Photo hosting - Flickr does a Photobucket

[AndyT]

Many members will remember the sudden disappearance of thousands of photos from this forum and elsewhere when Photobucket suddenly changed their terms.
Under their new owners, Flickr is now going a similar way - users with more than a thousand photos will see the "excess" deleted.

More info in many news media:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Flickr&t=ofa

Anyone who uses Flickr heavily might like to start shifting elsewhere or selectively pruning their collection. You could also choose to pay, or keep under the 1000 photos limit.

That free Terabyte really was too good to be true.

 

[Bodgers]

Many members will remember the sudden disappearance of thousands of photos from this forum and elsewhere when Photobucket suddenly changed their terms.
Under their new owners, Flickr is now going a similar way - users with more than a thousand photos will see the "excess" deleted.

More info in many news media:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Flickr&t=ofa

Anyone who uses Flickr heavily might like to start shifting elsewhere or selectively pruning their collection. You could also choose to pay, or keep under the 1000 photos limit.

That free Terabyte really was too good to be true.

I was never a fan of 'photo hosting' services for putting images on forums, but I have been a flickr user for over 10 years. It has always been a great site for good photography. The way you can search by camera/lens is also pretty usefu if you are into hardware. The app actually does a better job of being Instagram than Instagram does. I guess it is all down hill from here for Flickr.

I know there are size limits to the built in forum image hosting but at least it is always going to be tied to the forum. Nothing more annoying than browsing old posts and seeing dead photobucket et al links.

 

[thetyreman]

I'm pretty sure they've done it because of people abusing the system, in some ways I think the new version is better, limiting them to 1000 means only showing my best photos and work, but I'm on around 600 and don't post anywhere near as often I once did.

 

[Bodgers]

I'm pretty sure they've done it because of people abusing the system, in some ways I think the new version is better, limiting them to 1000 means only showing my best photos and work, but I'm on around 600 and don't post anywhere near as often I once did.

Well it took them a long time to act on that because it has been like this for 5 years!

Agreed that the site is about good photography though.

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[RogerS]

.....The app actually does a better job of being Instagram than Instagram does. I guess it is all down hill from here for Flickr.

I know there are size limits to the built in forum image hosting but at least it is always going to be tied to the forum. Nothing more annoying than browsing old posts and seeing dead photobucket et al links.

So stump up a bit of money and problem solved.

I really can't stand people who take advantage of a free service and then bitch when it goes away.