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

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Marissa is nearing her 1 year anniversary as Yahoo CEO and it seems that she is turning the company around.

The stock price is up, I'll give you that, but in terms of actual user/profit/revenue growth what are the numbers to suggest that she is turning the company around?

Flashy product acquisitions and page redesigns a turnaround o not make. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just interested in seeing the hard numbers.

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

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Did they Photoshop the image of the Android app[0]? I don't think a Galaxy S3/S4 would have those three on-screen buttons at the bottom. It looks like they took a screenshot from a Nexus device and then put it on top of the screen in a stock Galaxy S3/S4 image.

0: http://media.tumblr.com/d5fe504880017bde458c113a94094cbc/tum...

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

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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…

As per the new plans, there is no 300MB/month upload-limits on free-accounts.( please don't see Google search results, was that cached? ) Here are their newer plans -- Free-Accounts: + 1 Terabyte of photo and video storage + Upload photos of up to 200MB per photo + Upload 1080p HD videos of up to 1GB each + Video playback of up to 3 minutes each + Upload and download in full original quality Ad-Free accounts: (older…

The google link was just for the calculator feature, noone here's been looking at cached pages.

When I looked at the limits page it was updated to list all the new plans, but it also mentioned a 300MB/month upload limit for free accounts (in two spots, I seem to recall, but at least one, and then it was gone.)

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

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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…

Where is the upload rate limit mentioned?

It is not. Some id^H^H guy saw the old limit posted before the page was updated, and tons followed to comment without pausing to think that such a limit does not make sense with the new announcement.

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

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Marissa is nearing her 1 year anniversary as Yahoo CEO and it seems that she is turning the company around.

Props to her, but to be fair, it's not hard to say "Hey look, a wall!" and go the other direction.

I can name a few former Yahoo CEOs who would beg to differ.

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

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post #113
post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As per the new plans, there is no 300MB/month upload-limits on free-accounts.( please don't see Google search results, was that cached? ) Here are their newer plans -- Free-Accounts: + 1 Terabyte of photo and video storage + Upload photos of up to 200MB per photo + Upload 1080p HD videos of up to 1GB each + Video playback of up to 3 minutes each + Upload and download in full original quality Ad-Free accounts: (older…

The google link was just for the calculator feature, noone here's been looking at cached pages. When I looked at the limits page it was updated to list all the new plans, but it also mentioned a 300MB/month upload limit for free accounts (in two spots, I seem to recall, but at least one, and then it was gone.)

So they must be editing those pages in real-time then! All those pages and occurrences across their site. ;)

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

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So 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.

Why wasn't I consulted?! http://www.ftrain.com/SiteLaunch.html

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

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This 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 frie…

They could work like Google+ which automatically backs up your photos.

So everything you share could be safer at flickr vs spread out among 100 services

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

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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.…

It's exactly the same as when GMail gave away a gigabyte of space for free. Some people said it was financially ruinous, but of course few people used anywhere close to that much, and storage prices continued to drop.

Terabytes are the new gigabytes.

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