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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'
by 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 agoFor most normal users taking a normal amount of photos, that's absolutely fine.
- manacit 13y agoI'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 agoI 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 agoHuh. 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 agoWhen 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.
- corresation 13y agoThe pro badge is no more, and pro accounts exist only as grandfathered in plans. You can renew an existing pro account, but those who aren't currently can't subscribe to it.
- synx508 13y agoIt's worth pointing out that you can't renew existing pro accounts manually, only accounts that are set up with recurring transactions will renew automatically. For some reason this doesn't include my account, as far as I can tell. I'm a little annoyed about this. As I understand it, accounts that were originally a gift, like mine, don't get the recurring transaction treatment. This makes sense, but only up to a point, that point being where the owner of the account renews it with a different credit card and it becomes truly "theirs". I am not sure that flickr gave this scenario due consideration, there must be a lot of people who received pro as a gift but have since paid to renew it will be unable to benefit from the reduced "grandfathered" price of $25.
- MartinCron 13y agoOK, maybe I'm shallow and elitist, but at least I'm honest. I always liked seeing my little "pro" badge there...
- rallison 13y agoThis only applies to existing Pro accounts, not new ones [1]. [1] https://secure.flickr.com/help/limits/#150487675 https://secure.flickr.com/help/limits/#150487675
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- rallison 13y agoAlthough, for existing Pro users, it looks like they can continue renewing their Pro accounts [1]: * 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. * [1] https://secure.flickr.com/help/limits/#150487675 https://secure.flickr.com/help/limits/#150487675
- ghshephard 13y agoI saw that - but I haven't been able to find out what price we can renew at. If it's still at $25 - every pro user in the universe will renew. If it's even $50 - for unlimited storage (versus $500/year for 2 terabytes) - still sounds like a no brainer. I wonder if Yahoo/Flickr are really going to take that good a care of their existing pro users?
- rallison 13y agoI believe, as of now, the price is still $25. From my own "manage your pro account page": Your Flickr Pro subscription: 1-year Pro at $24.95 Your Pro account will renew automatically on 3rd September, 2013 https://secure.flickr.com/account/order/manage https://secure.flickr.com/account/order/manage
- porsupah 13y agoInteresting. Yes, I'm seeing similarly - $44.95 on a two year basis, renewing next in September.
- timdorr 13y agoPro is now "Ad Free": http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ Well, sort of. There's no mention of bandwidth on the new limits page, other than it was previously unlimited under Pro. They apparently haven't completely updated their FAQ page...
- ch0wn 13y agoI don't see that limit anymore. Have they updated the page? Especially with 200MB limit per photo this seems really odd.
- 0x0 13y agoYes, it looks like someone's editing that page in real time now!
- SmileyKeith 13y agoYea and the 300mb limit is there now with 50mb per photo.
- mauriciob 13y agoNope. Gone again.
- skeletonjelly 13y agoI know what you mean but this sounds like something off CSI
- snogglethorpe 13y agoI'm curious to see how many people will hit that limit... the largest images I have, at about 6000 x 4000, with 48-bit floating-point pixels, using non-lossy compression, are only 80MB...
- timbre 13y agoStitch a few of those into a panorama.
- corresation 13y agoThat Flickr page is a bizarre mishmash of old and new information.
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- brown9-2 13y agoWhere is the upload rate limit mentioned?
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- coldtea 13y agoIt is not. Some id^H^H guy saw the old limit posted before the page was updated, and tons followed to comment without pausing to think that such a limit does not make sense with the new announcement.
- 0x0 13y agoThe page was using all the new account type names, and seemed like it was otherwise all up to date. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered posting about it. Seemed like a plausible "catch" to the generous storage limit.
- victortrac 13y agoI don't actually see the 300MB/month limit on that page. Was it possibly a vestigial FAQ list item that just got removed?
- 0x0 13y agoThe page specifically listed the new account types (free, adfree, doublr) but also mentioned that the free account was limited to 300mb/month. Maybe they forgot to change a paragraph when they published it earlier.
- paulmiwatson 13y agoCheck again, the mention of 300MB/month is gone. Looks like old copy cache.
- corresation 13y agoHumour me, but are you on the Flickr team? I'm seeing that page change before my very eyes, clearly as a "oh shit!" response when the discrepancies were noticed, and the cache excuse is as old as time.
- pbreit 13y agoProbably just didn't get all the edits in from the old FAQs. No reason for the accusations.
- corresation 13y agoIt was developer humour rather than an accusation. Many of us have been in the situation where we overlooked changing something, and when it's noticed we quickly change it and attribute the original mistake to some mysterious caching issue.
- alwaysdoit 13y agoJust tried to use their uploader and hit the limit when I got to 300MB.
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- superchink 13y agoI'm unable to find any mention of this 300MB/month limit on that linked page? I only see: "Upload photos of up to 200MB per photo"
- potatolicious 13y agoAs a Flickr Pro user, this upsets me. 300MB is like what, 20-odd full-sized JPEGs? A month? With no way to lift that limit even if paying? Ugh.
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- nsxwolf 13y agoI wish people wouldn't downvote others for simply reporting on what they see. It's not your fault Fickr is live editing their page.
- tomasien 13y agoAnd Internet forum votes aren't personal. Karma doesn't matter. We downvote bad information, period.
- BHSPitMonkey 13y agoOn Reddit, sure. HN, like StackOverflow, uses it to decide what level of participation you're allowed to have.
- tomasien 13y agoOnly essentially at levels that are extraordinarily achievable with participation. Really, only at the 500 level does it matter.
- supergauntlet 13y agoWait, what? I don't post a lot on HN, what do you get at the 500 point level..?
- AlisdairO 13y agoThe ability to downvote.
- pajju 13y agoAs per the new plans, there is no 300MB/month upload-limits on free-accounts.( please don't see Google search results, was that cached? ) Here are their newer plans -- Free-Accounts: + 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 accounts: (older pro-accounts are gone!) + $49.99 per year + All the benefits of a free account + No ads in your browsing experience Doublr-Plan(extra 1 TB space): + $499.99 per year + 2 Terabytes of photo and video space + You get all the benefits of the free account
- 0x0 13y agoThe google link was just for the calculator feature, noone here's been looking at cached pages. When I looked at the limits page it was updated to list all the new plans, but it also mentioned a 300MB/month upload limit for free accounts (in two spots, I seem to recall, but at least one, and then it was gone.)
- pajju 13y agoSo they must be editing those pages in real-time then! All those pages and occurrences across their site. ;)
- chaz 13y agoThe Doublr plan is a strange offer. Wonder if there's a miscommunication on that.
- pajju 13y agoI did not find it strange. You get 1TB extra i.e total 2 TB + no ads. Some interesting observations -- the cost of Free account for Yahoo is -- 450$ per free-user/year. So, lets be prepared to get ads all around. :)
- david_shaw 13y agoIt makes sense, but $499 per year is expensive for an additional 1TB, when the first TB is free.
- oz 13y agoNever knew Google Calculator could be used like that. Thanks.
- ableal 13y agoBeware, it has a subtle catch: (1 TB) / (300 (MB / month)) = 291.271111 years But if you think you're dealing with decimal Bytes, you're wrong - e.g, putting it in GB and taking the units out: 1000 / (0.3 / month) = 277.777778 years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte - Google is using TiB/GiB/MiB and writing up the wrong unit)
- Dylan16807 13y agoI think you mean the right unit :)
- nathangibbs 13y agoFlickr staff commented on this post that the 300Mb monthly limit was a bug: http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633531669359/page4/#reply72157633552033862 http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633531669359/pag...