After Flcikr was taken over by Yahoo, it announced that each free user would receive 1TB of capacity under the title "Let's Smile." However, after it was officially acquired by SmugMug in May this year, some people originally felt that they were leaving Oath (Yahoo). The future should be brighter after the parent company), but now seeing the sudden change in Flickr's policy, many users should laugh and cry.
Because behind it is already SmugMug's Flickr, although in the blog post of the acquisition, , it feels quite peaceful, but as Flickr enters 2019, they also announced that they will bring major policy changes between free and paid accounts, not only greatly reducing the capacity/number of free accounts, but even Users who had paid for it for a long time in the past also directly brought the renewal price back to the original price without saying a word (the difference was almost double...).
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Flickr Urgent policy Transfer: There are 1,000 free account quotas left, and old photos will be "removed" from next year
The above "get straight to the point" home page description, my personal interpretation is "We are going to do it like this, no need to say more." In short, put aside That makes "interest." become the magical beauty of the second line. Let's talk about the results directly:
· Free users: from 1TB + with ads > only one thousand photos left
Compared to the 200 photos of the previous free account of 1TB Limit, this time Flickr seems to have given you a limit of 1,000. It also mentioned that "Flickr will never be without the contribution and participation of free members. We promise to continue to provide a wonderful free experience." However, this policy actually has a limit. For books, compared to the previous "only display" of the first 200 photos (the photos are still there), this time more than 1,000 items of content will be removed.
Yes, it is the 1TB free quota that was previously used. Users, after February 5, 2019, Flickr will begin to actively remove more than 100 photos from free members, in order from oldest to newest (if you still care). And it will freeze more than 100 photos from January 8th. A free user account with 1,000 photos makes it impossible to upload new photos.
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· Paying users? Congratulations to all old customers for getting a ticket directly increased back to the original price of US$49.99. The discount is only available to new users ~ (laughing)
Next is the part where the editor compares "X (silencing)". As a user who has subscribed to the Pro paid account since 2014 to this year, this time although Flickr seems to be the same as before A wave of ad-free 1TB capacity when Yahoo took over has been "upgraded" to unlimited storage space (as well as no need to log in through a Yahoo account, some statistics blah blah...), but if you look further ahead, in fact, what the original Flickr provided is Unlimited storage service for US$24.99 (US$44.95 for two years)—well, yes, it was only half price before.
Old users can continue to use the previous subscription price? Sorry, the discount is only available to new users
More The important thing is that the editor who has already bound his account to automatic renewal saw this price increase news and quickly clicked in to see if it was like when Flickr was taken over in the past, old users were directly allowed to renew their previous renewals. Price policy. Unfortunately, the renewal price has been confirmed to be US$49.99.
Wait! Actually, old users were directly renewed at the new price without sending a letter or even using Flickr’s own internal notification function to formally notify them. !? Yes, Flcikr behaved so violently after SmugMug took over. In fact, although the editor has not been affected by the direct renewal of the new price yet, there are already user reactions on the PTT DSLR discussion forum. In August this year It has been directly restored to the original price. It can be seen that Flickr really behaves like this and does not care too much about the mood of old users.
Therefore, the official statement said, "If changes do occur in the future, we will try our best to Truthfully disclose the relevant procedures and provide notice of relevant issues that are important to you. Where? Did I misunderstand something?
The service is not not worth the price, but the official approach does not pay attention to the existing User
To be honest, even at a price of nearly US$50 per year, which is about NT$1,500, it is still cheap compared to other services such as 500px. It is just that this is a rough treatment for old customers, and even directly cuts off the original customers. The limit for free users of 1TB capacity, and does not intend to give too much transition time or a more compromise solution (for example: provide a slightly lower price 1TB capacity solution for previous users? Is this difficult?).
If not The editor has many photos on it, and it is very likely that subsequent reports will need to share the original photos through Flickr, otherwise I will not consider using the Flickr service anymore—in fact, I am still considering whether to switch directly to Google Photo, here I also recommend that you give it a try, because even though the Flickr page mentions that the paid plan is still half the price, it ignores that Google Photos can choose to upload photos up to 16MP with unlimited capacity for "free", not to mention that the videos are not as good as Flickr has a ten-minute limit, and it won’t be available until 2019.
How to download Flickr data
As we talk, it seems that we should really consider grabbing the entire set of photos from Flickr and uploading them to Google Photo or other places (Friends who want to capture pictures directly can refer to this article)? Friends who want to download the complete package can go to the lower right corner of this page (Flickr account settings page) and see "Your Flickr Information" Where, you can choose to apply for information, and then the relevant information will be sent to you through the mailbox - it should be the download URL - the editor has just clicked to get it, and has to wait for the follow-up letter.
The end of an era
From the above various conditions and status, if SmugMug really wants to operate Flickr, I believe that all the plans will be more attractive and have a softer handling method. However, in this way To "continue" this service in this way, everyone should be able to tell whether the attitude of the team that took over is really serious about running the world's largest photographer community.
Since Flickr was taken over by Yahoo, at least it has provided pretty good services. free account offer. However, since then, new features have stagnated, and there has not been much response to the period of substantial growth in sharing on social networking sites. Even so, there are still many users (including the editor myself) who are willing to Continue to pay for use. Entering the era of SmugMug, which is also a photo service, I originally held the expectation that Flickr would finally create new functions and interfaces for image lovers. As a result, not only did the service not improve significantly, but all users received It's such a "straight to the point" treatment. I can only say that if SmugMug really thinks that "Flickr is a good place to connect, discover, and develop photographers and photography enthusiasts."..."Everyone works together here to build an independent "New community, jointly shape the future of photography." We should listen to the voices of users, rather than seeming to always want to inspire everyone's impulse to "close the box".
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