Free Flickr Members please be aware of new limits being imposed

[tandeejay]

ok then, maybe I move my family photos to google drive and leave flickr for my more artistic photos. Hopefully that might cut down significantly on my photos in flickr to below 1k...

[Mark L]

Delete.

[Mary Anne]

Further.
I only use flickr as a way to up load photos to AP to share with you wonderful people here. I will not be paying anything to anyone just to share my photos with you all. So I'll just deal with the 1000 photo limit.

I hope that does not mean all your images from your Bird Threads over the last three years will disappear, like what happened with Members here that had the Free Photobucket Accounts.

[Mark L]

I hope that does not mean all your images from your Bird Threads over the last three years will disappear, like what happened with Members here that had the Free Photobucket Accounts.

I think it means that the last 1000 photos I've posted here will be retained on AP. As I link another 3 the oldest 3 linked will disappear from AP.
I know I post quite a few photos but I'd think there wouldn't be to many interested members going back looking at what I'd posted 2 years back.
(Snooks may be an exception)

[Mary Anne]

I think it means that the last 1000 photos I've posted here will be retained on AP. As I link another 3 the oldest 3 linked will disappear from AP.
I know I post quite a few photos but I'd think there wouldn't be to many interested members going back looking at what I'd posted 2 years back.
(Snooks may be an exception)

I don’t know about that Mark I often search for Birds ID’s as I am sure other Members do.
And believe me it quite a disappointment when the images are missing.

[tandeejay]

I think it means that the last 1000 photos I've posted here will be retained on AP. As I link another 3 the oldest 3 linked will disappear from AP.

No, I think it means if your over 1000 you won't be able to upload new photos and past a certian date they will delete from your oldest to reduce your photos to 1000, but you still wont be able to upload new photos unless you delete photos to make space for more


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[Mark L]

The crap Flickr go on with.
"Flickr at its best is a place to connect, to discover, and to evolve as photographers and lovers of photography. This is the world’s largest photographer-focused community. Together, this newly independent community can shape the future of photography itself."
So let's do this to discourage that then,
"Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download content over the limit. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content actively deleted -- starting from oldest to newest date uploaded -- to meet the new limit."
Yeah, I know.

[ameerat42]

Corporate carp is so dressed up to make it sound believable. Who says double-think is dead?

Stay chooned for the next instalment of gobbledygook!

[farmmax]

I think I should be safe. It has taken 10 years for me to upload my 10 images, so unless they dramatically lower their limit I'll be right for a while

[ameerat42]

So air-nyway, I followed a link which indicated Flickr was owned by Yahoo...
That was good, as I have a Yahoo account

- It was apparently an old link, because it said that Verizon had bought Yahoo. (I know, who are they?)
It went on to say that Flickr was then purchased by SMugMug!

Strike-me-pink! - Another money-go-round

[Bear Dale]

I'm stoked that Flickr is now owned by Smugmug, the future looks bright, much brighter than either under Yahoo or Verizon/Oath.

For me, its still the ultimate photography site.

[ameerat42]

I have 2 Yahoo mail accounts, and when they were taken over by Ver/Oath (Bl... Oafs in our vernacular)
you had to click to accept their T&Cs. So I did, and I did, and I did..., each time I logged into one of them.

Then they sent me a few msgs saying to [...pls click to accept...] So I wrote back and said that I had, many
times, and still did. A week later another such message, and to them another message. FF to yet more messages
from them - and to a tirade! back.

It seems to have abated of late

[Bear Dale]

It will be good when Flickr finally get rid of the Yahoo sign in, its scheduled to happen soon!

[ameerat42]

It will be good when Flickr finally get rid of the Yahoo sign in, its scheduled to happen soon!

Meantime, a happenstance for me: by having a Yahoo account, I automatically have a Flickr account
Well, I tried it and uploaded 2 pics. (- Can't see them in the Photostream yet )

[Bear Dale]

Meantime, a happenstance for me: by having a Yahoo account, I automatically have a Flickr account
Well, I tried it and uploaded 2 pics. (- Can't see them in the Photostream yet )

Can you see them yet? Strange if you can't.

Heres my photostream, if I upload its instantaneous -

https://www.flickr.com/photos/50digital/

[ameerat42]

Hmm! I've managed to get the 3 pics to [a photostream], but it is not named "ameerat42" like I thought it would be.
Instead, it's got this weird moniker: https://www.flickr.com/photos/160711345@N08/

- Who the hecque is 160711345@N08

A test pic from there...
DSC_4388ca-lr by Am Eerat, on Flickr

[Bear Dale]

There's two names showing -

1. Your real name Am Eerat
2. Your Display name ameerat42


If you go into your settings, you can change either.

For a test drive for you, I've left a comment, faved a photo and invited you to add your photo to a group.

[ameerat42]

OK, ta, I see that, but I was thinking about that hex-numerical-looking text in the link. That's where I thought a version of my name would appear.
It's a minor thing, though, as the name appears elsewhere.

- - - Updated - - -

Ridiculous that it took me so long to realise I didn't have to make up a completely new Flickr account
(Just nevva thought about it, actually.)

[JoPho]

I only use Flickr to link photos to the weekly challenges here. No other need for it.
Rather pay you guys for hosting. Perhaps there's an opportunity for you?

[Mark L]

I only use Flickr to link photos to the weekly challenges here. No other need for it.
Rather pay you guys for hosting. Perhaps there's an opportunity for you?

I previously mentioned in this thread that I only use Flickr to link photos to AP. Linking from them Flickr offers more detail than downsizing and uploading directly to AP I've found.