoo finance once in a while, but I'm liking what I see.

Naturally the 1 TB storage is a trick. I can't imagine more than a handful of hardcore users filling up that space, but the feeling of not having to worry about deleting old files significantly contributes to a great user experience.

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

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Post by manacit »

ilaksh wrote: post #25

How 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.…

Mostly because you can only upload 300MB per month in images: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/

It'd take you 277 years to actually hit that TB with a free plan. To even use a tenth, it would take 27 years.

Edit: It appears they have removed the limit, disregard.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ilaksh wrote: post #25

How 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.…

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

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Post by nknighthb »

ilaksh wrote: post #25

How 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.…

Virtually no one will use it, and handful that use any nontrivial portion of it will draw eyeballs to the site, delivering ad revenue.
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