Flickr news

[crazyjim]

When the Photobucket issue(s) arose, I opened a flickr account because it was free.  I just got a notice that come January 8, 2019, they'll charge $50.00 per year for unlimited pics.  If you want to remain free, you'll get only 1,000 pics. 

Is Fotki the most popular choice?

[stitchdup]

I took the deal. I lost nearly all my pics with pb so $4 a month isn't too bad to save me the hassle again. But my flickr is also used by the local vintage club since I make sure to have everything from their show on it

[stitchdup]

I've been looking into alternative hosting methods for those that dont want to pay for pic hosting. If you have a facebook account you can use it as a host in much the same way as current hosts work. Another method is to find a sites that do free blog hosting (eg. tumblr) as you can use them as pic host too. Hope this information helps someone

[Deuces]

I just looked on my cellphone a bit ago.... I have over 15,000 images stashed in it.... ?? WOW!

[Jim N]

I have used Fotki's fee for service for quite some time and am pleased with it.  Everybody has their preference as to what is best, but I haven't taken the time to look into anything else.

[dodgefever]

I used Photobucket until they drove everyone away, then I switched to Fotki.   The interface took some adjustment, but I'm happy with it now. 

I don't know if it's my settings or plug-ins, but people's Flickr photos never show up here, I only see a text link.

[martinfan5]

Following Photobucket's move to convert free accounts to paid, Flickr is doing the same,  all free accounts that do not upgrade by 8th Of January, 2019, will be limited to just 1000 photos , and if you have more than 1000 photos, you have by 5th of February, 2019 to download the oldest photos before they are deleted, yep, you read that correctly, they are going to delete photo's from the free accounts.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/11/free-flickr-accounts-slashed-to-1000-pictures-the-rest-will-be-deleted/

Edited November 8, 2018 by martinfan5

[peteski]

I guess you've missed the ongoing discussion about this, in this section, about 10 posts down from yours.

Imageshack did the same thing to me few years back.

Edited November 8, 2018 by peteski

[martinfan5]

16 hours ago, peteski said:

I guess you've missed the ongoing discussion about this, in this section, about 10 posts down from yours.

Imageshack did the same thing to me few years back.

You guess correctly, I failed to check to make sure there was not a thread already for this subject.

Ive been a member of Flickr since 2009, but it wasnt till Photobucket did there thing that I started using my Flickr account , I have just over 3500 photo's stored on my free account ,  all the older photos  are all backed up locally so if I dont remove them before, no loss.   I wont be paying them $50 or even $38 for a years worth storage, there are much cheaper options out in the wild west that is the internet

[StevenGuthmiller]

Fotki is $24.00 a year.

Great service!

 

Steve

[Lovefordgalaxie]

I'll be leaving Flickr after their change in mind and no longer offering 1 TB of free space. 

Will just upload the pictures direct here. Have all my pictures in a separate picture only HD, so, I will loose nothing.

All my posts before now will get picture-less tough, and I won't spent a month fixing them by re uploading because Flickr decided to blackmail it's free accounts. 

When I got into Flickr, the free accounts had a low picture showing number, If I remember correctly, they would show your last 100 pictures, and the rest only you could see. Started there with a pro account. Kept the Pro account up to when they started offering one terabit of free storage space. I never used the "special pro account functions" anyway, so, I went free. Worked great, until they got greedy. 

Yeah, pay 50 Dollars, or we will delete (not just not show, they will delete the material) every single picture and video you have over 1000 pictures and videos. That's blackmail in my book. Have over 13.000 pictures stored there. They will delete 12.000 pictures from my account in February.  

[Tom Geiger]

I just renewed Fotki for 5 years.  $92, which is $18.40 a year.

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

I paid P-bucket from the beginning, so I could use Adblock (which eliminates all the complaints of slow-loading, etc. that co many "free" users complained about) with a clear conscience.

When the big blackmail debacle occurred, they grandfathered my account in, and I never lost access to anything.

Now, with the new management, my account is still working just fine at the price I was paying back in 2012.

I didn't have to waste days transferring images and replacing the new addresses all over the web either.

it's been my lifelong experience that anything you get for free is usually worth exactly what you paid for it.  

 

[StevenGuthmiller]

I consider any photo hosting site that I use as a "temporary rental arrangement".

There are no guarantees that any of them will not pull the same sort of stunt that Photobucket did somewhere down the road.

I keep all of my photos on my hard drive, & if I feel that I need to keep them "safe", I can put them on an external drive.

entrusting all of your photos to an external source like a "free hosting site" is sheer stupidity, especially now that it has become obvious to all of us, (post Photobucket), what can happen.

If Fotki turns on us, I will be out nothing, just like when Photobucket tried to give us all the shaft.

I know where all of my photos are.

 

Steve

[Rob Hall]

I put my trust in Apple, I keep all my photos in iCloud and they get mirrored between my iPhone, iPad and Mac Book Pro.  I also have them backed up to 2 external drives.   I do have a paid account with Fotki, but don't use it a lot. 

[89AKurt]

Yes I'm dredging up an old thread, because it's specifically about Flickr.  I've been ticked off about various issues with the platform, but it's been working *good enough* for me lately.  I joined 2006, have 9,576 photos invested.  I really need to use it for posting on the Chevy truck forum, since you are extremely limited in posting in their gallery.  I tried Ipernity when the you-know-what hit the fan, but was never happy with it.  So whenever we decide to use another hosting site, and the old one is deleted, all posts with links become useless.  ?

So this is the latest, not only pointing out they lose money, but there is a coupon code.

Email from them Dec. 19:

Dear Flickr Pros,

First, and above all else: thank you. Thank you for being a part of our community. Thank you for caring about Flickr. Thank you for supporting Flickr. Thank you for being a Flickr Pro.

Two years ago, Flickr was losing tens of millions of dollars a year. Our company, SmugMug, stepped in to rescue it from being shut down and to save tens of billions of your precious photos from being erased.

Why? We’ve spent 17 years lovingly building our company into a thriving, family-owned and -operated business that cares deeply about photographers. SmugMug has always been the place for photographers to showcase their photography, and we’ve long admired how Flickr has been the community where they connect with each other. We couldn’t stand by and watch Flickr vanish. 

So we took a big risk, stepped in, and saved Flickr. Together, we created the world’s largest photographer-focused community: a place where photographers can stand out and fit in.

And yet, Flickr—the world’s most-beloved, money-losing business—still needs your help.

We’ve been hard at work improving Flickr. We hired an excellent, large staff of Support Heroes who now deliver support with an average customer satisfaction rating of above 90%. We got rid of Yahoo’s login. We moved the platform and every photo to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the industry leader in cloud computing, and modernized its technology along the way. As a result, pages are already 20% faster and photos load 30% more quickly. Platform outages, including Pandas, are way down. Flickr continues to get faster and more stable, and important new features are being built once again.

Our work is never done, but we’ve made tremendous progress.

Flickr still needs your help. It’s still losing money. You, and hundreds of thousands of loyal Flickr members stepped up and joined Flickr Pro, for which we are eternally grateful. It’s losing a lot less money than it was. But it’s not yet making enough.

We need more Flickr Pro members if we want to keep the Flickr dream alive, and we need your help to share the story of Flickr.

We didn’t buy Flickr because we thought it was a cash cow. Unlike platforms like Facebook, we also didn’t buy it to invade your privacy and sell your data. We bought it because we love photographers, we love photography, and we believe Flickr deserves not only to live on but thrive. We think the world agrees; and we think the Flickr community does, too. But we cannot continue to operate it at a loss as we’ve been doing.

Flickr is the world’s largest photographer-focused community. It’s the world’s best way to find great photography and connect with amazing photographers. Flickr hosts some of the world’s most iconic, most priceless photos, freely available to the entire world. This community is home to more than 100 million accounts and tens of billions of photos. It serves billions of photos every single day. It’s huge. It’s a priceless treasure for the whole world. And it costs money to operate. Lots of money.

As you know, Flickr is the best value in photo sharing anywhere in the world. Flickr Pro members get ad-free browsing for themselves and their visitors, advanced stats, unlimited full-quality storage for all their photos, plus premium features and access to the world’s largest photographer-focused community.

Please, help us spread the word. Help us make Flickr thrive. Help us ensure Flickr has a bright future. Every Flickr Pro subscription goes directly to keeping Flickr alive and creating great new experiences for photographers like you. We are building lots of great things for the Flickr community, but we need your help. We can do this together.

We’re launching our end-of-year Pro subscription campaign on Thursday, December 26, but I want to give you a coupon code to share with friends, family, or anyone who shares your love of photography and community so they can enjoy the same 25% discount before the campaign starts.

We’ve gone to great lengths to optimize Flickr for cost savings wherever possible, but the increasing cost of operating this enormous community and continuing to invest in its future will require a small price increase early in the new year, so this is truly the very best time to help everyone upgrade to a Pro membership.

If you value Flickr finally being independent, built for photographers and by photographers, we need your help. 

With gratitude,

Don MacAskill
Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Geek
SmugMug + Flickr 

Please share coupon code 25in2019 or link below to give the gift of 25% off Flickr Pro now.

[89AKurt]

Testing, does anyone see only text?  You need to delete the 'url' parts at each end when posting to avoid text.

[Fat Brian]

I can see the picture. 

[Tom Geiger]

Kurt, I see your photo of a 1950 Ford pickup.  And I noticed it's on Flickr.

Why not just post the photos direct to this board?  I have a great Fotki account, but I'm posting direct to the board.

[89AKurt]

10 minutes ago, Fat Brian said:

I can see the picture. 

Good thanks.

Just now, Tom Geiger said:

Kurt, I see your photo of a 1950 Ford pickup.  And I noticed it's on Flickr.

Why not just post the photos direct to this board?  I have a great Fotki account, but I'm posting direct to the board.

Good.  For old photos, instead of digging out of the digital vault, it's better to pull from Flickr.  For everything done after I joined this forum, I've used the website to post.  For example, this wood car I carved last century, silly to waste space on this forum to paste it.

[crazyjim]

I got that email from flickr too.  I clicked a couple of times but could never find the price or for how long the price will last.