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As 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

by pajju 13y ago

As 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 ago
The 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 ago
  So they must be editing those pages in real-time then! All those pages and occurrences across their site. ;)
chaz 13y ago
The Doublr plan is a strange offer. Wonder if there's a miscommunication on that.
- pajju 13y ago
  I 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 ago
    It makes sense, but $499 per year is expensive for an additional 1TB, when the first TB is free.
    - pajju 13y ago
      Yeah, the doublr plans are not consistent with the lower 1TB plan. Now this is like -- 1TB online storage = 450$/year, doesn't make sense now.
    - skeletonjelly 13y ago
      The effort of managing two accounts seems like a low barrier for the cheap
  - phyalow 13y ago
    1. Sign up for 2 accounts. 2. Adblock 3. ???? 4. Profit
Osmium 13y ago
So 1 TB is free, but an extra 1 TB is $500/yr?! I'm not sure I understand that. On another note, I (surprisingly) like how the disemvoweling is becoming synonymous with the Yahoo brand (with Tumblr now as well). What seemed stale is starting to seem fresh again. Playful, almost, like a wink to Web 2.0 -- though I imagine it could be perceived as being out of touch too, if they don't play it right.
- ghshephard 13y ago
  roughly, very roughly - 90%+ of the people on the 1 TB plan will likely use < 20 Gigabytes (at least over the next couple years), and probably 99% will use less than 100 gigabytes, whereas close to 100% of the people on the doublr plan will be using at least 1 Terabyte.
  - scholia 13y ago
    "probably 99% will use less than 100 gigabytes" I suspect you meant MEGAbytes ;-)
    - scholia 13y ago
      Ah, so not many people know how much space the average user consumes.... http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-01-29-43-metablogapi/3058.13_2D00_chart_5F00_1EACA5C3.png http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communit...
  - salimmadjd 13y ago
    best explanation of their pricing structure yet. What's stopping people from creating multiple accounts and use flickr as a cloud backup system for free?
    - Osmium 13y ago
      Agreed that this is why Yahoo is pricing it this way -- but I imagine it won't stop the pricing feeling "wrong" to many people. "Why should I pay $500 a year for just a little bit more than I what I was getting for free?" I would imagine, at that price point, it would drive people to use multiple accounts despite the irritation -- and that ultimately, because of that irritation, they might leave the service. Not a good situation for anyone.
jordn 13y ago
Can anyone see a way to make the 1TB serve as the main storage space of all your photos? (and not just publicly displaying them). I'm tied into iPhoto on a very full SSD and am longing for a way out.
- mynameisvlad 13y ago
  Uploading from iPhoto's share option, the default option is for photos to only be visible to you.
- clauretano 13y ago
  Something like Trovebox[0] might be a solution to your needs. You can use it as the web frontend to photos stored on dropbox/s3/box/etc [0] https://trovebox.com/ https://trovebox.com/
- sushimustwrite 13y ago
  Community manager at Trovebox here. To go along with the other Trovebox-related reply, we're planning to start work on an iPhoto plugin for Trovebox soon because we've gotten so many requests for it. If you're specifically looking for Flickr, a little searching shows me this page, which mentions an (unofficial) iPhoto plugin: http://www.flickr.com/tools/ http://www.flickr.com/tools/
tonyblundell 13y ago
The redesign looks awesome, but who's going to pay a recurring $49 just to remove ads? Can't help but think their money men might be about to screw this up. Hope not, love Flickr :-s
- jrdn 13y ago
  It's $49.99 a year, though. As a fairly heavy flickr user I could easily see spending $4.16/month to remove ads.
  - ajays 13y ago
    Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that it's not just that you don't see ads; it's also that others don't see ads on your photos. The latter can be an important feature for those who use Flickr to create professional portfolios.
    - munkymorgy 13y ago
      The original pro account removed ads while browsing the site, Not from your pages as viewed by others. Plus a lot of the time your Photos are submitted to groups, would adds be removed every time one of your pictures turned up on the page? Pretty sure it is not a business feature to show a clean page but a viewer option for distraction free viewing.
      - ajays 13y ago
        Anecdotally, I think it is the case that if you're a Pro user, and someone else is viewing your photostream, then they won't see ads next to your photo. This probably doesn't apply to your photos in other groups, etc. So we both may be right.
  - tonyblundell 13y ago
    But surely they don't make $49 per user per year on ads? It looks like they're over-charging on the paid accounts to cover the costs of the free accounts. Especially the 1TB is free, 2TB is $500 deal. And it seems that after proving people will happily pay for premium features, they've now sent an email to all their customers which essentially says unless you have over 1TB of photos with us (which is pretty-much no-one), you may as well cancel and use the free account instead. It seems like a very bizarre structure to me and I can't see people subscribing to it which is a shame as IMHO they've just vastly improved what was already by far the best product in its market. I Hope I'm wrong.
jansen 13y ago
Even though they removed the limit from the terms today, it was still active when I tried to upload images to Flickr just now. They'll probably correct that soon, still not the most trustworthy way of making this kind of announcement.

by pajju 13y ago

0x0 13y ago

The 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 ago
So they must be editing those pages in real-time then! All those pages and occurrences across their site. ;)

chaz 13y ago

The Doublr plan is a strange offer. Wonder if there's a miscommunication on that.

pajju 13y ago
I 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 ago
  It makes sense, but $499 per year is expensive for an additional 1TB, when the first TB is free.
  - pajju 13y ago
    Yeah, the doublr plans are not consistent with the lower 1TB plan. Now this is like -- 1TB online storage = 450$/year, doesn't make sense now.
  - skeletonjelly 13y ago
    The effort of managing two accounts seems like a low barrier for the cheap
- phyalow 13y ago
  1. Sign up for 2 accounts. 2. Adblock 3. ???? 4. Profit

Osmium 13y ago

So 1 TB is free, but an extra 1 TB is $500/yr?! I'm not sure I understand that. On another note, I (surprisingly) like how the disemvoweling is becoming synonymous with the Yahoo brand (with Tumblr now as well). What seemed stale is starting to seem fresh again. Playful, almost, like a wink to Web 2.0 -- though I imagine it could be perceived as being out of touch too, if they don't play it right.

ghshephard 13y ago
roughly, very roughly - 90%+ of the people on the 1 TB plan will likely use < 20 Gigabytes (at least over the next couple years), and probably 99% will use less than 100 gigabytes, whereas close to 100% of the people on the doublr plan will be using at least 1 Terabyte.
- scholia 13y ago
  "probably 99% will use less than 100 gigabytes" I suspect you meant MEGAbytes ;-)
  - scholia 13y ago
    Ah, so not many people know how much space the average user consumes.... http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-01-29-43-metablogapi/3058.13_2D00_chart_5F00_1EACA5C3.png http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communit...
- salimmadjd 13y ago
  best explanation of their pricing structure yet. What's stopping people from creating multiple accounts and use flickr as a cloud backup system for free?
  - Osmium 13y ago
    Agreed that this is why Yahoo is pricing it this way -- but I imagine it won't stop the pricing feeling "wrong" to many people. "Why should I pay $500 a year for just a little bit more than I what I was getting for free?" I would imagine, at that price point, it would drive people to use multiple accounts despite the irritation -- and that ultimately, because of that irritation, they might leave the service. Not a good situation for anyone.

jordn 13y ago

Can anyone see a way to make the 1TB serve as the main storage space of all your photos? (and not just publicly displaying them). I'm tied into iPhoto on a very full SSD and am longing for a way out.

mynameisvlad 13y ago
Uploading from iPhoto's share option, the default option is for photos to only be visible to you.
clauretano 13y ago
Something like Trovebox[0] might be a solution to your needs. You can use it as the web frontend to photos stored on dropbox/s3/box/etc [0] https://trovebox.com/ https://trovebox.com/
sushimustwrite 13y ago
Community manager at Trovebox here. To go along with the other Trovebox-related reply, we're planning to start work on an iPhoto plugin for Trovebox soon because we've gotten so many requests for it. If you're specifically looking for Flickr, a little searching shows me this page, which mentions an (unofficial) iPhoto plugin: http://www.flickr.com/tools/ http://www.flickr.com/tools/

tonyblundell 13y ago

The redesign looks awesome, but who's going to pay a recurring $49 just to remove ads? Can't help but think their money men might be about to screw this up. Hope not, love Flickr :-s

jrdn 13y ago
It's $49.99 a year, though. As a fairly heavy flickr user I could easily see spending $4.16/month to remove ads.
- ajays 13y ago
  Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that it's not just that you don't see ads; it's also that others don't see ads on your photos. The latter can be an important feature for those who use Flickr to create professional portfolios.
  - munkymorgy 13y ago
    The original pro account removed ads while browsing the site, Not from your pages as viewed by others. Plus a lot of the time your Photos are submitted to groups, would adds be removed every time one of your pictures turned up on the page? Pretty sure it is not a business feature to show a clean page but a viewer option for distraction free viewing.
    - ajays 13y ago
      Anecdotally, I think it is the case that if you're a Pro user, and someone else is viewing your photostream, then they won't see ads next to your photo. This probably doesn't apply to your photos in other groups, etc. So we both may be right.
- tonyblundell 13y ago
  But surely they don't make $49 per user per year on ads? It looks like they're over-charging on the paid accounts to cover the costs of the free accounts. Especially the 1TB is free, 2TB is $500 deal. And it seems that after proving people will happily pay for premium features, they've now sent an email to all their customers which essentially says unless you have over 1TB of photos with us (which is pretty-much no-one), you may as well cancel and use the free account instead. It seems like a very bizarre structure to me and I can't see people subscribing to it which is a shame as IMHO they've just vastly improved what was already by far the best product in its market. I Hope I'm wrong.

jansen 13y ago

Even though they removed the limit from the terms today, it was still active when I tried to upload images to Flickr just now. They'll probably correct that soon, still not the most trustworthy way of making this kind of announcement.