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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

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Post by foobarqux »

Jackim wrote: post #124
dkrich wrote: post #111

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The stock price is up, I'll give you that, but in terms of actual user/profit/revenue growth what are the numbers to suggest that she is turning the company around? Flashy product acquisitions and page redesigns a turnaround o not make. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just interested in seeing the hard numbers.

I'm thinking she's not as concerned about that yet. Her first step seems to be making Yahoo and it's brands "cool" again.

Being cool is not a business model.

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

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Post by epa »

gyardley wrote: post #187

Interesting design choices - the photos are highlighted front and center but all the social aspects of Flickr have been shoved downward into have-to-scroll territory. Contrast this to Facebook and Instagram, which both use a right sidebar layout for profile and comments, which ensures everything's easily visible above the fold. If you've been using Flickr as a social tool, making and getting lots of comments, I could…

Good insights - I agree with you. As a past social flickr user, I checked out my old account. It took me quite a while to find old comments and new activity, which is much different than the past of it being up front.

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Post by analog »

jonknee wrote: post #214
analog wrote: post #180

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It's just under the standard $500 authorisation limit for big corp credit cards. It also makes the $49 per year offer seem cheap.

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.

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Post by kalleboo »

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.

I'm in the same boat. Also, the narcissist in me will miss the stats feature.

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Post by kalleboo »

ghshephard wrote: post #216
salimmadjd wrote: post #155

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best explanation of their pricing structure yet. What's stopping people from creating multiple accounts and use flickr as a cloud backup system for free?

Nothing will stop them - but, (and I'm just guessing here) - the type of people who host more than one terabyte of photos on flickr probably don't want to screw around with multiple accounts - tracking your detailed stats, alone, gets to be a hassle with multiple accounts. Obviously some people will - but I'm guessing those will be few enough not to matter. The bulk of the people who want to host 2 Terabytes of Photo…

> tracking your detailed stats, alone, gets to be a hassle with multiple accounts

Stats are gone anyway with the new account types.

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

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Post by ChrisNorstrom »

While I do welcome it... Design wasn't Flickr's problem, it's the piss poor search engine and it's people uploading millions of their blurry family photos and clogging up the search results with garbage. Flickr needs to decide what it wants to be, an image hosting site or a photography community. One will kill the other so stop trying to be both.

I routinely hunt for creative commons / copyrighted images for ads and commercial use on flickr (yes, that means contacting each and every photographer to purchase rights). I've spent a minimum of over one hundred hours tediously going through the search results. Flickr has one of the worst search engine algorithms I've ever seen. It's dumb beyond all reason. I'll search for "Mountain View Lake" and get a page full of "Asian Children". I mean it's really random.

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Post by rallison »

datums wrote: post #210
ghshephard wrote: post #144

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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.

Completely agree. This is similar to shared host that offer unlimited space. For those using a lot of share/cpu, they'll get a friendly reminder to upgrade, then a notice that they can't continue supporting them as a client with their current plan. The Flickr Pro account 24.95/yr for "unlimited storage" was an easy purchase. When you login with your Pro account you are suggested to downgrade to the new 1TB (ad) accou…

As a current Pro user, $25 per year to continue unlimited storage, no ads (for me and for all viewing my photos) and photo statistics is still an easy sell.

However, if I were signing up for an account today, I would most likely not purchase a paid account - my main reason for paying for an account was to get past the "only your last 200 photos are visible" limitation. That said, if I actually used my flickr account for business purposes, I would not hesitate to pay $50 per year to remove ads from my photos. I suspect many professionals would agree.

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