Yahoo! adds 1TB of free storage to Flickr in site revamp Not content with its $1.1bn acquisition of Tumblr, Marissa Mayer took to a New York stage on Monday evening to debut a redesigned Flickr photo site that includes 1TB free storage for each user – enough room to store 537,731 photos in "full original quality," meaning 6.5 megapixels. "If you took all the photos ever shot in the …
The revised Flickr site is slow (ie as in molasses) is so cool it is unusable and double the cost and with less services (ie stats are no longer available) for "Pro" now "ad-free" accounts.
It looks like it was hit by a bad dose of Google black and Windows8.
But most importantly it makes searching, displaying and commenting images on images so much more difficult.
The Flickr blog is full of negative comments.
This is what lies ahead for Tumblr users.
The Flickr site today has none of the feel that made the original Flickr so good to use ..simplicity and speed.
Fail Yahoo! FAIL!
These things do seem to be ballooning far faster than anything else, even disk space. I was reviewing my personal backup strategy a couple of weeks ago and noticed my porn database was up to 240GB and counting. And no, it's not as if I download whatever crap I come across, there's less than 2,000 photo sets on there.
I've a 100Mb fibre connection here. Then again- a Skype video call to my sister (also on 100Mb fibre) less than 100 miles away also failed last night- and we had to resort to manual typing to one another on the stream.
Perhaps the connectivity problems weren't necessarily at Yahoo's end? The UK, The Netherlands and Ireland seem to have had an interesting 24 hours on the internet........
I would rather smash my camera into pieces than upload images to any US based outfit.
Because if I were to take a photo right now in my kitchen I would be infringing the copyright of all the household items in the image. So either they will claim ownership of my work or extradite me to hell.
I know that I'm slightly exaggerating but all this corporate copyright trolling does have consequences.
This new version is of no use whatsoever to serious photographers. Mayer has completely ruined it. The aim is to tempt mobile phone cam / app users with lots of free space and an app that's 5 years too late, and then fire ads at them. It won't work. They already have facebook for that. What it has done is alienate every serious photographer, who were the lifeblood of flickr and who do not want their images displayed on a sub-facebook-wall. Great move, Mayer. It's useless to me now so subs cancelled and I'm off to Zenfolio/Smugmug.
Oh she, said it explicitly:
"there’s no such thing as Flickr Pro, because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, there is no such thing really as professional photographers, when there’s everything is professional photographers. Certainly there is varying levels of skills, but we didn’t want to have a Flickr Pro anymore, we wanted everyone to have professional quality photos, space, and sharing.” – Marissa Mayer, Yahoo Event, May 2013
Probably there are no such thing really as a professional CEO anymore - all they can do is try to slap more ads on everything.
Previously, Pro customers got unlimited storage for $25 a year with no adverts. Now you get 1TB for $50 a year (the only benefit being the removal of adverts), or 2TB for an eye watering $499 a year. Not much benefit for their loyal paying customers there, then!
Flickr used to be a great place to store your photos online with a minimal interface and decent speed. Now it runs like crap and looks like the bastard offspring of MyPlace and Facebook.
Massively underwhelmed by this "upgrade"...
Exactly this.
Many people in the UK get a Flickr Pro account because they BT Internet clients. Me for example. No word on the email about that and nothing from BT so far. Being a very very light user of Flickr whatever the changes are behind the scenes probably won't have a great effect on me but may for others. Presumably at some point BT Yahoo will provide a pointer for us - I assume the easiest thing would somply be to move to the ad free 1Tb version that would suffice for most people. So the benefit of the freebies notionally increases to $50.
On the other hand if people ar throwing high res images and videos into the storage 1Tb, for a heavy user, may not be much. I certainly have more than that at home, though I can;t imagine wanting to load the entire "library" to Flickr. Especially at the connection speeds typically available.
I would guess that the business modelling suggests that the deal will far exceed the expectations of the majority of users and the loss of a few high volume users, should that occur, will have little if any negative impact. It might even be positive fo rthe bottom line.
Having had a brief look at the new format it seems to be another "me too" mishmash that lands you somewhere interesting if you are inquisitve but not necessarily where you want to be. I suppose one can control that. I will try to gather some enthusiasm for going searching for what it can do for me.
I'm trying to take my time because I always hate it when a site I like is made over to look like shit.
But I used to pay for flickr for two reasons - stats and storage space.
Now they've removed the need to pay for storage space I'm looking at just paying for the stats. That seems fairly hard to justify, but fortunately, they've made the decision easier by doubling the price.
I'm out.
> An Explore option has also been added to show off the most popular uploaded images on a day-to-day basis, and there's a slideshow feature to have them fade in and out with a funky soundtrack playing in the background.
erm, when exactly did you last look at Flickr? These features are old. Although I'm not sure about the "funky soundtrack".
has anyone written a FlickrFileSystem module yet so we can store other data (non-images) in the free 1-TB of space they are giving out? ie - this big 300-gig backup of my boot drive? Break it into a bunch of 200-meg chunks, encapsulate it in something that looks like a JPG and send it off to Flickr. That would be cool.
Maybe this looks good on an iPad - it certainly looks silly on a 27" monitor... Seems that they have caught the Windows 8 disease - everything must look the same on all devices. Actually, now, it's okay to make them look different from device to device, as long as it is appropriate for the device you are using...
Anyway, are there any other sides that
1) allow you to embed pictures in a separate web site (ie my own web site has the "im src" tag, but it points to an image being pulled from flickr), and
2) give stats on image views?
Thanks
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