Start Backing Up Your Flickr Photos Now!

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Flickr was recently purchased by Smugmug, and the new owners are making some changes. In a press release, Flickr announced "Photographer-Centric Improvements to Flickr Pro and Free plans." Part of those plans include capping the free user photo limit to 1,000 pictures, a significant reduction from the previous 1 terabyte limit. Flickr says that "Free members with more than 1,000 photos uploaded to Flickr will have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download photos over the 1,000 limit. After January 8, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr." This is definitely a step above Photobucket's sudden move to a subscription service, but if you have over 1000 photos on your Flickr account, you should start backing them up ASAP.

Flickr Pro is available for $49.99 per year. That’s hands down the best deal in photography, and Flickr users that upgrade to Pro before November 30 will also get 30 percent off the first year. Flickr has long offered a free plan to photographers, and we remain committed to a vibrant free offering. Free accounts will now be for a member’s 1,000 best photos or videos, regardless of size. This means, we are no longer offering a free terabyte of storage. 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.

While I haven't come close to 1000 photos yet, I've been using lensdump for awhile without any issues. Cubeupload also hosts photos without recompressing them, but they recently implemented a pretty strict size limit.
 
SmugMug.... first thought it was a mugshot gallery.
Sounds like a huge down grade than "Improvements".
 
Smugmug? Sounds like a company that sells coffee mugs or the like. :p
 
TordanGow said:
Nonsense. They've enhanced their value to create a new paradigm shift in cloud storage to enable growth hacking by increasing bandwidth of the photographer workflow, thus embracing an expanded core competency.
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And by doing this they are promoting synergy between their core brands and verticals while more closely aligning with their company values in a way which will allow for expanded outreach to a global marketplace without sacrificing their commitment to diversity.
 
Yeah the suits have spoken. They're signing their own death warrant. There are dozens of photographers who were loyal flickr users for a decade or more, who have thousands of photos uploaded. There is no way they're all going to upgrade to a paid plan. They'll just leave.
 
Were these guys asleep during the whole photobucket fiasco?

Host your own and you don't have to worry about it.
 
I probably only have a hundred or so photos on Flickr.. but I will miss browsing through all the other free accounts that have way more photos than I do.

Bye bye Flickr. I'll just host my own.
 
I have no idea what Flickr does differently than any other image host. But for me, uploading to Imgur and setting my account/albums to private seems to do the job for me.

Used to have a Photobucket account, but then they became Photofuckit and completely fubared my pictures.
 
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TordanGow said:
... thus embracing an expanded core competency.
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The last time I embraced an expanded core competency, I was arrested. Just remember, folks, any time you hear buzzwords, someone is hiding something.

Never explore your potentialities. Never order a burger that comes with weapons-grade cheese. Do not work smarter - just finish your work and go home. 'Methodology' is a word used by people who want to be kicked in the nuts.
 
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SamuraiInBlack said:
I have no idea what Flickr does differently than any other image host.
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Actual album/collection management is the main difference. I used to use it for all of my main shoots, but now mostly use it for project/how-to photos.

It's way better than imgur/etc for organization of photos.
 
SmugMug just shot its feet. Watch the traffic go down to a Sunday drivers on a two way street somewhere in the desert in South Cali.
 
Why not just spend a couple dollars on Google drive and get a few hundred gigs.

I spend $2 a month and current estimates put me at roughly 8000 photos before I somehow exhaust that space. $3 doubles that.
 
SamuraiInBlack said:
I have no idea what Flickr does differently than any other image host. But for me, uploading to Imgur and setting my account/albums to private seems to do the job for me.

Used to have a Photobucket account, but then they became Photofuckit and completely fubared my pictures.
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Imgur compresses the heck out of photos, particularly large ones. There have also been reports of Imgur staff deleting photos somewhat arbitrarily, but that never happened to me.


That's not a big deal for everyone, but I do personally prefer lossless hosts.
 
Anyone who only has their photos in anyone's cloud deserves what they will eventually get.
 
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AlphaAtlas said:
Imgur compresses the heck out of photos, particularly large ones. There have also been reports of Imgur staff deleting photos somewhat arbitrarily, but that never happened to me.


That's not a big deal for everyone, but I do personally prefer lossless hosts.
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When did they start compressing photos? There are some mega huge photos hosted on there that don't seem to suffer from compression that I can see. Then again I'm probably just a couple stronger prescriptions away from being legally blind, so I am probably not the best judge.
 
SamuraiInBlack said:
When did they start compressing photos? There are some mega huge photos hosted on there that don't seem to suffer from compression that I can see. Then again I'm probably just a couple stronger prescriptions away from being legally blind, so I am probably not the best judge.
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I'm not sure when they started, but:

https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/art...at-files-can-I-upload-What-is-the-size-limit-

The maximum file size for non-animated images (think JPG, PNG, etc) is 20MB. PNG files over 5MB will be converted to JPEGs.

The maximum file size for animated images (like GIFs) and video is 200MB. Video uploads cannot be longer than 30 seconds. GIF and video files over 2MB will be converted to GIFVs, where the sound is removed.

Non-animated images over 1MB for anonymous uploads and 5MB for account holders will be lossily compressed. All non-animated images receive lossless compression that reduces filesize while maintaining quality. Large GIFs will be converted to GIFV, which shrinks file size while maintaining a high quality, perfect for our expert GIF makers.
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And there's probably some more in previews too. It's not bad, but I ran into trouble trying to post PNG frame comparisons there, and you'd definitely lose some quality on large, sharp photos.
 
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