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I used to use Flickr, but iCloud storage is cheaper and more convenient.
by tjr225 5y ago
I used to use Flickr, but iCloud storage is cheaper and more convenient.
- leephillips 5y agoDo you need to be an Apple citizen?
- colecut 5y agoGoogle photos is also pretty cheap and convenient.
- leephillips 5y agoGoogle storage is 2 TB for $100/yr. Flickr is unlimited for $72/yr.
- hiptobecubic 5y agoIMO they serve very different purposes. Google Photos has very good search and collaborative album building. The result is that you can take random photos of your life and still get value out of it later. It's not archival quality, but it's extremely accessible, which makes up for it, imo.
- marwis 5y agoWith Google Photos you can't download uncompressed/original files and exif location tags are always stripped.
- aix1 5y agoThis was surprising, so I just downloaded one of my photos from Google Photos[*] as a test. The downloaded JPEG absolutely has EXIF location metadata. [*] by pressing Shift+D
- leephillips 5y agoYikes. So it’s just, what—some kind of sharing site? That makes it useless for backup.
- aix1 5y agoI don't believe the claim about EXIF location data is accurate -- please see my comment above.
- leephillips 5y agoThat’s good, but the part about losing access to the original files, if true, is a deal-breaker.
- marwis 5y agoIn theory you can download them all via Takeout but that tends to stop working for huge image libraries. Seems like the only way might be via web scraping.
- aix1 5y agoI'm not certain that's true either (if "Original Quality" is turned on[1]) but haven't tested it. That said, I personally only use Google Photos as a sharing site and do archiving offline. [1] https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791 https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791
- marwis 5y agoSorry, I should've mentioned this problem applies to images downloaded via API
- myko 5y ago> uncompressed/original files Even with the paid plan? I'm pretty sure I selected an "originals" option in Google Photos - do they not actually use the originals?
- dghlsakjg 5y agoI have iCloud storage hooked up to my pc for file syncing, so no
- leephillips 5y agoThe iCloud 2TB plan is $120/yr in the US. Flickr is unlimited for $72/yr. Does iCloud have an API for interacting with your images?
- KarlKemp 5y agoThere's PhotoKit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/photokit https://developer.apple.com/documentation/photokit It's somewhat different than the Flickr API, so it's hard to compare. The Flickr API is great in that it gives you access to everything a user can do on the site. It's really sad that this approach has mostly died (Instagram doesn't have any API, does it?) PhotoKit is impressive in its own way, allowing third-party apps to hook into library management and destruction-free editing. It doesn't give you much control of the synchronization with iCloud. Or, from a different perspective, the sync happens transparently in the background and doesn't need handholding.
- yesimahuman 5y agoPersonally, I don’t think Flickr is best used as an image dump or photo backup service, so it’s not apples to apples. Curating your best photos and sharing those with others as well as engaging on their best photos is where Flickr shines (i.e. the community aspect)