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This isn't true. Those limits are all removed http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/
I think they have some more work to do, I just hit a limit... http://i.imgur.com/SQRvzWw.png
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
#82The default privacy permissions are a bit loose for my taste, but I'm not big into sharing photos except with my direct family. 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_ w…
I was concerned for a moment just now because it looked like one particular setting wasn't sticking: "Hide me from site-wide searches on flickr.com and on 3rd party sites that use the API?"
I checked the box and hit "save", but when I went back and looked, it wasn't checked. I tried again and it worked.
I wonder if they're using one or more caching layers and not being careful about fetching important bits from the authoritative layer.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#83How 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.…
At the scale that Yahoo runs, 1TB is considerably cheaper than $67/TB.
Remember that places like Yahoo and Google operate at levels where a file service issues a monitoring warning if there's less than a petabyte left.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
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#851TB 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 don't see that limit anymore. Have they updated the page? Especially with 200MB limit per photo this seems really odd.
I'm curious to see how many people will hit that limit... the largest images I have, at about 6000 x 4000, with 48-bit floating-point pixels, using non-lossy compression, are only 80MB...
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#86This is pretty interesting to me as I've been spending the last month preparing my soon-to-be startup; (hopefully) a competitor to Flickr/500px: https://photographer.io
Obviously I can't compete with that free space which they're giving out. Instead I'm going to stick to a lesser free plan and a sensible subscription price, and hope that people realise that I actually aim to make a profitable business out of it and stick around for a good long while.
If anyone's interested I'd be grateful for any/all feedback, or any questions about what Photographer.io can offer over Flickr. Obviously it's still in beta, but I figure I should probably let people know that it exists.
EDIT: If you tried to sign up, I apologise if it was broken. I pushed a fix for something else a few hours ago and managed to break the sign up form (clearly it needs better testing). The patch is going up now, and you should be able to sign up again shortly.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#87Did anyone notice that the first link on ... "Since 2005, Flickr has become synonymous with inspiring imagery." ... was actually linking to flick.com, but not flickr.com?
Edit: In fact the second link also links to flick.com.
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Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#89I remember a lot of people noting that facebook's UI evolution toward a focus on images rather than text is theoretically nice. That is, it's presented very well whenever the images are nice, but on facebook that's rarely the case--a quick look through my homefeed, it's either blurry party shots/selfies or obnoxiously filtered Instagram pictures. Flickr seems to have made the same evolution, and in that respect its UI changes are hardly original ideas. Yet it's almost a perfect fit -- where else on the Internet will you find more professionally-taken pictures?
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#90The default privacy permissions are a bit loose for my taste, but I'm not big into sharing photos except with my direct family. 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_ w…
Also, lots of the settings are inconsistent: the more-conservative setting is variously "yes" or "no". I think it's widely-known that structuring your questionnaire this way leads to confusion.
One of the settings (geo preferences / "who can see where your photos were taken?") had a weird state to begin with, "no preference set". This is the only one that I saw that had no default. What would have the geo privacy been for photos that I uploaded without setting this?