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- jdbmac, on 10/12/2007, -7/+43Flickr is amazing!
- gamabunta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I have a Pro account and I bet if you hit 1TB in a month they wouldn't be so friendly.
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I really wish the industry as a whole would eliminate all uses of the word "unlimited." You know its not unlimited. They know its not unlimited.
Stop branding it as such. There's always a limit. - hman2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Small correction for the story's description: all users have unlimited space, however it's the bandwidth that's limited. So it should say that pro users now have unlimited bandwidth.
- chroko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Flickr has "private sharing", where you can have a set of photos marked as private, yet generate a magic address that allows anyone to view the set directly. This meets your requirements: not public, not viewable by your friends - yet still accessible if you have the magic address.
To do this, go to the set's opening page and click the "share this" button near the top-left of the screen - it'll walk you through generating a URL you can send to people to share those photos.
You can also link directly to the photo (just like ImageShack, etc) - view the large version of the photo and follow the directions on the bottom of the page (but be careful as it's against their terms of service if you don't also link to the photo's page when you share it out like that).
/Pro user, very happy with Flickr! - luchid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Great news since pictures from my beloved Canon A620 (around 5 MB each) were filling that limit quite quickly.
Google should do the same and get rid of that stupid 6GB limit for PAID accounts, which are like 25 bucks each. That's right. Only 6 GB for 25 bucks! It's ridiculous! Come on Google!
Flickr rules! - michaelyurechko, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I love me some flickr :-) , I was at 96% last night. Glad to know I got more.
- oslointhesummer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I wish they'd let us up the # of photos in our stream, and maybe another photoset or two.
How about lifetime pro accounts for $100? That'd be nice.
Complaints aside, I still love flickr. - bengarland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7One thing I have been waiting for from Flickr for forever is nested sets. Despite this being probably the #1 request in their forums for at least 2 years, they still haven't given us "Sets of sets" (as it is commonly called). I was actually surprised that they didn't have this from the beginning.
For example, you can't make a set called "Latin America" and then within that set have another one called "Costa Rica" and another for "Nicaragua". And then furthur, in the "Costa Rica" set you could have "San Jose" and "Rainforest". This is not possible. You have to create multiple separate sets that are not linked or nested or connected in any way. It sucks!
As much as I love Flickr, I can't believe they have been adding stuff like the Maps API, and the ability to use Flickr on your mobile phone (who does that?), and stupid statistics about digital camera usage, and all this other junk, while STILL not giving us some basic obvious functionality like nested sets. Sometimes I feel like they are trying to "wow!" us instead of giving us what we actually need. - m3mn0n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8This news kicks ass. *Pro user*
- adame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'd absolutely love more photos in the photostream for free accounts. Two hundred simply isn't enough.
- ekosystem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6From 20 to 100mb for the free account users. But there are still only 200 pictures that are displayed online. So it isn't really useful.
- ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The more you upload, the more disk space they will add.
I guarantee you that they have and/or will add more disk space than you will ever be able to upload. - bengarland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It's $25/year or about $2 per month. Why don't you just buy a Pro account if you need more? It's like the bargain of the century, really. I never understood that the freeloaders complain that x number of photos or sets is "not enough". It's FREE. STFU.
- brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Although I've loved their tagging, I havent really cared for Flickr for sharing private photos from a free account - the uploads were too small, you could only create 3 (!#$@?) sets (which made sharing a PIA - to share an event with others you needed to tag all the photos in the event similarly and then email a URL to a tag search on your photos, which is obtuse and lame).
I also am not a big fan of any of their display methods, most are unappealing and some are downright awkward to navigate. I would prefer a usenetbinaries.com-type gallery.
But 100mb a month might change my mind... - sherb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Wow this is great! I was wondering why my upload percentage went from 54% to 11%
- JohnnyHuh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'd never even come close to my upload limit on my pro account but this is a nice gesture.
- placain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sorry, bzzt, wrong. It's byte-for-byte identical.
- pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Do you have enough bandwidth to upload a terabyte in a month? My Comcast cable only does about 40kb/sec max, and assuming maximum upload speed every second of the day for a month, I would total up at about 101GB.
- tLove, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6A Flickr pro account was one of the best things I ever bought online :)
...and now unlimited uploads? woot! - hopesfall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yahoo!
- bengarland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why don't you just pony up the $25/year for unlimited? (Even when it was 2GB/mo it was practically unlimited then. Filling up 2GB/mo with photos is hard to do, even if you have a 10mp camera.)
For $2/mo you get unlimited backup storage of all of your pictures, plus great organizational tools, and a huge community of photographers to learn and share with. It's a bargain. - newfoundnoise82, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4thank you flickr. i knew my pro account was a good investment.
- jaxxon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3What would be REALLY cool is if they increased the max size for any given photo. I think the max for Pro is 10 megs.... and I have loads of files that are larger than that. As megapixels continue to increase, the file size limit will be more of a problem.
Yay Flickr for upping the bandwidth! Very cool.. I'm a huge Flickr nut. :) - Daveecee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2MAYBE I CAN GET THEIR ATTENTION WITH LARGE CAPITAL LETTERS
- PatrickX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2photos on xanga.com already had these higher limits, plus you can upload video and audio
- TortfeasorG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The only reason I haven't used flickr more is because of that stupid 20mb limit. I've always been afraid to casually upload pictures because i didn't want to waste my space in case i had something i *really* wanted to upload later. I'll definitely use this more to share my pictures now! Good times.
- ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3So current Pro members get the new limits?
- williamw, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Thats why I was so happy, I'm getting the pro Flickr account for xmas, and I ran out of space yesterday, then today, 11% used!
- Anpheus, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9Yeah, Google is a little behind on the upload limits. But Picasa is truly a superior product, and it's too bad Google didn't grab Flickr and integrate it with Picasa.
- Scatropolis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Create a second account?
- itsmattadams, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Flickr Rocks! I hate when I go over the 20MB limit.
- jonnyblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Everything has a begining... There's a community building there too. Anyway, I don't want to change opinions, I was just encouraging competition.
- ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Is there any way to use flickr like everyone else does, as a photo sharing, archiving, etc; but also use it as a quick image uploader, like imageshack? For those quick uploads, I don't want them to be browsable by my friends (or anyone who views my photos), but I need them to be public.
Any ideas? - redrighthand, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Of course this comes after I uploaded my 4,000 images, but it will come in so handy in the future. I gotta see their server rooms where they store all this data
- damagemanual, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Couldn't agree more!
I'm at 150 so far. At some point soon, I'm going to need to start picking images to remove. I know anything past two hundred is still on their servers but I've yet to find info on how to access them. Does anyone know? - djchester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know why they are digging you down jonnyblue. Zooomr is great and we all have to start in a small scale.. Also the Zooomr geotagging is far better than flickr's.
- gamabunta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ pcgeek101
That's what college bandwidth is for ;)
p.s.
I have Comcast w/ the same upload speeds too. - JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*****. Have NASA open an account and upload all of their photos. In a single day. You're telling me they'd allow it?
OK How about if it wasn't NASA but someone else with the same amount (and popularity) of photos. Maybe they would allow it.
What if it was a random Joe posting the same amount of photos, just lower importance to the general populous, say, family photos. Would they still allow it? I don't think so.
"Unlimited" is very limited.
Infinity cannot be obtained. Ever. Case in point: If I made a project where everyone took a snapshot of every second on their webcam and put it on flickr..it would not stay "unlimited." - DrewBlood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I actually have 2 accounts, one for my personal pics. That account is pro and I love it. My second account is for live performance pics for a group I'm in. I'm not sure if getting another pro account is in my future, but I agree that upping that 200 picture limit would be awfully nice.
I'm not a freeloader. I'd love to wrap both accounts into one but the only way I can see this happening is if I can link to one photoset and then nest others inside of it. - culbeda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow. Not a single "My Friend Flickr" joke...
Either everyone is really young or has shown incredible restraint... - bengarland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes.
- johnjeffrey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Check out Fotki.com, they have had unlimited storage/bandwith for years now
- Scatropolis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3But it is a shorter than "as much as we see fit".
- piratearggghhh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I noticed that today and thought I had mistaken it for 2GB for non-pro users and it has always been unlimited. This is excellent!
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http://astore.amazon.com/barbiegifts-20 - Genista, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0damagemanual, AFAIK you can access images that have disappeared because of the limit on numbers in free accounts if you place them in a public group you create. They will not disappear from groups you posted them to.
- csimpkins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sweeeet! I was JUST figuring out the best way to upload 6 gigs of pictures from my wedding!
- thumperings, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I Hate FLickr until they allow fullscreen views .. how IDIOTIC that they dont.
- macbth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ericnmu
You can set who views your photos on flickr
You have friends,family and public .
Make family your own and make friends (friends and family) and have public for everybody else.
Also for everyone who is complaining about full screen.
If you have an account and sign in you can go to all sizes and see very large photos- bigger then your screen.
So sign in and look for all sizes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dembicer/126630489/ -
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