Flickr will end 1TB of free storage and limit free users to 1,000 photos
Flickr was purchased in April by professional photo hosting service SmugMug, and today, the first major changes under the new ownership have been announced. There's a serious downgrade for free users, who are now limited to 1,000 pictures on the photo sharing site, instead of the free 1TB of storage that was previously offered.
As Flickr explains in its press release announcing the change, "Unfortunately, 'free' services are seldom actually free for users. Users pay with their data or with their time. We would rather the arrangement be transparent." It makes a certain amount of sense — servers aren't free, after all — but for free users with more than 1,000 photos, it's not ideal news.
[...] In what may be the nicest quality-of-life change, starting in January, all users — paid and free — won't have to use Yahoo to log in to Flickr anymore.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Friday November 02 2018, @11:13AM (5 children)
FTFA :
I thought they wanted money.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday November 02 2018, @02:15PM (3 children)
> I thought they wanted money.
What do you think the data is for? Cattle get free food and pay with their tasty meat, which is then converted to money with the help of someone who wants to sink their teeth into it.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Friday November 02 2018, @05:09PM (2 children)
Yes I know that, I did see that they mentioned data, but they also said ".... or [users pay] with their time". So how could I pay them with time? Come and sweep their office floor?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @06:06PM
Or with your time spent using the service, seeing sidebar ads, or not.
(Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday November 02 2018, @07:59PM
> So how could I pay them with time?
Not knowing Flickr, I don't know, but common ways on social media are by commenting in threads (a lively community draws in more passers-by) and being a volunteer moderator/editor/organizer/free corporate dogsbody for some subpage or special interest group on the site.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Sunday November 04 2018, @02:47AM
Time is money.
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