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Agreed. Flickr is $25 for unlimited storage. That's much better than S3 AFAIK. Especially in this day and age when I go out with my DSLR and come back with 4gig

Agreed. Flickr is $25 for unlimited storage. That's much better than S3 AFAIK. Especially in this day and age when I go out with my DSLR and come back with 4gig of new images.

bad_user 14y ago
It may say unlimited, but only a fool would believe it. How many photos do you have uploaded anyway? Also, good luck dowloading your whole photo collection from Flickr.
- ceejayoz 14y ago
  > Also, good luck dowloading your whole photo collection from Flickr. I periodically fire up an EC2 instance and do just that via the API. > It may say unlimited, but only a fool would believe it. How many photos do you have uploaded anyway? Unlike your average "unlimited" shared web hosting, I've yet to hear of a single person booted off Flickr for uploading too much (legit) stuff. Storage is cheap, and the folks paying $25 to upload a photo a month likely subsidize the really heavy users a little.
  - fakeer 14y ago
    >>I periodically fire up an EC2 instance That was point oc put forward: A normal human being won't bother setting up an S3 account.
    - pretoriusB 14y ago
      No, but for them there are tons of exporter apps for Flickr they can run from THEIR computer.
      - jmathai 14y ago
        In theory, yes. But there are a plentiful of Flickr users who grudgingly renew their Flickr account because they don't see any alternatives that includes porting their photos. The solutions exist. But no one knows about them. I believe this is a big problem and we're baking data portability right into the service. If Flickr had a big button that said, export all of your photos then I imagine people would. And by export I don't mean download zip file. I mean move where your photos are stored without losing the benefits of having them "up in the cloud".
- buza 14y ago
  Here's one datapoint: I have 652,082 images in my account, and have downloaded my entire library a number of times using different 3rd party utilities. Haven't ever had an issue.
  - FireBeyond 14y ago
    Even as someone who can shoot 1,000 shots in a day for a wedding easily... mind sharing, what/how you have over half a million shots of?
    - buza 14y ago
      Most of them are screenshots uploaded via a script for an academic project.

Agreed. Flickr is $25 for unlimited storage. That's much better than S3 AFAIK. Especially in this day and age when I go out with my DSLR and come back with 4gig of new images.

bad_user 14y ago

It may say unlimited, but only a fool would believe it. How many photos do you have uploaded anyway? Also, good luck dowloading your whole photo collection from Flickr.

ceejayoz 14y ago
> Also, good luck dowloading your whole photo collection from Flickr. I periodically fire up an EC2 instance and do just that via the API. > It may say unlimited, but only a fool would believe it. How many photos do you have uploaded anyway? Unlike your average "unlimited" shared web hosting, I've yet to hear of a single person booted off Flickr for uploading too much (legit) stuff. Storage is cheap, and the folks paying $25 to upload a photo a month likely subsidize the really heavy users a little.
- fakeer 14y ago
  >>I periodically fire up an EC2 instance That was point oc put forward: A normal human being won't bother setting up an S3 account.
  - pretoriusB 14y ago
    No, but for them there are tons of exporter apps for Flickr they can run from THEIR computer.
    - jmathai 14y ago
      In theory, yes. But there are a plentiful of Flickr users who grudgingly renew their Flickr account because they don't see any alternatives that includes porting their photos. The solutions exist. But no one knows about them. I believe this is a big problem and we're baking data portability right into the service. If Flickr had a big button that said, export all of your photos then I imagine people would. And by export I don't mean download zip file. I mean move where your photos are stored without losing the benefits of having them "up in the cloud".
buza 14y ago
Here's one datapoint: I have 652,082 images in my account, and have downloaded my entire library a number of times using different 3rd party utilities. Haven't ever had an issue.
- FireBeyond 14y ago
  Even as someone who can shoot 1,000 shots in a day for a wedding easily... mind sharing, what/how you have over half a million shots of?
  - buza 14y ago
    Most of them are screenshots uploaded via a script for an academic project.