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What? No refund for those with a Pro account? Why do tech companies not want to take my money these days? The concept of 'free' on the Internet is changing. Users will now happily pay because they don't want another service dying because of no sustainable income. Even if Yahoo can sustain themselves with their exabyte-era data-centers. I don't care. I just want a pro / premium option, and I want one soon.
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…
Ugh.
Can anybody compare them with facebook's or picasa / google+'s default privacy settings ?
Edit: I've made a bunch of comments as replies to this one. My conclusion is that New Flickr's privacy-friendliness is just barely above Facebook's.
However, they haven't yet demonstrated _continuing_ willingness (as Facebook has) to default to lower-privacy options as they iterate.
If they notice that I've locked down most of my privacy / sharing settings and then take an educated guess at what I want the default to be when they launch a new feature with a privacy slider ("we've set this to 'only family' for you based off your choices for settings X, Y, and Z."), that would be sweet.
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.…
I'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).
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…
Check again, the mention of 300MB/month is gone. Looks like old copy cache.
"Eligible Pro members have the option to switch to a Free account until 8/20/2013" I paid for Pro until 07/2014 I hope they don't switch me to Free a year early !
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.
Also, it looks like Pro accounts will still be available to existing Pro subscribers... for the time being, at least.
From the FAQ:
> I’ve heard that Flickr Pro is no longer being offered. How does that affect me?
> Starting on 5/20/2013, we will no longer be offering new Flickr Pro subscriptions. After that point, the following things will happen:
> Recurring Pro users currently have the ability to renew.
> Eligible Pro members have the option to switch to a Free account until 8/20/2013.
> The “Gift of Pro” will no longer be available for purchase.
> Pro users will no longer appear with a “Pro” badge beside their name or buddy icon.
So what happens after 8/20/2013?
Anyway, then there's this:
> What happens if my Pro Account expires?
> If your Pro account expires, don't panic! None of your photos or videos have been deleted!
> This means instead of enjoying the super-duper capacity of your Pro account, you're now subject to the limits of a free account. If you upgrade again, all of your photos will be waiting for you.
> Any of your sets that disappeared will magically reappear when you renew or upgrade.
OK, so it sounds like they'll give existing Pro subscribers the opportunity to renew.
I look forward to seeing if this change proves to be more than skin deep.