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

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Post by jarek »

tathagata wrote: post #296
jarek wrote: post #273

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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…

You can get the old interface by appending /?details=1 at the end of the photostream url. e.g. - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tathagatac/?details=1

But not by default, and not the previous "big photos in one column" layout for first page of photostream. (There's even a leftover link to change the layout at the bottom one's own details=1 page that 404s...)

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

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Post by markkanof »

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…

Offering a huge amount of storage is a great way to grab people's attention, but then most people won't actually use anywhere near that amount of space, so marketing wise it's a big win without actually requiring much technical change. Adding new features requires designing and implementing those features which is hard work.

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Post by corresation »

pbreit wrote: post #157
corresation wrote: post #76

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Humour me, but are you on the Flickr team? I'm seeing that page change before my very eyes, clearly as a "oh shit!" response when the discrepancies were noticed, and the cache excuse is as old as time.

Probably just didn't get all the edits in from the old FAQs. No reason for the accusations.

It was developer humour rather than an accusation. Many of us have been in the situation where we overlooked changing something, and when it's noticed we quickly change it and attribute the original mistake to some mysterious caching issue.

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

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Post by onli »

CrLf wrote: post #359
onli wrote: post #350

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Wasn't the big advantage of the Pro account unlimited storage? Do the ones with the account really store more than 1 or 2 TB? I understand that the price of the new paid account feels strange, but i don't think it is such a big failure. I don't know if Flickr really neded just a facelift. The overhaul signals more strongly that Flickr no longer stagnates. It could be that it was indeed a needed one, given the age of…

The problem is that now a Pro account (the way to get no ads) costs twice as much. Maybe the old interface could have used some polish, but the new one goes overboard cramming photos together and hiding metadata/comments. It looks like it is giving photos more relevance, but actually it just creates noise.

What do you mean with noise?

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Post by synx508 »

corresation wrote: post #58
ttf wrote: post #44

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When I log in, I see: "Dear [name], as a Pro member continue to enjoy the benefits of unlimited space, an ad free experience and stats." "Smile [username]. Flickr gives you one free terabyte of space. Share your photos in full resolution. See what's new Pro members, your subscription remains the same." It seems Pro is still here.

The pro badge is no more, and pro accounts exist only as grandfathered in plans. You can renew an existing pro account, but those who aren't currently can't subscribe to it.

It's worth pointing out that you can't renew existing pro accounts manually, only accounts that are set up with recurring transactions will renew automatically. For some reason this doesn't include my account, as far as I can tell. I'm a little annoyed about this.

As I understand it, accounts that were originally a gift, like mine, don't get the recurring transaction treatment. This makes sense, but only up to a point, that point being where the owner of the account renews it with a different credit card and it becomes truly "theirs".

I am not sure that flickr gave this scenario due consideration, there must be a lot of people who received pro as a gift but have since paid to renew it will be unable to benefit from the reduced "grandfathered" price of $25.

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Post by takluyver »

icebraining wrote: post #171
superuser2 wrote: post #105

I don't think I could ever come close to even 10GB with my residential cable connection. It would take months to upload that much.

I wonder if there's any company taking the "bandwidth of a station wagon" as a business model, by charging for uploading the contents of flash drives shipped to them.

AWS Import/Export - you send Amazon an external drive, they slurp it onto S3/EBS/Glacier.

http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/

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Post by blowski »

analog wrote: post #355
Pyrodogg wrote: post #346

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http://www.flickr.com/help/website/?search=sell+photos#32257...

Businesses do not need to be in the business of selling images in order to have a need to store images.

I just feel safer using Dropbox or Glacier. Flickr seems more like a social network, specialising in photos, and I wouldn't feel comfortable about using a service like that as a backup. As a business, the TOS are just not clear enough about what I can and can't store.

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

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Post by kailuowang »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #335
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…

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 intereste…

Have you seen pBase? That's what photographers used to have before flickr
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