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I don't think I could ever come close to even 10GB with my residential cable connection. It would take months to upload that much.
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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 $499 per year is expensive for an additional 1TB, when the first TB is free.
Now this is like -- 1TB online storage = 450$/year, doesn't make sense now.
"Ad Free" just sounds like a bland name.
Does the paid membership make your browsing experience ad free or prevent ads from showing on your profile on photos? I could see the latter allowing for much cleaner and professional galleries.
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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 go…
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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 go…
And you'd find it quite hard to leave a service after you've uploaded 1TB of data to it..
I don't think I could ever come close to even 10GB with my residential cable connection. It would take months to upload that much.
Are you being cute about limits, or did you make a math error? A dial up modem can do gigabytes per month...
I was talking about uploading a terabyte. Also on my connection, when one person is uploading, download speed falls from 25Mbps to a crawl. I think it's something to do with coax being half-duplex. My family wouldn't put up with slow internet for the 24.73 hours it would take to upload 10GB, let alone the two months it would take to push a terabyte.
If I had to move that kind of data, I would mail storage media.
That said, I still love the fact that something is happening to the site. Just like 500px, I think such sites are great to get feedback and exposure, just a little awkward when it comes to really calling them home.
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).
I don't even need 1 GB for my photos. What I do need, and what flickr still doesn't have from what I can see [if I missed it, I'd be glad to be corrected], is a way to update an existing photo (upload the tweaked file, but keep the tags and URL etc.). Maybe this is to prevent abuse (make photo of cute kitten, wait until a lot of people favourited it, swap image with something gross), but still... carving digital imag…
On the new Flickr, if you go to a single image page and click the three dots in the lower right corner, there is an option to "replace this photo."
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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…
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.
