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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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Post by Osmium »

salimmadjd wrote: post #155
ghshephard wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

best explanation of their pricing structure yet. What's stopping people from creating multiple accounts and use flickr as a cloud backup system for free?

Agreed that this is why Yahoo is pricing it this way -- but I imagine it won't stop the pricing feeling "wrong" to many people. "Why should I pay $500 a year for just a little bit more than I what I was getting for free?"

I would imagine, at that price point, it would drive people to use multiple accounts despite the irritation -- and that ultimately, because of that irritation, they might leave the service. Not a good situation for anyone.

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

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Post by notdrunkatall »

danso wrote: post #17

Amusingly, in the Yahoo/Tumblr acquisition thread, I complained about how little Yahoo has improved on Flickr...but otherwise, I was a happy paying customer. Currently, I pay $25 for a year's worth of unlimited photo storage and being ad-free. With this new plan, I have to pay twice as much for what I have now...because even as a 3+ year (almost 4 now) member, I haven't uploaded enough to fill a terabyte. Kind of a b…

Lol, your comment was the first thing I thought about when I saw the title of this article over on reddit.

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

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Post by MartinCron »

corresation wrote: post #58
ttf wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I log in, I see: "Dear [name], as a Pro member continue to enjoy the benefits of unlimited space, an ad free experience and stats." "Smile [username]. Flickr gives you one free terabyte of space. Share your photos in full resolution. See what's new Pro members, your subscription remains the same." It seems Pro is still here.

The pro badge is no more, and pro accounts exist only as grandfathered in plans. You can renew an existing pro account, but those who aren't currently can't subscribe to it.

OK, maybe I'm shallow and elitist, but at least I'm honest. I always liked seeing my little "pro" badge there...

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

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Post by pajju »

Yahoo is looking fresh again!

I think this a well-thought idea to -- get more social.

Also with this move, it might push Google users to consider syncing and sharing their photos to Flickr now. Google gives 5GB for high-resolution, i.e original quality photos, Yahoo is giving 1TB, but think yahoo ads.

Any such kind of service is a lock-in ( platform level, so more control) and maybe they integrate tumblr strongly with photos? ( again a deeper lock-in to yahoo only core-products).

All this means -- they are back into Internet business.

From the past 2 days, there were enormous analysis around Yahoo, its principles were questioned, so did this all reach the board and the top management? :)

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

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Post by clauretano »

jordn wrote: post #147
pajju wrote: post #103

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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.

Something like Trovebox[0] might be a solution to your needs. You can use it as the web frontend to photos stored on dropbox/s3/box/etc

[0] https://trovebox.com/

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

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Post by onli »

film42 wrote: post #23

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).

Give it time. That is the archetypical reaction of a user being confronted by change (angry is else hard to explain).

Flickr's job isn't that easy to be defined. It serves many purposes: Being able to upload and store images there, to organize them, but also to view them of course. Having a new UI putting the images first seems quite reasonable given that definition of flickr.

Besides, the old interface was neither simple nor useable if one wasn't used to it. No one outside of Flickr had time yet to find out whether the new Interface works.

More general remark: We had a good impression what it was likde for the Flickr-Team inside Yahoo. No ressources, no ability to change or improve the service, blocked by bureaucracy and unwilling management. That they are able now to deliver such an upgrade is downright impressive. 1 TB alone is massive and would never have been possible with the old situation, given the description. There really is change in that place.

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

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Post by Zarel »

dbpatterson wrote: post #158
Zarel wrote: post #138

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Where would the average person find some place with higher bandwidth than their residential cable connection?

Not being able to upload 10GB in months is a pretty slow residential cable connection. So presumably find somewhere with a faster one (like an internet cafe, library, etc). It shouldn't be hard to find a place with a free connection that'll let you send 0.5MB/sec, which means you can clear 10GB in about 5.5 hours (if my quick math is right) - not a terribly long time. Of course, in most urban areas, at least in the U…

Well, "10GB in months" was probably at least a bit hyperbole.

And slow internet connections come from infrastructure problems - the local internet cafe or library's internet isn't likely to be much better.

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