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Post by leffemonster on Nov 9, 2018 2:44:37 GMT -8
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Post by stevenjohn on Nov 9, 2018 5:52:47 GMT -8
Flickr is a tragic story in mismanagement. Yahoo completely destroyed the world's best photographer discussion website and replaced it with a big cloud storage. That didn't work and Smugmug now has to try to generate revenue.
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Post by pip on Nov 9, 2018 7:18:26 GMT -8
They’ve also just doubled the price. I’ve had Flickr for years and years as I used to do photography part time and I happily continued to let $25 a year go to them. If they’d upped it to $30 I would have carried on but doubling it really pisses me off so I’ve written to them asking to cancel and get a refund for the remaining 11 months. Let’s hope it’s not another photobucket farce. It does make me wonder, what type of phuking cloud do these morons live on if they don’t realise that their asinine decisions will completely phuk a long standing (by internet standards) business.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2018 8:42:59 GMT -8
It was only a matter of time before the others followed Photophuket  |
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Post by stevenjohn on Nov 9, 2018 9:58:58 GMT -8
They’ve also just doubled the price. I’ve had Flickr for years and years as I used to do photography part time and I happily continued to let $25 a year go to them. If they’d upped it to $30 I would have carried on but doubling it really pisses me off so I’ve written to them asking to cancel and get a refund for the remaining 11 months. Let’s hope it’s not another photobucket farce. It does make me wonder, what type of phuking cloud do these morons live on if they don’t realise that their asinine decisions will completely phuk a long standing (by internet standards) business. Yahoo screwed a lot of Pro users too when it went to big storage. Many paid for the extra room and then Yahoo decided to give everyone the same space for free. That irked many loyal customers. It also made it a dumping ground of every photo to be uploaded en masse. That meant the ratio of good photos to crap dropped dramatically. It was no longer a site for photographers and most users just started treating it like a storage device.
How do you think they'll start deleting photos >1000? Oldest first? That will mean even less good photos. Old thread discussions will come up blank. What a disaster...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2018 11:16:35 GMT -8
Slowly but surely the Internet is becoming less free than it was intended in the beginning. |
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Post by leffemonster on Nov 9, 2018 11:21:24 GMT -8
How do you think they'll start deleting photos >1000? Oldest first? That will mean even less good photos. Old thread discussions will come up blank. What a disaster...
According to their statement it’ll be from the oldest first until they reach the magic number. So, yes, just like when Photobucket held everyone to ransom there’ll be a shit load of useless threads. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2018 12:21:01 GMT -8
How do you think they'll start deleting photos >1000? Oldest first? That will mean even less good photos. Old thread discussions will come up blank. What a disaster...
According to their statement it’ll be from the oldest first until they reach the magic number. So, yes, just like when Photobucket held everyone to ransom there’ll be a shit load of useless threads. Remember when PB did their thieving; everyone swore that it wouldn't happen to flikr, imgur, etc.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2018 12:30:15 GMT -8
LOL! I just got an e-mail from Photophuket wanting me to update my account.
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Post by leffemonster on Nov 9, 2018 13:01:54 GMT -8
It was only a matter of time before other ‘free’ hosting sites started to migrate to a subscription service.
I’m undecided which way to go tbh. Moving to Flickr’s Pro service is (currently) $50 a year which works out at about 13p a day. But then do I really want to pay for the privilege of ‘unlimited storage’ when I’m currently using less than 1% of my currently free allowance?
I’m sure it won’t make any odds which other hosting service I might consider either - they’ll probably all move to a ransom-model in the end.
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Post by pip on Nov 9, 2018 13:37:08 GMT -8
It was only a matter of time before other ‘free’ hosting sites started to migrate to a subscription service. I’m undecided which way to go tbh. Moving to Flickr’s Pro service is (currently) $50 a year which works out at about 13p a day. But then do I really want to pay for the privilege of ‘unlimited storage’ when I’m currently using less than 1% of my currently free allowance? I’m sure it won’t make any odds which other hosting service I might consider either - they’ll probably all move to a ransom-model in the end. It’s not even the bullseye for me Nick, it’s the fact I was paying a pony and they Barney’d it with out so much as a by your leave. |
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