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

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Post by aeturnum »

jarek wrote: post #273
aeturnum wrote: post #194

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Personally, I'd like Flickr to be both a photo viewer and organizer. I don't feel like the new interface is any worse for organizing photos, and I'm much more likely to point people to a flickr set with the new layout. Your opinion seems very much in-line with the hugely negative reaction thread on flickr[1]. I'd be interested in the specific functionality you lost in the update that you miss. [1] http://www.flickr.c…

Front page looks too busy at 1280 px wide. I can't quantify why - maybe it looks too appy rather than like a page. I used to rant a lot about Flickr showing me 500 px wide photos with oceans of whitespace on my large screens - now it looks like they've gone overboard in the other direction... Photos in different styles don't look great mashed up right next to each other on my photostream. Old design had an option to…

My vertical photos do look oddly small in the new layout.

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Post by robotmay »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #313
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.

Lightroom integration is something I'm keen on. In regards to RAW storage; would that be for backups?

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

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Post by ivix »

0x0 wrote: post #26

1TB isn't that impressive when you have to deal with a 300MB/month upload rate limit: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ It'd take 291 years to fill up the 1TB allowance: https://www.google.com/search?q=1TB+%2F+(300+MB%2Fmonth) (Also looks like there's a missing on that limits page, there.) Edit: Looks like the page is being edited right this moment - the page used to list the 300MB/month limit but was also mentionin…

For most normal users taking a normal amount of photos, that's absolutely fine.

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

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Post by fakeer »

skkdkk wrote: post #203
adventured wrote: post #102

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From what I'm reading, existing Pro users will be grandfathered and have the ability to continue with their existing subscription.

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.

If ads are good I actually love looking at them. Occasionally I click too and if they actually catch my fancy, I buy. But this (the last part) is extremely rare.

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Post by apricot13 »

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

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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…

this!

I'm a premium user, have been for the past 5 years, I don't see what being pro gives me any more and I'm paid up until may 2014! I feel like I'm being screwed over!

is there still a 200 photo limit on free accounts?

are they secretly pushing people back into free accounts so they can kill flickr more easily because there aren't so many poeple paying?

new design is good though, horay for FINALLY being able to middle click the nav now! can't wait till they fix the organizr!

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Post by blowski »

analog wrote: post #265
jonknee wrote: post #214

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I doubt a corp card limit has anything to do with it, this isn't a business product.

Because businesses don't need to store images? I've built an image library for a FTSE100 company. $499 per year for storage and access to a decent API would have looked pretty cheap to be honest.

Because Flickr TOS say you can't have a business account. http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157626812125880/

I've seen nothing that says that's changed.

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Post by CrLf »

onli wrote: post #168
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 s…

"Give it time."

Flickr was in need of a facelift, but not a complete overhaul. This just seems to me like a rehash of Delicious (the difference being that Flickr is still a part of Yahoo): redesign the whole thing to make it more "social" and "hip" and lose what made it a great service in the process. Delicious is still awful compared to what it was even under Yahoo's governance and I don't think Flickr is going to recover from this either.

And what's this about dropping their Pro accounts in favor of some 1TB free space nonsense? Yeah, that's going to work...

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Post by mahyarm »

robotmay wrote: post #149
walid wrote: post #141

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The reason I would want to sign up a photo sharing service is to be able to display them online and also have them backed up at the same time. I am notorious at the backing up part. Guarantee me these 2 things and I'll be your paying customer. Edit: Right now I don't find the Ad Free account attractive, just saying. If anyone can have the same storage, what is flickr selling?

Backups are interesting, and something I had considered as a primary feature of the site. However this site is (currently) just me, and I don't feel that I could wholeheartedly say that a backup system relying on a single person is a good idea :) (unless that person is cperciva, in which case it's a-ok!) Obviously I'm not expecting photos uploaded to the site to disappear at any moment (they're all on S3 anyway), but…

It seems like not many services want to be the full RAW backup service that also does easy photo sharing. As in press a button and get a zip file of the gallery type of photo sharing that you get with G+. You do

You have 3 tiers: 1. RAW backups 2. Full JPEG renders downloadable in a zip file 3. Smaller JPEGs for online slideshows and viewing.

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