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

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

chaffneue wrote: post #287
skkdkk wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am a pro user, but I don't have a recurring subscription, I just rebuy it every 2 years, now I'm going to have to pay double for no ads, seems like I got screwed most of all.

I feel a betrayed, too. I really don't understand why the plan went up in price and has less features. I have the attitude that I want to store (indefinitely), search and link my photos without being visually distracted with ads or pagination limits. In 7 years of using Flickr, I've only uploaded about 30GB of photos mostly just for archival use. Only a small group of Flickr users curate more than 20k photos. Most of…

> So why did they go for storage instead of pumping the features with premium subscriptions

1TB is a meaningless promise. No one will use a full terabyte for a long time to come. I have about 1,400 photos on Flickr today, almost all of which were shot with a DSLR. Even if you were to consider file size of my current camera in RAW, that would come out to about 31GB total; Jpeg will be a lot smaller.

So, they jettison features that are hard or costly, offer something that no one will actually use for a long time to come, and...profit, I suppose.

I think the time might have come for me to move entirely onto 500px, which kind of bums me out. I love 500px, but I've also been a Flickr user for over eight years.

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

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Post by jmathai »

robotmay wrote: post #309
jmathai wrote: post #307

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Most API rate limits are stated in the developer docs. By default I stay below 1 request per second and that seems to work for most APIs. If you wait long enough we'll eventually open source our import infrastructure :).

Doh, I feel like a pillock now - didn't realise Dean was talking about openphoto. I've not seen it before; it's a great idea. I haven't got an API yet (but it will be coming soon after beta) and I'm all about freedom of data and information, so if you fancied supporting Photographer.io as another data source in the future I'd be more than happy to help. I've worked a bit with Flickr's API in the past and found it ver…

Feel free to ping me (jaisen@{hackernewsusername}.com) to chat. I've got plenty of opinions to hand out for free.

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

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

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…

Lightroom catalog and RAW storage.

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

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Post by tonyblundell »

jrdn wrote: post #202
tonyblundell wrote: post #189

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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

It's $49.99 a year, though. As a fairly heavy flickr user I could easily see spending $4.16/month to remove ads.

But surely they don't make $49 per user per year on ads? It looks like they're over-charging on the paid accounts to cover the costs of the free accounts. Especially the 1TB is free, 2TB is $500 deal.

And it seems that after proving people will happily pay for premium features, they've now sent an email to all their customers which essentially says unless you have over 1TB of photos with us (which is pretty-much no-one), you may as well cancel and use the free account instead.

It seems like a very bizarre structure to me and I can't see people subscribing to it which is a shame as IMHO they've just vastly improved what was already by far the best product in its market.

I Hope I'm wrong.

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

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Post by tonyblundell »

gizzlon wrote: post #301
tonyblundell wrote: post #189

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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

I would if I used it a lot.. Extensive ads ruin a lot of webpages to the extend that I just stay away.. Yes, I know I could use adblock etc., which helps, but the design and layout is still much worse than it could be. It's worth paying a small amount to fix sites I use a lot. Also, it's the principle of the thing. If they can't see that their site is totally f#¤ useless and ugly, I'm not going to bother with them.

Maybe I'm in a minority, but I genuinely don't care about seeing the ads.

I'd never pay for them to be turned off, unless perhaps if it was a small site or community that I wanted to help out / donate to.

Oh, and the audio ads in Spotify, I'd pay in blood not to hear them :D

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

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Post by rmc »

chaffneue wrote: post #287
skkdkk wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am a pro user, but I don't have a recurring subscription, I just rebuy it every 2 years, now I'm going to have to pay double for no ads, seems like I got screwed most of all.

I feel a betrayed, too. I really don't understand why the plan went up in price and has less features. I have the attitude that I want to store (indefinitely), search and link my photos without being visually distracted with ads or pagination limits. In 7 years of using Flickr, I've only uploaded about 30GB of photos mostly just for archival use. Only a small group of Flickr users curate more than 20k photos. Most of…

So why did they go for storage instead of pumping the features with premium subscriptions.

It's more impressive. Storage is easy to add and increase. Just throw more harddisk at it. This not not the case with features (how do you reliably double your features?)

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

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Post by oakaz »

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…

Agree!

I can't believe Yahoo doesn't have a professional creative team to work on this product.

Flickr got screwed up by bunch of engineers who have no taste of aesthetics.

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