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

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Post by fakeer »

What happened to their "only last 80 or 100 or so photos visible for free accounts" feature, is it gone for new free accounts?

People resist change but I really believe the old interface was more photographically inclined! The new interface looks like, how do I say it..., a little too much or just loud, trying to be hip or sth or web n.0. Whatever.

Someone needs to tell me the logic behind Ad-free and Doublr plans' pricing because I just failed to the point! Or it's a typing error, Yahoo might fix in a week or so?

Good to see some change and work at Flickr!.

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

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Post by leviathant »

leephillips wrote: post #209

They just sent me this in an email: "As a Pro Member, your subscription remains the same. You'll enjoy unlimited space for your photos and videos, detailed stats and an ad-free experience. However, you can switch to a Free account before August 20, 2013." I can't understand what this is supposed to mean. But it sounds like the pro account, which provided unlimited storage for $25/yr, is going away. I wonder what they…

Pro accounts appear to be grandfathered in - you keep the unlimited space, you can continue to renew at $25/yr, but with the 'Free' account, you can upload larger individual files - 200mb photos in 'Free' vs 50mb photos in 'Pro', 1gb videos in 'Free' vs 500mb in 'Pro' - there are more details at http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/

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

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Post by namwen »

kailuowang wrote: post #227

I hate this new layout. Artistic images need space, especially images that aren't meant to be place together. Otherwise their color would collide with each other and ruin the visual experience for them. If flickr wants to become a social network that features family photos maybe that's the right layout, but I think most of the pro users weren't paying $25 a year for that purpose. Flickr is no longer a valid place to…

I have to agree with you. I only post my "Art" photography on flickr and all the people I follow do the same. Seeing this huge mashup of all the varying styles and works together is really terrible. It's just not a nice way of presenting photography.

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

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Post by porsupah »

jckt wrote: post #89

I remember a lot of people noting that facebook's UI evolution toward a focus on images rather than text is theoretically nice. That is, it's presented very well whenever the images are nice, but on facebook that's rarely the case--a quick look through my homefeed, it's either blurry party shots/selfies or obnoxiously filtered Instagram pictures. Flickr seems to have made the same evolution, and in that respect its U…

> where else on the Internet will you find more professionally-taken pictures?

The main venue which comes to mind is 500px. However, with its leanings toward a more professional level comes a lack of the fun, informal atmosphere of Flickr. I maintain a presence on both, for now, and thoroughly enjoy Flickr - but, I'll have to keep an eye on what happens there hereon. As they say, the headlines giveth, the fine print taketh away. =:/

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

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Post by rallison »

fakeer wrote: post #251

What happened to their "only last 80 or 100 or so photos visible for free accounts" feature, is it gone for new free accounts? People resist change but I really believe the old interface was more photographically inclined ! The new interface looks like, how do I say it..., a little too much or just loud, trying to be hip or sth or web n.0. Whatever. Someone needs to tell me the logic behind Ad-free and Doublr plans'…

The "only the last 200" photos visible "feature" is now gone, as is the 300MB/month limit. Yahoo has decided to pursue the gmail strategy - offer a huge amount of free storage as compared to the competition.

The ad-free plan is probably most attractive for professional users (pro photographers, business accounts, etc) as it means no ads for anybody when viewing photos of a paid account.

The doublr plan seems pretty clearly targeted at business accounts where $500/year is trivial. It definitely isn't a typo.

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

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Post by rallison »

leviathant wrote: post #252
leephillips wrote: post #209

They just sent me this in an email: "As a Pro Member, your subscription remains the same. You'll enjoy unlimited space for your photos and videos, detailed stats and an ad-free experience. However, you can switch to a Free account before August 20, 2013." I can't understand what this is supposed to mean. But it sounds like the pro account, which provided unlimited storage for $25/yr, is going away. I wonder what they…

Pro accounts appear to be grandfathered in - you keep the unlimited space, you can continue to renew at $25/yr, but with the 'Free' account, you can upload larger individual files - 200mb photos in 'Free' vs 50mb photos in 'Pro', 1gb videos in 'Free' vs 500mb in 'Pro' - there are more details at http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/

I wonder if the 200MB vs 50MB differentiation is intentional. As a Pro user, I was curious, so I tried uploading a 70MB file. The flickr uploader complained. I tried a 30MB file and it was happy. So, it appears that, at least as of now, the 50MB limit may still be in place for Pro users.

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

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Post by tn13 »

How much would it cost to store 2TB in Amazon s3 ?

With $0.080 per GB per month it is 0.08204812 = $1966 per year

And that is just storage. Flickr provides lot more than just storage. So $500 per year does sound reasonable and 1TB free sounds like a crazy good offer.

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