Won't they lose a lot of paid subscribers? I currently have a Pro account but 1Tb will be plentiful so I'm not planning to renew my subscription
Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
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Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#332This is great for the so-called "photo-enthusiasts." I'll probably sign up on that basis. But I'm not sure I understand the mobile play. Most of my mobile photos are horrid quality and when I take a photo with my phone 100% of the time it is with the intent to share with others, either via SMS or Facebook or Twitter. I would be happy to share on Flickr. There's only one problem. That of course is that none of my frie…
> Most of my mobile photos are horrid quality Here's a few photos I've taken with my phone: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8607495076/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8539300849/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8526482251/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8479530691/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8479526973/ Phone cameras have gotten a hell of a lot better in the past couple of years.
I wish I'd be able to do this kind of photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lonfong/8363181496/
taken from
http://www.flickr.com/cameras/samsung/galaxy_s_iii/
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That is a random comment in a forum from someone who doesn't represent Flickr.
The actual TOS make no mention of whether you can have a business account or not. In face the best practices page specifically provides guidelines for businesses.
"This guide is intended to help organizations—such as businesses, groups and non-profits—get the most out of Flickr."
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#334I'm a Pro subscriber and I applaud them for starting to improve Flickr.
However, $49.99 a year just for the privilege of getting no ads? Compared to the $25 people pay for Pro accounts, that's way overblown.
And yes, compared to cloud storage, given 1 TB of storage, this is rather cheap. However, considering that this storage can only be used for photos and videos and that most of these photos and videos are meant to be public, at least within your circle of friends, which drives more traffic to Flickr, well I consider $50 per year to be way too much.
While I am able to keep my subscription for now, I always thought that Flickr is sustainable because they value their Pro users and this move makes me think they don't.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#335I 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…
Interesting.
As a viewer, not an artist, I considered Flickr the biggest usability failure among the part of web that is actually used by people. I mean it. It was my worst photo-browsing experience ever (even lists of images on Wikimedia Commons are nicer).
I never understood why people posted photos to this website or how it became popular. Could you, or anyone, share some thoughts of that? I am genuinely interested in how people who were more target-audience felt about Flickr.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"probably 99% will use less than 100 gigabytes"
I suspect you meant MEGAbytes ;-)
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Help is at hand:
http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633549071436/
"But we are working on a plan to let non-recurring Pro member sign up for recurring Pro subscription. We will post more details when they become available."
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#338The Android app STILL does not provide automatic upload. That is the only thing I want or need from the Android app - I backup images I take on my phone, and make public the few that I want to share. So now I use Google+. But I have years of photos on Flickr, so I'd still like to switch back.
I really don't understand why it's missing.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 mi…
It's worth noting that if you cancel your Pro account (I just did), Flickr pledges to return the balance of your membership fee (prorated).
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#340I 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.
Works well for travel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/terretta/
But poorly for featured photos with no relationship to one another. This set is generated based on Fickr's "Interestingness" algorithm:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terretta/sets/72157594261074270...
The relative prominence of these machine selected photos is clearly not associated with artistic quality or visual impact.
I would think Flickr of all sites has enough data to do a visual impact based layout even on photos with zero views and no metadata.
That would have really impressed me. Otherwise, these new masonry layouts are just trendiness mistakenly misallocating artistic emphasis.