Flickr Problem, Can you Help?
Posted on 26 May 2007
I’m trying to upload photos from my graduation on my flickr account, but it seems that I’ve run out of space on the free account.
Should I:
- Use a different service? (if so, which one?)
- Pay $25/year for flickr pro? (last, last resort)
- …
I really don’t want to pay. Google should set up a free photo service, everyone would use it just like they did Gmail. And flickr would most likely go down because they charge. Or they would need to stop charging. This is a bit uncool of flickr.
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May 26th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Why not put up the “Buy me a Beer” plugin and see if some folks will throw in a few bucks via paypal! I just put it up on my site as “Buy me a Bucks” (see the project page sidebar).
May 27th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Dude… I echo what Doug says. But Google does have a photo sharing service. It’s called Picasa Web Albums and it gives 1GB space. It looks better now than when I first found it.
Last year they called it “Hello”, and the service required me to use Picasa to catalogue my photos before I could upload them. Now it seems that Hello is now just for transferring photos peer-to-peer, and Picasa Web Albums has an upload feature.
Good luck with whatever direction you post.
Your friend from Canada.
May 27th, 2007 at 12:35 am
1. facebook - although uploading takes forever
2. photorgy
although both have limited viewership since you have to sign in
May 27th, 2007 at 12:56 am
Write your own photo sharing service Tony. Make it all Web 7.0 (scratch that web 7.2), you’ll make hella money and be the next Kevin Rose!
May 27th, 2007 at 3:03 am
Doug: I love that plugin! I just might install it…
Tony: great point about Picasa, forgot about that. The reason I negated that service before is because they had no Mac version, but I guess they do now. I will give that a shot…
Floria: both great photo sharing services, but looking for something anybody can view.
Charn: write me the service. :)
May 27th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Without disregarding the previous comments, Google Webalbums is essentially a very different service to Flickr. Flickr offers the user a photo stream which can be linked and intertwined with others through tags, groups and contacts, Webalbums is purely a photo hosting facility.
They are both great services, but are not interchangeable in my mind, as they serve vastly different purposes. Depending on what your needs are, Webalbums may be a suitable alternative, and it certainly offers more space than Flickr.
However, the real nitty-gritty issue is that Yahoo! are rather tight about their facilities for non-paying members. They don’t limit the number of photos you can upload over your lifetime (although there is a monthly limit), they just limit the number of photos that you can access in your stream. That’s rather tight. They let you take up their storage space, but just don’t let you access it. It would be a fair argument if they didn’t have the storage space and hence you were paying for the privilege, but to treat it as a commodity then charge to use it is rather cheeky.
You could sign up for more than one Flickr account and cross-link them, but i don’t think that there is any other service (so far) which can rival Flickr on the community based aspects (which is essentially why it is so popular).
May 27th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Tony, I’m working on something right now (numerical analysis in a web browser, eat it MatLab!) but I should be done with the heavy coding on that in about a month or so and I’m down to write a photo sharing service after that.
Plan out what features you want for the photo service and what we can offer people that flicker et. all don’t and let’s do it!
May 27th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Fergus: Welcome to geekwhat and thanks for the detailed explanation! You make a really good point about the fact that flickr still offers the space, one must just pay to see it. Creating another account would be tedious. I may just pay for flickr.
Charn: Talk about being proactive! I am impressed.
May 28th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Hey Tony, I had the same problem. Right now I’m using Myphotoalbum. The interface kind of sucks compared to Flickr but it has unlimited space, an easy upload tool and is open to anybody. I’ll probably end up paying for Flickr too, someday…
May 28th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Good on you guys! I’ve still not succumbed to the temptation as it’s $25 per year! I use one Flickr account for my personal photos and just limit them to below 200 (after all…who really wants to look through more than 200 of someone’s photos!), but i also use it for business and have about 3/4 accounts which i use to host photos so i can embed them in other places without generating the bandwidth or server space on my servers.
@Douglas: Nice plugin…think i might get that onto my site too!
May 28th, 2007 at 5:58 am
I don’t see why paying $25/year is a bad idea. If you will be transferring your photos to another service, you will spend more time than $25 is worth. Now that you have graduated, time is money.
May 28th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
amazon s3.
Storage
$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer
$0.10 per GB - all data uploaded
how can you go wrong?
May 29th, 2007 at 9:13 am
I looked at Fergus’ flickr album, and I must admit the features used for managing albums of tagged images is most impressive. Plus, flickr started in Vancouver, so way cool. I echo the thought that you could set up multiple albums for different purposes. I don’t think it’s against flickr’s terms of service to do so, and a number of users must do it.
The $25 advantage is that all photos for one user are stored together with the same user name, and $2/month is a small price to pay to keep the service running.
I used webalbums to store photos I don’t want to host personally, but make available for websites. This worked for an anonymous blog I maintained where I ragged on an old job.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:59 am
I’m very tempted to pay for Flickr. $2 a month really is not that bad……..
July 27th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
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