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

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Post by walid »

robotmay wrote: post #86

This 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…

The reason I would want to sign up a photo sharing service is to be able to display them online and also have them backed up at the same time. I am notorious at the backing up part. Guarantee me these 2 things and I'll be your paying customer.

Edit: Right now I don't find the Ad Free account attractive, just saying. If anyone can have the same storage, what is flickr selling?

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

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Post by david_shaw »

pajju wrote: post #129
chaz wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Doublr plan is a strange offer. Wonder if there's a miscommunication on that.

I did not find it strange. You get 1TB extra i.e total 2 TB + no ads. Some interesting observations -- the cost of Free account for Yahoo is -- 450$ per free-user/year. So, lets be prepared to get ads all around. :)

It makes sense, but $499 per year is expensive for an additional 1TB, when the first TB is free.

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

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Post by 0x0 »

coldtea wrote: post #114
brown9-2 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The page was using all the new account type names, and seemed like it was otherwise all up to date. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered posting about it. Seemed like a plausible "catch" to the generous storage limit.

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

#144

Post by ghshephard »

Osmium wrote: post #128
pajju wrote: 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…

So 1 TB is free, but an extra 1 TB is $500/yr?! I'm not sure I understand that. On another note, I (surprisingly) like how the disemvoweling is becoming synonymous with the Yahoo brand (with Tumblr now as well). What seemed stale is starting to seem fresh again. Playful, almost, like a wink to Web 2.0 -- though I imagine it could be perceived as being out of touch too, if they don't play it right.

roughly, very roughly - 90%+ of the people on the 1 TB plan will likely use < 20 Gigabytes (at least over the next couple years), and probably 99% will use less than 100 gigabytes, whereas close to 100% of the people on the doublr plan will be using at least 1 Terabyte.

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

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Post by britta »

getdavidhiggins wrote: post #19

Here's my Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/getdavidhiggins/ I disagree with people claiming Flickr is just for pictures of Daffodils and Sunsets. I just dump memes and humorous pics there.

Flickr's Community Guidelines say that you're supposed to upload your own work (http://www.flickr.com/help/guidelines/):

> Don’t upload anything that isn't yours. This includes other people's photos, video, and/or stuff you've copied or collected from around the Internet. Accounts that consist primarily of such collections may be deleted at any time.

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

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Post by hamax »

w1ntermute wrote: post #112

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...

It's probably the new Galaxy S4 Nexus edition.

I mean, it's photoshoped, but that's what they were aiming for.

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

#147

Post by jordn »

pajju wrote: post #103
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…

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…

Can anyone see a way to make the 1TB serve as the main storage space of all your photos? (and not just publicly displaying them).

I'm tied into iPhoto on a very full SSD and am longing for a way out.

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

#148

Post by busterarm »

Osmium wrote: post #128
pajju wrote: 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…

So 1 TB is free, but an extra 1 TB is $500/yr?! I'm not sure I understand that. On another note, I (surprisingly) like how the disemvoweling is becoming synonymous with the Yahoo brand (with Tumblr now as well). What seemed stale is starting to seem fresh again. Playful, almost, like a wink to Web 2.0 -- though I imagine it could be perceived as being out of touch too, if they don't play it right.

In before Yahr/Yahoor.

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

#149

Post by robotmay »

walid wrote: post #141
robotmay wrote: post #86

This 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…

The reason I would want to sign up a photo sharing service is to be able to display them online and also have them backed up at the same time. I am notorious at the backing up part. Guarantee me these 2 things and I'll be your paying customer. Edit: Right now I don't find the Ad Free account attractive, just saying. If anyone can have the same storage, what is flickr selling?

Backups are interesting, and something I had considered as a primary feature of the site. However this site is (currently) just me, and I don't feel that I could wholeheartedly say that a backup system relying on a single person is a good idea :) (unless that person is cperciva, in which case it's a-ok!)

Obviously I'm not expecting photos uploaded to the site to disappear at any moment (they're all on S3 anyway), but I'm not confident enough in the system yet to be able to offer anything like that, unfortunately.

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

#150

Post by skeletonjelly »

david_shaw wrote: post #142
pajju wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did not find it strange. You get 1TB extra i.e total 2 TB + no ads. Some interesting observations -- the cost of Free account for Yahoo is -- 450$ per free-user/year. So, lets be prepared to get ads all around. :)

It makes sense, but $499 per year is expensive for an additional 1TB, when the first TB is free.

The effort of managing two accounts seems like a low barrier for the cheap
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