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I didn't see any mention of deleting photos that were over the limit. Hopefully they do what Flickr used to do, which is make only the last 1000 photos publicly

I didn't see any mention of deleting photos that were over the limit. Hopefully they do what Flickr used to do, which is make only the last 1000 photos publicly visible.

Skye 8y ago
It says that they will be "actively deleted", which doesn't sound like they're going to be hidden. EDIT: correction, it says they'll first be hidden for about a month, then they will be "actively deleted".
- jrochkind1 8y ago
  It doesn't say anything about hiding photos, that I can find? It does say that if you were over 1000, you have a month where you can't upload any additional photos, but before they start deleting photos.
  - Skye 8y ago
    Huh... Maybe I misread, either way, its a similar sort of concept, and still ends with deletion.
xtreak29 8y ago
https://www.flickr.com/lookingahead/ https://www.flickr.com/lookingahead/ > Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download content over the limit. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content actively deleted -- starting from oldest to newest date uploaded -- to meet the new limit.
afterburner 8y ago
"Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download content over the limit. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content actively deleted -- starting from oldest to newest date uploaded -- to meet the new limit." From the home page.
- Gustomaximus 8y ago
  What I find amazing is how quickly they are doing it. You'd think they would have 12 months type thing after the 'no upload' before they delete to maintain good will. What if someone is ill or travelling. Seems there will be a bunch of people who lose photos before they realise.
  - sigi45 8y ago
    They waited quite long. 1tb is not nothing and I have backuped to Flickr for that reason but I'm not doing anything there Yahoo might have been able to afford it. Otherwise pro user still paying for it. Everyone else didn't. Why should they care what people think of them who didn't pay anyway?
    - Skye 8y ago
      Well... It would have been nice if they warned people earlier because it is quite a big thing to happen. A possible reason why someone running a website should care about keeping stuff up is to avoid link rot, to me it feels like part of bejng a good Internet citizen is to ensure that a change to your website doesn't break other websites or links where possible and reasonable. (if people want stuff removed, then that's fine though). However, it might be that it's too expensive to even just keep stuff up, so fair enough, but if that is the case, I feel more warning would have helped a bit here.

I didn't see any mention of deleting photos that were over the limit. Hopefully they do what Flickr used to do, which is make only the last 1000 photos publicly visible.

Skye 8y ago

It says that they will be "actively deleted", which doesn't sound like they're going to be hidden. EDIT: correction, it says they'll first be hidden for about a month, then they will be "actively deleted".

jrochkind1 8y ago
It doesn't say anything about hiding photos, that I can find? It does say that if you were over 1000, you have a month where you can't upload any additional photos, but before they start deleting photos.
- Skye 8y ago
  Huh... Maybe I misread, either way, its a similar sort of concept, and still ends with deletion.

xtreak29 8y ago

https://www.flickr.com/lookingahead/ https://www.flickr.com/lookingahead/ > Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download content over the limit. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content actively deleted -- starting from oldest to newest date uploaded -- to meet the new limit.

afterburner 8y ago

"Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download content over the limit. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content actively deleted -- starting from oldest to newest date uploaded -- to meet the new limit." From the home page.

Gustomaximus 8y ago
What I find amazing is how quickly they are doing it. You'd think they would have 12 months type thing after the 'no upload' before they delete to maintain good will. What if someone is ill or travelling. Seems there will be a bunch of people who lose photos before they realise.
- sigi45 8y ago
  They waited quite long. 1tb is not nothing and I have backuped to Flickr for that reason but I'm not doing anything there Yahoo might have been able to afford it. Otherwise pro user still paying for it. Everyone else didn't. Why should they care what people think of them who didn't pay anyway?
  - Skye 8y ago
    Well... It would have been nice if they warned people earlier because it is quite a big thing to happen. A possible reason why someone running a website should care about keeping stuff up is to avoid link rot, to me it feels like part of bejng a good Internet citizen is to ensure that a change to your website doesn't break other websites or links where possible and reasonable. (if people want stuff removed, then that's fine though). However, it might be that it's too expensive to even just keep stuff up, so fair enough, but if that is the case, I feel more warning would have helped a bit here.