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Would be a bit of a "hostage" situation, without really solving their storage problem. If an owner never decides to pay, for how long would they store the hidde

• SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  Indeed. They're not doing this to extort money out of people, they're doing it to cut down their storage costs. Archiving doesn't make any sense at all.
  • mc32 8y ago
    It seems that way, but to me it would be better than the hard approach of iretrievably deleting your stuff. It’s not hostage in any case, they’re not threatening deletion, it’s more like DoS. I prefer that so that if i want to, I can pay, but if I don’t i still have an archive of my items to download for myself—it’s just others won’t see your items.
  • mikepurvis 8y ago
    Eh, bulk offline storage is so cheap it's practically free, especially when you can immediately delete all the different cached thumbnails and other intermediate sizes from your CDN. As long as it's "become a paying customer and restore your archive within 24 hours", it would work out fine.
    • w0m 8y ago
      This. Cold/Frozen storage is incredibly cheap if properly setup.