That UI is a mix of the old with new, and the website looks pretty ugly. I wont waste too much time criticism, to be honest, for a company that acquires companies for more than a billon this is a sad development and design.
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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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.
I don't see the 300MB limit listed anywhere on that page. Maybe they hadn't finished the site rollout?
It looks like they did, indeed, remove it just as I was posting, good for Yahoo!
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#931TB 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…
As a Flickr Pro user, this upsets me. 300MB is like what, 20-odd full-sized JPEGs? A month? With no way to lift that limit even if paying? Ugh.
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#94A nice looking upgrade. That said, a few months ago I decided to use Dropbox for just about everything, and upped my storage plan. The new Dropbox photo album service and android download photos as soon as I am on wifi service is great. I still keep photos on Flickr and G+ photos, but I consider those to be backups.
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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...
Stitch a few of those into a panorama.
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#98How 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, as a regular consumer, just got a 2TB hard drive for $90. That means the space was $45/GB compared to your $67/GB. When you buy enough hard drives to fill a data center I am sure you get better prices too! As other commenters have said, I doubt most people will use a fraction of this space.
You might get the drives cheaper, but you also need to pay for the servers to house them, and rent the space, and hire the people to replace the drives that fail, and so on. The fully loaded cost is far higher than the purchase price of the drive.
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#99This is great for the so-called "photo-enthusiasts." I'll probably sign up on that basis. But I'm not sure I understand the mobile play. Most of my mobile photos are horrid quality and when I take a photo with my phone 100% of the time it is with the intent to share with others, either via SMS or Facebook or Twitter. I would be happy to share on Flickr. There's only one problem. That of course is that none of my friends use Flickr.
I think they are putting the cart before the horse in thinking that upping the storage and redesigning the interface is going to increase their user base. That said, kudos for trying something. I think that Yahoo! continues to struggle with a singular product strategy and that is ultimately causing them to hemorrhage billions of dollars chasing ill-conceived product acquisition.
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#100This 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 s…
I'm 2 years into a photo service and disk space has never been the determining cost factor. Space is only used to get users to upgrade to a paying account. I don't downplay the importance of that though, it's critical to figure out how you're going to make money today and not once you have a few million users.
In Yahoo!'s case it's about getting more engagement and users.