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

Post by jrdn » Tue, May 21, 2013, 12:10 AM UTC

tonyblundell wrote: post #189

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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…

The redesign looks awesome, but who's going to pay a recurring $49 just to remove ads? Can't help but think their money men might be about to screw this up. Hope not, love Flickr :-s

Post by krcz » Tue, May 21, 2013, 12:17 AM UTC

jebblue wrote: post #182

Is it possible to use it as general file storage for backups?

Post by randallu » Tue, May 21, 2013, 12:19 AM UTC

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philsnow wrote: post #73

The default privacy permissions are a bit loose for my taste, but I'm not big into sharing photos except with my direct family. Can anybody compare them with facebook's or picasa / google+'s default privacy settings ? Edit: I've made a bunch of comments as replies to this one. My conclusion is that New Flickr's privacy-friendliness is just barely above Facebook's. However, they haven't yet demonstrated _continuing_ w…

It looks like the android app uses a custom browser to render the third-party login pages, putting them in a position to trivially grab your password. I can't think of a reason to have done this. Sure, I would have liked for the "log in with Google" button to pop up the system account chooser, but at the very least, just fire off an intent and let the user's browser of choice take care of it.

Post by k2enemy » Tue, May 21, 2013, 12:23 AM UTC

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I initially liked the new photostream layout, but after using the site for a little while, I think I prefer the old layout. The new site definitely looks more modern and glossy, but there's a reason museums don't display photos in a huge mosaic -- it makes it very hard to focus on and consider one image at a time. Now to browse someone's photos I need to go into the "one image at a time" viewer, which takes longer an…

I'm not quite sure how I got to it, but go to user's stream and then tack on a ?details=1 to the end of the URL. I have no idea if that's an intentionally preserved view or not, but it's more like you're looking for.

Post by datums » Tue, May 21, 2013, 12:35 AM UTC

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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.