Flickr changes to free accounts

[TanDeeJay]

(I couldn't find a thread discussing this issue, so started a new one)

 

I'm sure everyone who is a flickr user is aware by now of the impending changes to free flickr accounts...

namely:

    previously, free accounts got 1Tb of storage

    in the next 2 months free accounts will be limited to 1000 photos.

see http://blog.flickr.net/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-accounts-1000-photos/ for more details..

 

Bugger!! This means I'm going to have to delete some 1300 photos from my flickr account before the Feburary deadline when Flickr will start deleting them for me starting from the oldest 1st.

So being an amateur photographer, this means that I'm going to be basing my image deletion on if I think the image is worth keeping in my flickr account, so all those KSP screen shots are going to have to go elsewhere

This is potentially going to impact any thread in this forum where images are being hosted on flickr.

Who else is going to have issues with their KSP forum threads due to having to delete images from flickr?

And what options are you using to replace flickr for your image hosting?

(anyone who is NOT using flickr already, could you post info about where you do host your images, so those of us who have to move off flickr can see whats worthwhile looking at as a flickr replacement?)

 

Cheers,

John

 

 

 

[Harry Rhodan]

I would be surprised if anyone is using flickr for screenshots. Most people have probably been using imgur for tha last few years.

[LordFerret]

I don't rely on the cloud or any online service for storage of my data, pictures or otherwise.  None of you should either.

[Tonka Crash]

I've been using Flickr Pro account under my real name for over a decade, so the change isn't a big deal to me. But, for this game I created an imgur account as it seem to be the de facto standard for use on this forum.

[Geonovast]

9 hours ago, LordFerret said:

I don't rely on the cloud or any online service for storage of my data, pictures or otherwise.  None of you should either.

I don't think the issue is really keeping a copy of the picture, but more of having hundreds or thousands of hotlinks, like here on the forum, being broken and the shear near-impossibility fixing the situation.

[TanDeeJay]

 

 

On 12/29/2018 at 9:57 PM, Harry Rhodan said:

I would be surprised if anyone is using flickr for screenshots. Most people have probably been using imgur for tha last few years.

Surprise surprise! I was using Flickr, because that was what I have been using for years now for posting to photography forums, so it was something I was already used to doing.

Well, I guess if not many people have been linking to flickr here, then it isn't going to create too big a hole in all the threads on this forum

 

On 12/30/2018 at 10:46 AM, Geonovast said:

I don't think the issue is really keeping a copy of the picture, but more of having hundreds or thousands of hotlinks, like here on the forum, being broken and the shear near-impossibility fixing the situation.

That is what I'm talking about.  Its about "somewhere to put your images so you can link them in threads here". and Flickr forcing a 1000 image limit on their free users and deleting their oldest photos to bring their photo count to that 1000 limit that will potentially break forum threads that link back to flickr.

I've been trying google photos for hosting my photos posted in photography forums, and have had varying mileage getting it to work properly. I might have a look at imgur. 

Edited December 31, 2018 by TanDeeJay

[Ozymandias_the_Goat]

On 12/29/2018 at 10:17 AM, LordFerret said:

I don't rely on the cloud or any online service for storage of my data, pictures or otherwise.  None of you should either.

True. It certainly might be convenient, but everything that I put on cloud storage sites is primarily stuff for I would like to access from computer I don’t own, like college papers via google suite or something like that. 

On a side note, what becomes of the pictures that we upload to the forum via imgur? I don’t have an account, so are the pictures simply anonymously stored on their server, or are they simply deleted (from the public, at least)?

Edited January 2, 2019 by Ozymandias_the_Goat

[XB-70A]

It was a bitter information to read a couple of months ago. But this is not so much a surprise when you know the constant instability of Flickr, one day it's a wonder, then the next day it's a hell, etc.

However, it still has the advantage of hosting photos in original quality (and with the configurations of the camera available), while imgur is good for hosting images against the quality (and also to ruin albums' rearrangement from time to time). Ironically, this choice on the part of Flickr may cost them a lot, or maybe not.

One thing is certain though: of all the artistic sectors, photography is potentially the one with the highest number of insulting and arrogant "artists", and this decision of Flickr can only make them happy. Just reading the comments on DPReview gives a good overview of the atmosphere in this community, and this last decision of Flickr could potentially end up making it an umpteenth bastion of macro-oligarchs.

[Harry Rhodan]

15 hours ago, Ozymandias_the_Goat said:

I don’t have an account, so are the pictures simply anonymously stored on their server, or are they simply deleted (from the public, at least)?

They'll stay until the owners of imgur decide that they burned enough of their money and switch to a paid subsciption model that'll drive off 90% of their user base like so many image hosting sites did before.