{"id":6239,"date":"2018-11-05T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T20:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6239"},"modified":"2018-11-05T20:48:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T20:48:09","slug":"flickr-flounders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6239","title":{"rendered":"Flickr Flounders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flickr recently announced some changes to their free account offering, in a blog post\u00a0Why we\u2019re changing Flickr free accounts<\/a> Flickr announced “Beginning January 8, 2019, Free accounts will be limited to 1,000 photos and videos. If you need unlimited storage, you\u2019ll need to upgrade to Flickr Pro.”<\/p>\n

If you have a free account on Flickr and have more than 1,000 images, Flickr will start deleting them for you in February until you are down to the new limit.<\/p>\n

The Flickr blog post also states something that is a tad misleading “It\u2019s also more closely aligned to Flickr\u2019s past (before 2013, Free members were limited to 200 photos), and we liked the idea of returning to our roots but with free space for five times as many photos as before”.<\/p>\n

This isn’t strictly accurate, whereas only 200 images would appear in your photostream, you were not restricted to 200 images, the images were not deleted, they could stlll exist in groups or remain embedded on blogs and forums and if you upgraded to pro you would be able to freely access them again. This actually acted as an incentive to go pro, the curtain would be withdrawn from your Flickr photos and everything would be there.<\/p>\n

An unfortunate set of circumstances have led to this situation, the main one being Yahoo’s ridiculous 1TB of free storage offer back in 2013. That really devalued Flickr pro, but it also encouraged people to freely upload.<\/p>\n

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Flickr are obviously a business and their interests are in remaining a viable business but these changes are engaging with far too much stick and nowhere near enough carrot. Storage space isn’t free and costs need to be accounted for but Flickr are giving little incentive for people over the forthcoming 1,000 image limit to go pro.<\/p>\n

Whereas Yahoo’s offer was absurd, very few people are likely to be eating far into the current 1TB limit. That would be an immense amount of images and whereas the Yahoo offer did indeed encourage photo dumping, there has to be a better way of asking people to get onboard with Flickr’s needed changes to the free offering than threatening to delete them.<\/p>\n

I have a lot of sympathy for the situation Flickr find themselves in but I also have a lot of scorn for the steps they are taking to address the issues.<\/p>\n

A positive for Second Life users has appeared on the horizon regarding their usage of Flickr, some people felt that Flickr was no longer going to welcome Second Life users and the Flickr community can at times seem hostile to Second Life, but CEO Don MacAskill stated on the Flickr help forum<\/a> “Virtual photographer are photographers. You care about photography, so we care about you. It’s that simple. I don’t know where the idea that you aren’t “real” photographers, or that virtual photography is somehow spam, came from but that’s not from me. You are welcome at Flickr”.<\/p>\n

Strawberry Singh has a couple of good posts regarding Flickr, in one she looks at alternatives to Flickr<\/a> and in the other she gives some good tips on Flickr etiquette<\/a>, one of the most important being that Second Life images should be uploaded as screenshots, you can set this as a default option if you mostly upload Second Life images.<\/p>\n

Overall I think Flickr are making a mess with these changes, but as I said I do have a lot of sympathy for the situation they are in, they inherited a mess. Time will tell whether they have made the right move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flickr recently announced some changes to their free account offering, in a blog post\u00a0Why we\u2019re changing Flickr free accounts Flickr announced “Beginning January 8, 2019, Free accounts will be limited to 1,000 photos and videos. If you need unlimited storage, you\u2019ll need to upgrade to Flickr Pro.” If you have a free account on Flickr … <\/p>\n

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