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Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space

• andybak 13y ago
  How do I upload - or more to the point - sync my local folders with Flickr? Is a web-based uploader really the only official current option?
• limpangel 13y ago
  Just when I was about to delete my Yahoo account ... this comes up on HN. I think I'll wait a while longer. :)
• pax 13y ago
  Won't they lose a lot of paid subscribers? I currently have a Pro account but 1Tb will be plentiful so I'm not planning to renew my subscription
• bad_user 13y ago
  I'm a Pro subscriber and I applaud them for starting to improve Flickr. However, $49.99 a year just for the privilege of getting no ads? Compared to the $25 people pay for Pro accounts, that's way overblown. And yes, compared to cloud storage, given 1 TB of storage, this is rather cheap. However, considering that this storage can only be used for photos and videos and that most of these photos and videos are meant to be public, at least within your circle of friends, which drives more traffic to Flickr, well I consider $50 per year to be way too much. While I am able to keep my subscription for now, I always thought that Flickr is sustainable because they value their Pro users and this move makes me think they don't.
  • technoslut 13y ago
    I don't think the price is unreasonable. This is the going rate that other sites like SmugMug offer. While most offer unlimited storage, they lack the community aspect of Flickr. I look at it as supporting a site you love to use while opting out of ads and possibly ad tracking as well.
• cjdavis 13y ago
  The Android app STILL does not provide automatic upload. That is the only thing I want or need from the Android app - I backup images I take on my phone, and make public the few that I want to share. So now I use Google+. But I have years of photos on Flickr, so I'd still like to switch back. I really don't understand why it's missing.
  • cjdavis 13y ago
    Ok, looks like I have an OSS solution with code on Github: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rafali.flickruploader https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rafali.fli...
• tsbardella 13y ago
  I just spent 17 frustrating minutes trying to get it set up on my android phone. I had to remove flickr from facebook then the twitter page went white. .. I dont care enough really.
• rusbra 13y ago
  Well then I guess I'll be using Flickr...
• Meai 13y ago
  Sounds like bad news for these guys: http://pics.io/ http://pics.io/ For some reason I'm following their progress for over a month already. Sneaky, their progress bar has gone backwards one time. As if nobody would notice! I wish them all the best though.
• alifaizan 13y ago
  but still like every other Big Website they have privacy issues.!! http://www.bestvpnservice.com/blog/google-internet-privacy-issue-with-europe/ http://www.bestvpnservice.com/blog/google-internet-privacy-i...
• Eduardo3rd 13y ago
  "So we’re also giving our Flickr users one terabyte of space — for free." This is incredible. I remember being blown away with the 1 GB of storage I got with my gmail account back in 2005. I couldn't even fathom needing a terabyte back then. What a fun time to be alive.
  • manacit 13y ago
    Keep in mind as a non-pro user you can only upload 300MB a month: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ 277 years (or 7,242 fortnights) later, and you can finally use all of your space. Edit: It appears they have removed the limit, disregard.
    • nrivadeneira 13y ago
      That limit seems to have been removed. In fact, you can upload 200mb for a single photo (with no mention of upload rate limits).
    • fletchowns 13y ago
      I think they updated the limits page, I don't see any mention of 300MB per month on there.
  • vidarh 13y ago
    I worked at Yahoo at that time, and what I remember was the sheer panic from the Mail team trying to figure out how to respond...
• tnuc 13y ago
  Now I can access my high res photos again. I don't know if I can trust them after the shit they pulled. When I signed up : "You will never lose access to your high res photos". A few years ago : "Sign up for pro if you want access to high res photos". Is this a sign that Yahoo isn't going to keep fucking things up?
  • adventured 13y ago
    Mayer is a pro. She understands user experience. And Yahoo has a solid pile of cash, so they can clearly afford to spend some of it wooing users and repairing their image. Whether Yahoo can ultimately be rehabilitated remains to be seen regardless.
• sbashyal 13y ago
  Marissa is nearing her 1 year anniversary as Yahoo CEO and it seems that she is turning the company around.
  • calinet6 13y ago
    Props to her, but to be fair, it's not hard to say "Hey look, a wall!" and go the other direction.
    • grinich 13y ago
      It's a lot harder than she makes it look.
      • calinet6 13y ago
        Yeah, you're right, it might be easy to turn around a startup for example, but she's piloting the Titanic with a hull made of mesh. It's impressive.
    • sbashyal 13y ago
      Its not just the change in business direction. Look at Yahoo's stock chart for the past year: http://money.cnn.com/quote/chart/chart.html?symb=YHOO http://money.cnn.com/quote/chart/chart.html?symb=YHOO
      • calinet6 13y ago
        One would certainly hope that reflects the business direction. Ideally it always would...
    • alanthonyc 13y ago
      I can name a few former Yahoo CEOs who would beg to differ.
  • dkrich 13y ago
    The stock price is up, I'll give you that, but in terms of actual user/profit/revenue growth what are the numbers to suggest that she is turning the company around? Flashy product acquisitions and page redesigns a turnaround o not make. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just interested in seeing the hard numbers.
• xpose2000 13y ago
  Well done with the timing of all of these announcements. Flickr is finally a modern web app.
• aaronpk 13y ago
  I thought Flickr never charged for disk space... the whole premise was you could store an unlimited number of photos, they'd just make you upgrade to a "pro" account if you wanted to upload new photos beyond a limit or get photos out. How is "1TB free space" a benefit now?
  • danso 13y ago
    Without pro, you could only access your last 200 photos. So unless your photos were of the 100MB+ quality, you would not be able to access most of your previous photos in Flickr.
• TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
  That photostream looks lovely.
• darxius 13y ago
  1TB free space eh.... I wonder if there are any strings attached.
• dhawalhs 13y ago
  From the FAQ [1]: What’s the difference between a Free, Ad Free, and Doublr account? There are three kinds of accounts to choose from at Flickr, and all of them are awesome in their own way. Free: 1 Terabyte of photo and video storage Upload photos of up to 200MB per photo Upload 1080p HD videos of up to 1GB each Video playback of up to 3 minutes each Upload and download in full original quality Ad Free: $49.99 per year All the benefits of a free account No ads in your browsing experience Doublr: $499.99 per year 2 Terabytes of photo and video space All the benefits of a free account Links: [1] http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/#150470666 http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/#150470666
• quarterto 13y ago
  This is fantastic. And it's interesting to see the influences from Facebook Timeline in the design.
• joshmn 13y ago
  Can someone please explain to me how on each they're able to do this? They're valuing each of their users at the cost of 1TB (plus bandwidth, electricity, etc.) Like in the hosting industry, "unlimited space" means "fuck you, don't host shit here other than files that serve your content."
  • minimaxir 13y ago
    Statistics, most likely. If the average Flickr user only uses 10GB, for example, then it doesn't matter what the upper bound is aside for the 1% of power users.
• waterlesscloud 13y ago
  Points for where she announced it. Guess that other announcement wasn't a one time gimmick.
  • pdknsk 13y ago
    Yahoo! actually moved its official blog to Tumblr. http://yodel.yahoo.com/blogs/general/we-re-moving--120325712.html http://yodel.yahoo.com/blogs/general/we-re-moving--120325712...
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• aaronbrethorst 13y ago
  Ok, great. The iPad experience has gone from mediocre to terrible. Hit targets are too small, figuring out how to click through to detail pages is non obvious, and it just feels slow as molasses on my 3rd gen iPad.
• danso 13y ago
  Amusingly, in the Yahoo/Tumblr acquisition thread, I complained about how little Yahoo has improved on Flickr...but otherwise, I was a happy paying customer. Currently, I pay $25 for a year's worth of unlimited photo storage and being ad-free. With this new plan, I have to pay twice as much for what I have now...because even as a 3+ year (almost 4 now) member, I haven't uploaded enough to fill a terabyte. Kind of a bummer, though allowing more than 200 photos (which was the Free offering until now) is absolutely critical for Flickr to be a success. edit: one of the things I complained about was how the horizontal-masonry that was implemented months (if not a year) ago had been limited to just parts of the site...and how the default logged in userpage was dull and photoless...with the new redesign, both of these complaints are wiped out. Nicely done Yahoo, I will complain more on HN in the future. edit2: Unless I'm missing something obvious, I don't see a "let me see the old version for now" button...Which I think underscores my opinion of how outdated the old site design was.
  • adventured 13y ago
    From what I'm reading, existing Pro users will be grandfathered and have the ability to continue with their existing subscription.
    • skkdkk 13y ago
      I am a pro user, but I don't have a recurring subscription, I just rebuy it every 2 years, now I'm going to have to pay double for no ads, seems like I got screwed most of all.
      • fakeer 13y ago
        If ads are good I actually love looking at them. Occasionally I click too and if they actually catch my fancy, I buy. But this (the last part) is extremely rare.
      • porsupah 13y ago
        Help is at hand: http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633549071436/ http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633549071436/ "But we are working on a plan to let non-recurring Pro member sign up for recurring Pro subscription. We will post more details when they become available."
• teraflop 13y ago
  So far, the response from Flickr power users looks overwhelmingly negative: http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633547442506/ http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633547442506/
  • waterlesscloud 13y ago
    Most of that looks like the usual user complaining because an interface changed.
    • mattebb 13y ago
      There is a component of that, but it's also dangerous to dismiss any negative feedback that way too. Pro user since ~2005 here. I don't mind change in general, but I think the change they made here is definitely for the worse. Art needs space to breathe, and what they've done here is the equivalent of a photographic gallery plastering all the exhibited images in a wall-to-wall collage. That sort of in-your-face layout may work for something like Facebook or Instagram, but not for something that is (was) meant to be for more serious photography.
    • NelsonMinar 13y ago
      Why wasn't I consulted?! http://www.ftrain.com/SiteLaunch.html http://www.ftrain.com/SiteLaunch.html
    • toomuchtodo 13y ago
      If power users = pro users, and pro users = paid users, yeah, you should take notice with the people left generating revenue. Disclaimer: Flickr Pro user since 2005. More than $25/year? Off to Dropbox.
  • matheusalmeida 13y ago
    I'm not sure I would consider them power users but it's somehow expected because everyone knows how people can be adverse to change... (It's still fresh in my mind when everyone complained about the new Gmail UI or even G+...).
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• getdavidhiggins 13y ago
  Here's my Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/getdavidhiggins/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/getdavidhiggins/ I disagree with people claiming Flickr is just for pictures of Daffodils and Sunsets. I just dump memes and humorous pics there.
  • britta 13y ago
    Flickr's Community Guidelines say that you're supposed to upload your own work (http://www.flickr.com/help/guidelines/ http://www.flickr.com/help/guidelines/): > Don’t upload anything that isn't yours. This includes other people's photos, video, and/or stuff you've copied or collected from around the Internet. Accounts that consist primarily of such collections may be deleted at any time.
• film42 13y ago
  I'm down right angry. I loved the old flickr interface. It was simple and usable. Now it looks like a less functional google+. Flickr's job is NOT to be a fancy photo viewer, it's supposed to be a photo organizer. Looks like yahoo just screwed up the last good thing they had. This will be my last year with this service (I've been a member since 2004 and have had a pro account for several years now).
  • rhizome 13y ago
    What did you think two years ago when the old interface you lament was new?
    • film42 13y ago
      It stayed with the overall color scheme and felt like a progressive update. This is far more intense and dramatic.
  • onli 13y ago
    Give it time. That is the archetypical reaction of a user being confronted by change (angry is else hard to explain). Flickr's job isn't that easy to be defined. It serves many purposes: Being able to upload and store images there, to organize them, but also to view them of course. Having a new UI putting the images first seems quite reasonable given that definition of flickr. Besides, the old interface was neither simple nor useable if one wasn't used to it. No one outside of Flickr had time yet to find out whether the new Interface works. More general remark: We had a good impression what it was likde for the Flickr-Team inside Yahoo. No ressources, no ability to change or improve the service, blocked by bureaucracy and unwilling management. That they are able now to deliver such an upgrade is downright impressive. 1 TB alone is massive and would never have been possible with the old situation, given the description. There really is change in that place.
    • CrLf 13y ago
      "Give it time." Flickr was in need of a facelift, but not a complete overhaul. This just seems to me like a rehash of Delicious (the difference being that Flickr is still a part of Yahoo): redesign the whole thing to make it more "social" and "hip" and lose what made it a great service in the process. Delicious is still awful compared to what it was even under Yahoo's governance and I don't think Flickr is going to recover from this either. And what's this about dropping their Pro accounts in favor of some 1TB free space nonsense? Yeah, that's going to work...
• matheusalmeida 13y ago
  This is great news for people like me that continue to use Flickr after a very long time... Unfortunately the new UI reminds me a lot 500px which I think offers, at the moment, a much better community and user experience if one is really a photography enthusiast. Anyhow hats off to Yahoo for trying to make things right after several years of stagnation. I'm aware the Flickr team have lost some valuable members and that probably affected future plans but that's a different story.
• ilaksh 13y ago
  How can they give away 1TB of space for free? Because the cheapest 1TB drive I saw was $67. Unless.. they assume that only a very small percentage of people will use it. So if on average, everyone still only uses about 1GB of space, then a 500gb you can get for $45. $45/500 = .09 so about 10 cents per person. With 25 million users that is about a $2.5 million investment. If the average user uses 10GB then that is $1.00 per person though. With 25 million users that is about a $25 million investment.
  • manacit 13y ago
    Mostly because you can only upload 300MB per month in images: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ It'd take you 277 years to actually hit that TB with a free plan. To even use a tenth, it would take 27 years. Edit: It appears they have removed the limit, disregard.
    • rje 13y ago
      I don't see the 300MB limit listed anywhere on that page. Maybe they hadn't finished the site rollout?
      • manacit 13y ago
        It looks like they did, indeed, remove it just as I was posting, good for Yahoo!
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  • nknighthb 13y ago
    Virtually no one will use it, and handful that use any nontrivial portion of it will draw eyeballs to the site, delivering ad revenue.
  • reportingsjr 13y ago
    I, as a regular consumer, just got a 2TB hard drive for $90. That means the space was $45/GB compared to your $67/GB. When you buy enough hard drives to fill a data center I am sure you get better prices too! As other commenters have said, I doubt most people will use a fraction of this space.
• 0x0 13y ago
  1TB isn't that impressive when you have to deal with a 300MB/month upload rate limit: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ It'd take 291 years to fill up the 1TB allowance: https://www.google.com/search?q=1TB+%2F+(300+MB%2Fmonth) https://www.google.com/search?q=1TB+%2F+(300+MB%2Fmonth) (Also looks like there's a missing </ul> on that limits page, there.) Edit: Looks like the page is being edited right this moment - the page used to list the 300MB/month limit but was also mentioning the new account types, at the same time. Guess they forgot to review all the text
  • ivix 13y ago
    For most normal users taking a normal amount of photos, that's absolutely fine.
  • manacit 13y ago
    I'm a little shocked honestly - they might as well offer "unlimited" storage if I can only upload 3.6GB per year in images. This makes the entire 1 TB craze seem like a giant farce. Edit: It appears they have removed the limit, disregard.
    • wlesieutre 13y ago
      I think it's intended to distract you from the actual limit. If they came out and said "Unlimited storage" everyone's first reaction would be "What's the catch?"
  • cscheid 13y ago
    Huh. Flickr Pro is gone, and there's no way to lift this 300MB/mo limit? Looks like Dropbox might have found themselves a new paying customer.
    • ttf 13y ago
      When I log in, I see: "Dear [name], as a Pro member continue to enjoy the benefits of unlimited space, an ad free experience and stats." "Smile [username]. Flickr gives you one free terabyte of space. Share your photos in full resolution. See what's new Pro members, your subscription remains the same." It seems Pro is still here.
• artursapek 13y ago
  I think Yahoo is going to need a big rebranding. The new Flickr actually looks pretty fresh.
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  • martinml 13y ago
    That just disappeared, right now: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/
  • zrail 13y ago
    This isn't true. Those limits are all removed http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/
    • abronte 13y ago
      I think they have some more work to do, I just hit a limit... http://i.imgur.com/SQRvzWw.png http://i.imgur.com/SQRvzWw.png
      • Zarel 13y ago
        Yeah, as far as I can tell they removed the 300 MB limit from the limits page less than an hour ago; I'm sure they're still cleaning up the old limits as we speak.
• noloqy 13y ago
  Getting Marissa Mayer is the best thing that happened to Yahoo. Regardless of some of the mistakes that may have been made (thinking of one acquisition in particular), she surely is putting the company back on the map. Personally I still rarely use Yahoo; I only visit Yahoo finance once in a while, but I'm liking what I see. Naturally the 1 TB storage is a trick. I can't imagine more than a handful of hardcore users filling up that space, but the feeling of not having to worry about deleting old files significantly contributes to a great user experience.
• Y0YO 13y ago
  R.I.P. 500px.
• myth_drannon 13y ago
  "Eligible Pro members have the option to switch to a Free account until 8/20/2013" I paid for Pro until 07/2014 I hope they don't switch me to Free a year early !
  • greghinch 13y ago
    If you do, they give you a pro-rated refund.
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• luisivan 13y ago
  Did nobody notice that the Samsung Galaxy S4 that they are using for the post has both physical and software keys? Pretty weird
• getdavidhiggins 13y ago
  What? No refund for those with a Pro account? Why do tech companies not want to take my money these days? The concept of 'free' on the Internet is changing. Users will now happily pay because they don't want another service dying because of no sustainable income. Even if Yahoo can sustain themselves with their exabyte-era data-centers. I don't care. I just want a pro / premium option, and I want one soon.
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• arindone 13y ago
  Dude -- I think Yahoo is cool again in my book. 1TB of pictures free combined with the blogging platform that is Tumblr is pretty potent. Unlike many haters out on the HN forums these days I'm actually really excited to see what comes of this.
• philsnow 13y ago
  The default privacy permissions are a bit loose for my taste, but I'm not big into sharing photos except with my direct family. Can anybody compare them with facebook's or picasa / google+'s default privacy settings ? Edit: I've made a bunch of comments as replies to this one. My conclusion is that New Flickr's privacy-friendliness is just barely above Facebook's. However, they haven't yet demonstrated _continuing_ willingness (as Facebook has) to default to lower-privacy options as they iterate. If they notice that I've locked down most of my privacy / sharing settings and then take an educated guess at what I want the default to be when they launch a new feature with a privacy slider ("we've set this to 'only family' for you based off your choices for settings X, Y, and Z."), that would be sweet.
  • philsnow 13y ago
    I was concerned for a moment just now because it looked like one particular setting wasn't sticking: "Hide me from site-wide searches on flickr.com and on 3rd party sites that use the API?" I checked the box and hit "save", but when I went back and looked, it wasn't checked. I tried again and it worked. I wonder if they're using one or more caching layers and not being careful about fetching important bits from the authoritative layer.
  • philsnow 13y ago
    Also, lots of the settings are inconsistent: the more-conservative setting is variously "yes" or "no". I think it's widely-known that structuring your questionnaire this way leads to confusion. One of the settings (geo preferences / "who can see where your photos were taken?") had a weird state to begin with, "no preference set". This is the only one that I saw that had no default. What would have the geo privacy been for photos that I uploaded without setting this?
  • philsnow 13y ago
    It looks like the android app uses a custom browser to render the third-party login pages, putting them in a position to trivially grab your password. I can't think of a reason to have done this. Sure, I would have liked for the "log in with Google" button to pop up the system account chooser, but at the very least, just fire off an intent and let the user's browser of choice take care of it.
• mratzloff 13y ago
  I think the 300 MB upload limit from before was removed. I can only find that in references to Free vs. Pro documentation. Also, it looks like Pro accounts will still be available to existing Pro subscribers... for the time being, at least. From the FAQ: > I’ve heard that Flickr Pro is no longer being offered. How does that affect me? > Starting on 5/20/2013, we will no longer be offering new Flickr Pro subscriptions. After that point, the following things will happen: > Recurring Pro users currently have the ability to renew. > Eligible Pro members have the option to switch to a Free account until 8/20/2013. > The “Gift of Pro” will no longer be available for purchase. > Pro users will no longer appear with a “Pro” badge beside their name or buddy icon. So what happens after 8/20/2013? Anyway, then there's this: > What happens if my Pro Account expires? > If your Pro account expires, don't panic! None of your photos or videos have been deleted! > This means instead of enjoying the super-duper capacity of your Pro account, you're now subject to the limits of a free account. If you upgrade again, all of your photos will be waiting for you. > Any of your sets that disappeared will magically reappear when you renew or upgrade. OK, so it sounds like they'll give existing Pro subscribers the opportunity to renew.
• sdoowpilihp 13y ago
  Flickr's UI change is definitely polarizing, mainly due to the fact that is so sudden and all encompassing. Considering what Yahoo has to prove in the coming months and years, it's probably a good move on their part, mainly because after so much stagnation with this product, any movement is good movement. If the reaction to the UI is overwhelmingly negative, they can course correct. Right now though, they need to show movement of any kind, and they chose to do it in one of the most visual ways possible. I look forward to seeing if this change proves to be more than skin deep.
• robotmay 13y ago
  This is pretty interesting to me as I've been spending the last month preparing my soon-to-be startup; (hopefully) a competitor to Flickr/500px: https://photographer.io https://photographer.io Obviously I can't compete with that free space which they're giving out. Instead I'm going to stick to a lesser free plan and a sensible subscription price, and hope that people realise that I actually aim to make a profitable business out of it and stick around for a good long while. If anyone's interested I'd be grateful for any/all feedback, or any questions about what Photographer.io can offer over Flickr. Obviously it's still in beta, but I figure I should probably let people know that it exists. EDIT: If you tried to sign up, I apologise if it was broken. I pushed a fix for something else a few hours ago and managed to break the sign up form (clearly it needs better testing). The patch is going up now, and you should be able to sign up again shortly.
  • joeshaw 13y ago
    Do you have an API? I work on a photo aggregation and backup service called Woven (http://woventheapp.com http://woventheapp.com) and it'd be nice to hook it up.
  • jmathai 13y ago
    I'm 2 years into a photo service and disk space has never been the determining cost factor. Space is only used to get users to upgrade to a paying account. I don't downplay the importance of that though, it's critical to figure out how you're going to make money today and not once you have a few million users. In Yahoo!'s case it's about getting more engagement and users.
    • robotmay 13y ago
      I'm hoping to offer a bunch of features other than unlimited photo uploads to entice users into subscriptions. More features, such as being able to share private collections (albums/sets) with others, or increased control over what they see on the site. I'm looking to launch it proper in the next couple of weeks once I have the TOS finalised and the company set up. And I'm always open to any suggestions users have for features they'd like to see :)
• llgrrl_ 13y ago
  Did anyone notice that the first link on ... "Since 2005, Flickr has become synonymous with inspiring imagery." ... was actually linking to flick.com, but not flickr.com? Edit: In fact the second link also links to flick.com.
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• kaewka_thanawat 13y ago
  http://dearmarissamayer.com http://dearmarissamayer.com
• jckt 13y ago
  I remember a lot of people noting that facebook's UI evolution toward a focus on images rather than text is theoretically nice. That is, it's presented very well whenever the images are nice, but on facebook that's rarely the case--a quick look through my homefeed, it's either blurry party shots/selfies or obnoxiously filtered Instagram pictures. Flickr seems to have made the same evolution, and in that respect its UI changes are hardly original ideas. Yet it's almost a perfect fit -- where else on the Internet will you find more professionally-taken pictures?
  • porsupah 13y ago
    > where else on the Internet will you find more professionally-taken pictures? The main venue which comes to mind is 500px. However, with its leanings toward a more professional level comes a lack of the fun, informal atmosphere of Flickr. I maintain a presence on both, for now, and thoroughly enjoy Flickr - but, I'll have to keep an eye on what happens there hereon. As they say, the headlines giveth, the fine print taketh away. =:/
• meerita 13y ago
  That UI is a mix of the old with new, and the website looks pretty ugly. I wont waste too much time criticism, to be honest, for a company that acquires companies for more than a billon this is a sad development and design.
• mark_l_watson 13y ago
  A nice looking upgrade. That said, a few months ago I decided to use Dropbox for just about everything, and upped my storage plan. The new Dropbox photo album service and android download photos as soon as I am on wifi service is great. I still keep photos on Flickr and G+ photos, but I consider those to be backups.
• dkrich 13y ago
  This is great for the so-called "photo-enthusiasts." I'll probably sign up on that basis. But I'm not sure I understand the mobile play. Most of my mobile photos are horrid quality and when I take a photo with my phone 100% of the time it is with the intent to share with others, either via SMS or Facebook or Twitter. I would be happy to share on Flickr. There's only one problem. That of course is that none of my friends use Flickr. I think they are putting the cart before the horse in thinking that upping the storage and redesigning the interface is going to increase their user base. That said, kudos for trying something. I think that Yahoo! continues to struggle with a singular product strategy and that is ultimately causing them to hemorrhage billions of dollars chasing ill-conceived product acquisition.
  • hayksaakian 13y ago
    They could work like Google+ which automatically backs up your photos. So everything you share could be safer at flickr vs spread out among 100 services
  • hayksaakian 13y ago
    They could work like Google+ which automatically backs up your photos. So everything you share could be safer at flickr vs spread out among 100 services
  • munificent 13y ago
    > Most of my mobile photos are horrid quality Here's a few photos I've taken with my phone: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8607495076/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8607495076/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8539300849/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8539300849/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8526482251/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8526482251/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8479530691/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8479530691/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8479526973/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobisbob/8479526973/ Phone cameras have gotten a hell of a lot better in the past couple of years.
    • Ecio78 13y ago
      I wish I'd be able to do this kind of photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lonfong/8363181496/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/lonfong/8363181496/ taken from http://www.flickr.com/cameras/samsung/galaxy_s_iii/ http://www.flickr.com/cameras/samsung/galaxy_s_iii/
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• forgotAgain 13y ago
  Nice move Marissa!
• superuser2 13y ago
  I don't think I could ever come close to even 10GB with my residential cable connection. It would take months to upload that much.
  • coldtea 13y ago
    Or you could go to some place with high bandwidth and you know, upload them from there...
    • Zarel 13y ago
      Where would the average person find some place with higher bandwidth than their residential cable connection?
      • coldtea 13y ago
        Any friend/relative with a fiber? Some internet cafe with a mighty connection? And since we're talking about HN people, and not just the average person, some lab/workplace they are familiar with the people and they'd let them do it? I'm not sure if there are, but if not, there should be services with high speed connections that get a HD or USB stick from you in the mail, and let you manage to upload your stuff where you want. IIRC, Amazon does this for uploading stuff to S3.
        • superuser2 13y ago
          There is no residential fiber in Milwaukee. Public places with internet access are pretty much always running it off DSL or cable. Some schools and commercial buildings have fiber, but it's shared among so many people that it's not really much faster. Amazon does offer that service, but it's $80/device + $2.49/hour.
          • coldtea 13y ago
            Well, send it to a friend with fiber somewhere in another state. Seriously, this would be a good way for people with fiber connections to make a buck, set up a "mass upload" service. At some point, it's obvious that the "how can I upload X volume from where I live" doesn't make much sense given one's location. I would not expect high speed access in Alaska, for example. Or in some remote New Mexico area.
• easymovet 13y ago
  enough for a lifetime...as long as it's up.
• w1ntermute 13y ago
  Did they Photoshop the image of the Android app[0]? I don't think a Galaxy S3/S4 would have those three on-screen buttons at the bottom. It looks like they took a screenshot from a Nexus device and then put it on top of the screen in a stock Galaxy S3/S4 image. 0: http://media.tumblr.com/d5fe504880017bde458c113a94094cbc/tumblr_inline_mn47zu9nyK1qz4rgp.jpg http://media.tumblr.com/d5fe504880017bde458c113a94094cbc/tum...
  • hamax 13y ago
    It's probably the new Galaxy S4 Nexus edition. I mean, it's photoshoped, but that's what they were aiming for.
• ggordan 13y ago
  Is anyone else having trouble signing up with a Google account?
• pajju 13y ago
  1 TB is a lot of space for free-accounts, very generous move! So, will they get more traffic now?
• walid 13y ago
  Does anybody find the ad free account attractive? I don't.
• eterm 13y ago
  I commented the other day that I hadn't renewed my sub for the first time in 6 or so years. I'm now VERY annoyed I didn't; I'd have had 2 more years of "pro", and with it the one feature I enjoyed looking at which is my stats page with referrer info etc. That no longer seems to be an option at all.
• bergie 13y ago
  The new UI is certainly prettier, but yet another example of Android done wrong. Weird action bar, forcing portrait on tablets, etc. This was already mentioned with Facebook Home, but it'd be great if UI designers and developers would actually spend some time on their target platforms to learn the UI conventions instead of copying iOS as-is.
• aresant 13y ago
  I've been a paid Flickr user for years and I'm excited about the new UX. BUT PLEASE PLEASE fix the iPhone app which, after their new update earlier this year, no longer lets you upload video!
  • aeturnum 13y ago
    I don't know about iPhone, but they pushed an update to their android app simultaneously with the website launch. I don't do video, but the app added the "video" permission, so my guess is it will be back soon.
• imonkey 13y ago
  I'm alone hate new design? Why? Too much dark colors (especially menu) and frustrated navigation, probably because I have habits about old design, now everything looks too much different. Than next image button (when you'r not zoomed in) looks like it's ajax, but it's not. I loved Flickr for easy to use light design, I don't care about 1TB, too much because I don't want to share so much on the Internet. So new Flick is lost me as a customer.
• marcamillion 13y ago
  Wow....I must say, I never thought I would be able to say this....but I am getting excited about Yahoo again. Marissa Mayer is doing a fabulous job. Putting products first, like she should. Wow....just wow!
• replax 13y ago
  Well, their new Flickr page instantly crashes on Win8 on IE10. Wow!
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• pajju 13y ago
  Yahoo is looking fresh again! I think this a well-thought idea to -- get more social. Also with this move, it might push Google users to consider syncing and sharing their photos to Flickr now. Google gives 5GB for high-resolution, i.e original quality photos, Yahoo is giving 1TB, but think yahoo ads. Any such kind of service is a lock-in ( platform level, so more control) and maybe they integrate tumblr strongly with photos? ( again a deeper lock-in to yahoo only core-products). All this means -- they are back into Internet business. From the past 2 days, there were enormous analysis around Yahoo, its principles were questioned, so did this all reach the board and the top management? :)
  • MikeKusold 13y ago
    This has been upped to a maximum of 15GB when Google combined all their storage into Drive. Your argument still holds though.
    • pajju 13y ago
      Yeah its now combined to be 15GB for all Google products.
• salimmadjd 13y ago
  How long before someone starts creating a photo cloud backup solution using flickr? Heck, we can create multiple accounts to extend the size to 4,5,6 TB and have a simple interface to treat the array of independent accounts as one storage unit.
  • d23 13y ago
    Glad I'm not the only one who thought this way. I always wanted to do that with Dropbox or Drive, but the free 1TB is making this a lot more attractive of a prospect. Still, it might be a bit obvious one were abusing it.
• mtgx 13y ago
  Well on Google+ it's unlimited now for photos (I'm not sure if for every resolution or just up to 8MP, though).
  • intrazoo 13y ago
    I believe over that limit goes towards your 15gb limit (unless you pay for a plan). Side note, if you are grand-parented into a google storage plan (which is great, $20 a year for 80gbs), the recent gmail/other storage merge does not apply to you, I believe.
• prawn 13y ago
  I'm not sure why they'd dump the prestige of the Pro badge? I imagine users would've liked having that displayed, like the red ring on a pro Canon lens being a visible differentiator in public? "Ad Free" just sounds like a bland name. Does the paid membership make your browsing experience ad free or prevent ads from showing on your profile on photos? I could see the latter allowing for much cleaner and professional galleries.
• PavlovsCat 13y ago
  I don't even need 1 GB for my photos. What I do need, and what flickr still doesn't have from what I can see [if I missed it, I'd be glad to be corrected], is a way to update an existing photo (upload the tweaked file, but keep the tags and URL etc.). Maybe this is to prevent abuse (make photo of cute kitten, wait until a lot of people favourited it, swap image with something gross), but still... carving digital images generated from RAW files into stone like that just rubs me the wrong way. That said, I still love the fact that something is happening to the site. Just like 500px, I think such sites are great to get feedback and exposure, just a little awkward when it comes to really calling them home.
  • k2enemy 13y ago
    On the old Flickr this was possible with a pro account. On the new Flickr, if you go to a single image page and click the three dots in the lower right corner, there is an option to "replace this photo."
    • PavlovsCat 13y ago
      Oh, thanks! I wondered about those dots (they do nothing in Opera).
• jebblue 13y ago
  Is it possible to use it as general file storage for backups?
  • guelo 13y ago
    I guess you could try encoding your files as images.
  • krcz 13y ago
    I'm not sure it is a good idea to store backups in place where they can be deleted anytime due to violation of terms (data disguised as photos != photos).
• aeurielesn 13y ago
  I hope they update the limits in the Flickr Uploader application. At least in OSX, I recently downloaded it and it shows me the old 300MB limit (left this month.)
• gyardley 13y ago
  Interesting design choices - the photos are highlighted front and center but all the social aspects of Flickr have been shoved downward into have-to-scroll territory. Contrast this to Facebook and Instagram, which both use a right sidebar layout for profile and comments, which ensures everything's easily visible above the fold. If you've been using Flickr as a social tool, making and getting lots of comments, I could see you being a bit upset with the decreased emphasis on social features in the new layout. I wonder what effect these changes will have on the level of social interaction on the site. I also wonder if it was a planned deemphasis, or just an inadvertent consequence of expanding the space given over to the picture.
  • epa 13y ago
    Good insights - I agree with you. As a past social flickr user, I checked out my old account. It took me quite a while to find old comments and new activity, which is much different than the past of it being up front.
• oakaz 13y ago
  It's more useful but also too crowded. And it really doesn't make sense to a popup for someone who logins with Facebook. Please fix the login.
• bigiain 13y ago
  So, who's already working on their "files stored steganographically in Flickr photos" cloud storage filesystem? Or perhaps a little more practically, a WordPress/Joomla/Drupal/whatever plugin to use Flickr as a CDN?
• oakaz 13y ago
  What is that huge "joined on" text? Am I blind? Do I want to see that? Is it something useful? Yahoo obviously needs to hire a designer. It looks like an intern designed it.
• Pyrodogg 13y ago
  I used to be a flickr pro user, and then I left over a year ago. I do like the storage and overall design change, but there are other reasons I'm not really interested in going back. #1 being Don’t use Flickr to sell. If we find you engaging in commercial activity, we will warn you or delete your account. Some examples include selling products, services, or yourself through your photostream or in a group, using your account solely as a product catalog, or linking to commercial sites in your photostream. If you engage in commercial activity elsewhere on the internets or in the real world, you’re still welcome on Flickr—in fact, we’ve even set up some best practices especially for you. http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne ...which definitely takes some steam out of the previous "pro" account. I've been pursuing photography as a serious hobby for just over 7 years. I'm not expecting to make tons of money in on-line sales; I just hate displaying most of my things with those handcuffs on. I used to upload all over the place and just crave the attention of the favorites and likes, etc. Now I am more selective of what photos I publish and where. I'm much more interested in a gallery type offering. Most of my casual photos that I would think about posting back to flickr are already on Facebook or G+ where my friends and family can see them.
• thomasfoster96 13y ago
  Seeing every tech blog in the universe carrying this story in my Facebook feed this morning got me really excited. So I actually went over and tried to log into my old Flickr account. And so encountered Yahoo's terrible login system for Australian users. No 1TB for me.
• kristopolous 13y ago
  But, couldn't I just coerce any data to be an image and then just use it as a general store? Certainly. I imagine flickrstore.py in my near future - it'd be like megaupload (was) without the nagware.
• clement75009 13y ago
  That free 1 TB of storage is a big deal. 1 TB of storage on Google Drive is currently $49.99 a month! (DropBox is even more expensive). When Google lowers their prices too, we'll quickly arrive to the situation where we can have free/cheap unlimited storage for life. That's amazing. http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2375123 http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
• leephillips 13y ago
  They just sent me this in an email: "As a Pro Member, your subscription remains the same. You'll enjoy unlimited space for your photos and videos, detailed stats and an ad-free experience. However, you can switch to a Free account before August 20, 2013." I can't understand what this is supposed to mean. But it sounds like the pro account, which provided unlimited storage for $25/yr, is going away. I wonder what they do about pro members who already have more than 1 or 2 TB of usage now?
  • leviathant 13y ago
    Pro accounts appear to be grandfathered in - you keep the unlimited space, you can continue to renew at $25/yr, but with the 'Free' account, you can upload larger individual files - 200mb photos in 'Free' vs 50mb photos in 'Pro', 1gb videos in 'Free' vs 500mb in 'Pro' - there are more details at http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/
    • rallison 13y ago
      I wonder if the 200MB vs 50MB differentiation is intentional. As a Pro user, I was curious, so I tried uploading a 70MB file. The flickr uploader complained. I tried a 30MB file and it was happy. So, it appears that, at least as of now, the 50MB limit may still be in place for Pro users.
• Strang 13y ago
  I am genuinely confused. I am currently a Pro user. I'm happy paying $25/year for what I get. Now, to get all the same benefits that I was getting for $25/year, I can just degrade to a free account? I guess this assumes that there are a lot of mobile users now and installing ad-blockers on mobile is much more difficult. Still, what a strange decision.
  • rallison 13y ago
    If you continue to pay for the Pro account, you get no ads (the free tier is ad supported), unlimited storage space (no new plans get this, so this is a nice grandfathered bonus.. if you need more than 1TB that is) and photo stats. But yes, the difference between free and Pro is no longer as large of a distinction as it used to be.
    • Strang 13y ago
      Hmm, I guess I will degrade my account and flickr will lose a paying customer. Seems like most users either a) are resigned to seeing ads on every website or b) have installed an ad-blocker. I don't see how paying for ad removal can generate much money.
      • rallison 13y ago
        Keep in mind that the ad-free experience also means visitors don't see any ads when browsing your photos if you are a pro user. This may or may not be important to you, but is arguably worth the $25 per year for any use that approaches professional level.
• quackerhacker 13y ago
  Go Long on Yahoo. I betting the general consensus is optimistic about Yahoo....like I said in a different post, Yahoo is making great headlines, or what was the term at Google when Mayer was there (buzz,JK). As for what I believe, I REALLY hope Yahoo keeps it up, but I like rooting for the underdog...ditch the contract with bing searches, and redesign the homepage already. Keep up the good PR...now back it with the good products
• benrhughes 13y ago
  The 300MB limit might have been removed from the copy, but it's still enforced: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5428533/Capture.PNG https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5428533/Capture.PNG
• bane 13y ago
  First impressions: awesome Looks beautiful at first glance. Quick second impressions: I kinda miss lots of the information I used to have. I don't get why there are still pages after scrolling for a while. Some of the old interface still bleeds through a bit. Looks like it's being actively worked on (even after launch). Space is impressive, I haven't even gotten close to hitting that much with my pro account let alone a free one. I wish they'd fix the crappy upload app.
• kailuowang 13y ago
  I hate this new layout. Artistic images need space, especially images that aren't meant to be place together. Otherwise their color would collide with each other and ruin the visual experience for them. If flickr wants to become a social network that features family photos maybe that's the right layout, but I think most of the pro users weren't paying $25 a year for that purpose. Flickr is no longer a valid place to share pictures for photographers who care about their visual quality. That made me really sad today.
  • TeMPOraL 13y ago
    Interesting. As a viewer, not an artist, I considered Flickr the biggest usability failure among the part of web that is actually used by people. I mean it. It was my worst photo-browsing experience ever (even lists of images on Wikimedia Commons are nicer). I never understood why people posted photos to this website or how it became popular. Could you, or anyone, share some thoughts of that? I am genuinely interested in how people who were more target-audience felt about Flickr.
    • kailuowang 13y ago
      Have you seen pBase? That's what photographers used to have before flickr
  • Nagyman 13y ago
    500px.com seems more geared towards professional photographers, if you're looking for such an option.
    • ubercow13 13y ago
      I agree that the flickr redesign is horrible, but I don't think 500px is that much better. Photos are still too close together and have text and UI elements overlayed. It looks messy to me.
      • mattebb 13y ago
        500px also mechanically crops your images to square in the main listing, completely changing your compositions. This is a deal breaker for me.
• goblin89 13y ago
  As much as I'm excited about the new Flickr, redesign is not complete. For example, the collections pages and batch editor remain the same. This causes some UI inconsistencies. Edit: along with copy inconsistencies pointed out in other comments (concerning some important aspects such as new policies, esp. regarding paying customers), this makes me worry. From my experience, Flickr generally has been very consistent about their UX. I hope the redesign is just a minor screw-up.
• photorized 13y ago
  For a site that's been stagnant for years, the new UI is a dramatic change. No wonder people are reacting negatively. I've had the Pro account since pre-acquisition days, and I have to admit there was something strangely comforting in a predicable UX that never changes... FB gets away with major UX changes from time to time (people seem to always hate them at first), it will be interesting to see if Yahoo gets away with this too.
• MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
  Happy paying customer for 2 or 3 years now. I'll probably be downgrading to free because it definitely supports my needs with these upgrades. This is a strange view of business: Take what people are happy to pay for, then give it to them for free.
  • omfg 13y ago
    They can probably make more with ads and the new fee to disable said ads.
    • MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
      I'd love to see the CPM they get that beats $24/yr from an infrequent user like me. I use it as a storage site and visit it extremely rarely. Maybe I'm an outlier.
      • danso 13y ago
        Nope, you're like me, another happy paying user. However, I'll pay $25 if I'm grandfathered in. But with how much more engaging the design is, I'll be sure to visit more often
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• abhisec 13y ago
  This is stupid. The 300MB limit is still there. Just tried it using my iphone app and it popped up the error message saying your monthly limit is reached. Even though this might be technical glitch it shows two donkeys don't make a horse. How stupid to remove the limits from your documentation and then throw an error when one tries to upload from iphone.
• rdl 13y ago
  The number of people I've seen who have asked "how do I set up self hosting for photos now" after the Flickr announcement is kind of distressing for Yahoo!'s future product plans. I'm slightly terrified Pro will go away; none of the new plans is at all appealing to me. I'd switch to 500px or self-host entirely, but that's a lot of work.
• fakeer 13y ago
  What happened to their "only last 80 or 100 or so photos visible for free accounts" feature, is it gone for new free accounts? People resist change but I really believe the old interface was more photographically inclined! The new interface looks like, how do I say it..., a little too much or just loud, trying to be hip or sth or web n.0. Whatever. Someone needs to tell me the logic behind Ad-free and Doublr plans' pricing because I just failed to the point! Or it's a typing error, Yahoo might fix in a week or so? Good to see some change and work at Flickr!.
  • rallison 13y ago
    The "only the last 200" photos visible "feature" is now gone, as is the 300MB/month limit. Yahoo has decided to pursue the gmail strategy - offer a huge amount of free storage as compared to the competition. The ad-free plan is probably most attractive for professional users (pro photographers, business accounts, etc) as it means no ads for anybody when viewing photos of a paid account. The doublr plan seems pretty clearly targeted at business accounts where $500/year is trivial. It definitely isn't a typo.
• amckinlay 13y ago
  I think this design looks incredibly bland and uninspired. I really like the old design better.
• tn13 13y ago
  Will Yahoo! tightly integrate Flickr with Tumblr ? It will be really good for Photoblog lovers like me.
• tn13 13y ago
  How much would it cost to store 2TB in Amazon s3 ? With $0.080 per GB per month it is 0.08204812 = $1966 per year And that is just storage. Flickr provides lot more than just storage. So $500 per year does sound reasonable and 1TB free sounds like a crazy good offer.
• joelhooks 13y ago
  Really like the ability to buy my way out of ads. Would love to see other big ad driven properties (I'm looking at you Facebook) give me the option too.
• fiatmoney 13y ago
  With 1TB of space, it starts to be really attractive to try to embed additional data in your pictures and use it as a general data store.
• jamieb 13y ago
  Given all the "look how they let flickr languish" responses to the tumblr acquisition, I can't help but feel this was artfully timed. Well played yahoo. Well played.
• ChrisNorstrom 13y ago
  While I do welcome it... Design wasn't Flickr's problem, it's the piss poor search engine and it's people uploading millions of their blurry family photos and clogging up the search results with garbage. Flickr needs to decide what it wants to be, an image hosting site or a photography community. One will kill the other so stop trying to be both. I routinely hunt for creative commons / copyrighted images for ads and commercial use on flickr (yes, that means contacting each and every photographer to purchase rights). I've spent a minimum of over one hundred hours tediously going through the search results. Flickr has one of the worst search engine algorithms I've ever seen. It's dumb beyond all reason. I'll search for "Mountain View Lake" and get a page full of "Asian Children". I mean it's really random.
  • fraserharris 13y ago
    Have you had any more luck with 500px?
  • timc3 13y ago
    Have you ever thought that the primary use for a lot of people isn't to give you a resource, but is for sharing their family photos. Pay for Getty if you don't like it.
• macarthy12 13y ago
  "This item can not be installed you your country" wtf
• fotoblur 13y ago
  IMHO their UI further validates the Facebook commenting style unfortunately. I've always felt the tree based conversations design is a much easier way to follow various side conversations that spring up. But anyway, its blah, its bling, its boring. Can't help but to notice similarities to other sites in their design, but I guess thats the way the web works.
• dreamdu5t 13y ago
  Why does Marissa Mayor get all the credit? Was the redesign her idea? Was it headed by her? etc. Of course she posted it, because she has a super-positive personal brand/image in popular media. Just curious how much of this is her.
  • fotoblur 13y ago
    Funny when I read this, I thought of Jobs.
  • thomasjoulin 13y ago
    I think for the same reason we credited Steve Jobs when he came back to Apple to turn it over. New Flickr might be team work, but it's thanks to Mayer work to bring back Yahoo at the big players table.
  • Pyrodogg 13y ago
    Because as soon as she took the job, people were petitioning her to save flickr. Suddenly, results! There's no way it could have been anything other than her personal initiative that got flickr turned around.
• planetjones 13y ago
  The loss of photo statistics seems a big one. As far as I can see unless you have an existing pro account and continue to renew, there is no way to get photo statistics. I really think Yahoo should offer a 'spyr' account or something which gives access to the stats.
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• invdevm 13y ago
  Interestingly a github commit lets you hack Flickr to store anything upto 1TB and not just your photos.
• NARKOZ 13y ago
  These changes really speak for themselves and if you've ever tried Instagram, you're basically getting the better quality photos: clear, crisp, tons of space, and very balanced filters. I love my iPhone and these guys deliver awesome app without being overpowering. As some of the other comments noted, "above and beyond" Instagram. The new design is great: modern and a little bit more flat for a modern look. I was actually kinda bummed because like....they got rid of the Pro badges....oh well. My photo gallery stands out and looks pretty sharp. Well done, Flickr. Anyway to sum it up, these changes are nice. And with a free 'old Pro' features, they're definitely a no brainer. I think any photographer can enjoy these changes as much as any casual photo sharer. Yahoo does it again!
• forlorn 13y ago
  Good bless Marissa!
• tiemand 13y ago
  1 TB free space is meaningless for me, unless they allow the upload of RAW files. As a hobbyist photographer, I avoid JPEG like a plague and store keep all my images in NEF (Nikon RAW) format.
• agiamas 13y ago
  now that's what you call revamping a service! Awesome =)
• junto 13y ago
  I imagine I am not alone here, but I actually can't find out how much space I am currently using 4,000+ photos. Looked on the stats page, but nothing there regarding the number of MB/GB used. Any ideas?
  • porsupah 13y ago
    If you're a Pro user, and thus without any storage limit, it seems they don't show you any usage information. If you're on one of the new accounts, you apparently do see a usage meter of some kind.