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Flickr: Let’s be candid
- artwr 8y agoWhere have the promise of unlimited storage for free gone? I guess only Facebook offers you to store as many pictures as you will throw at it. But retrieval might not be easy. Snark aside, I am not sure they can be blamed for trying to survive. After all those costs add up, and without a profitable ads business behind, it's unclear how Flickr could survive otherwise. Are there any other popular businesses which currently offers a significant amount of media storage in a free account?
- rococode 8y agoHere's the blog post on this: https://blog.flickr.net/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-accounts-1000-photos/ https://blog.flickr.net/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-acco... At first glance it seemed like a way to bring in more money, but the points they bring up actually seem fairly reasonable. The rough tl;dr is: 1. Giving a free terabyte to every user brought in lower-quality content as people came just for free storage, hurting Flickr's mission of being a site for quality content by photographers / artists 2. Subscriptions help them make money from the product instead of the users (I don't really buy this one, they don't have any reason to stop selling user data just because of this change) 3. They want to remind people that file storage costs them a fair chunk of money to keep running, and it's not something that's magically free