But it’s still not making money, hence the pivot to inviting NSFW uploads. So far, Flickr said it hasn’t actually deleted any uploads (thank you, Flickr, but also, this means I wasted an afternoon in 2019 downloading zip files of everything I ever posted). These major changes were implemented to encourage users to save their personal archives by upgrading to a paid plan. Flickr also warned users that after a certain date, their photos could be deleted. But under SmugMug’s management, Flickr instituted a limit on how many photos free users could store, knocking down that terabyte of data to just 1,000 photos. For a while, there wasn’t much of a reason to pay for Flickr, since all users had a free terabyte of storage for their photos. It would be sad if that were all to disappear.īut Flickr is very expensive to run because it hosts so much data on the internet. For one thing, it showcases actual historical images, but it also chronicles a visual history of the world through the lens of millions of people since 2004. When SmugMug acquired the photo-hosting service in 2018, CEO Don MacAskill hoped to make the service profitable, calling it “ core to the entire fabric of the Internet.” But this wasn’t just hyperbolic CEO-speak - MacAskill had a point. Honestly, it’s not a bad move - it might be more effective than asking subscribers to recruit their friends to pay for Flickr. So, in an attempt to draw in more paying subscribers, Flickr changed its content guidelines to only allow Flickr Pro users to post “restricted” or “moderate” content, which includes photos of “full-frontal nudity and sexual acts.” Probably the biggest in Flickr’s history making the tired old photo service up-to-date and ahead of the competition.Flickr isn’t very good at making money, but as the old adage goes, sex sells. Overall, this is an extremely impressive upgrade. The uploader (called “Uploadr”) will eliminate any duplicates and, by default everything is marked as private though you do have the option to share photos if you wish. Search will first find your photos and then find publicly available photos that meet your criteria. It can also identify people and objects or even objects by color. Another feature, called Magic View, divides your photos into categories such as animal, architecture, people, food, plant, etc. I clicked on Berlin and there were the pictures I took when I was in that city. You can also look at your photos in a map view. All the pictures are still intact, which is more than I can say for that marriage. A few years ago I went to a wedding and, sure enough, when I searched for wedding it automatically brought up those images even though I never tagged them as such (I guess it knows what weddings usually look like). When I typed “cat” I got pictures of our dearly departed cat who left us several years ago. I typed “dog” in the search engine and up came his photos. I don’t quite know how it does this, but I was looking for a picture of my dog Yuri. In addition to storing all your photos, Flickr also uses image recognition software to analyze, tag and sort them. Of course, Flickr lets you download the photos at their original full resolution. There are other services that upload photos, including iCloud, but I’m not aware of any that offer this much space for free. I’ll still keep my Sugarsync and Dropbox accounts but I’ll use a lot less storage on those now that all of my photos are on Flickr. Giving away a terabyte of free photo storage is a big deal because it means I no longer have to pay my cloud storage provider for that service. And having that data backed up in the same building as your computer isn’t sufficient because - if there was a fire or other disaster - everything in the building would be at risk. If something were to happen to you computer, you could replace the software, the hardware and any music files that you downloaded or ripped but there is no way to replace personal data unless it’s backed up. The importance of storing your photos in the cloud can’t be overstated. It also works on PCs of course and the Flickr mobile app will upload your phone’s photos too. As I write, Flickr’s uploader is scanning folders on my Mac and uploading files. In fact, I’m so excited that I’m now about 12,000 files into uploading my entire collection of nearly the nearly 50,000 photos on my hard drive. It’s been years since I paid much attention to Yahoo’s Flickr but, with the new Flickr 4.0, it’s a compelling service that I’m pretty excited about.
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