Oh bugger yes, that year went fast.It's coming to that time of the year again ... just had a renewal email.
Now what to do .... if I click cancel account and say it's too expensive they offer 25% reduction but Black Friday is not far away.
I've had no offers, only threats of photo deletions and a 1000 pic limit imposed. I only used Flickr for hosting to post on forums so I've stopped using it.More than about 30 quid and I'll just walk. I've barely used my pro account thi year.
I've had no offers, only threats of photo deletions and a 1000 pic limit imposed. I only used Flickr for hosting to post on forums so I've stopped using it.
the forums I use all have their own photo attachment feature. I used Flickr for one as it showed the full image rather than a thumbnail, but a forum upgrade stopped that so there was no advantage to using Flickr. If I want to share individual pics with most non-photographers I'm sorry to say that Farcebook is the easiest way, occasionally Dropbox.I'm on one of their 'alpha' panels, and it's very plain that they really don't get that many aren't interested in extra stats on their pictures or special pro forums, and would rather pay about £35 for hosting up to around 10,000 images rather than truly unlimited storage. There's no 'value' they can possibly add to their basic image-hosting product that would make most hobbyists want to spend more.
I'm sure they make these prices up as they go alongJust went in to mine it said £60 - after saying cancel they gave me a price of £33 fo the year which I took.
You can select "You" -> "Organize", select as many as you want, even all of them, drag them into the workspace and then select "Edit" -> "Delete".I'd welcome them doing the first cull
1stly the unlimited storage facility.Can anyone give a strong reason why a pro account is worth having?
This for me too really.I keep mine, mainly because I've always used it and I've got over 11,000 photos up there covering the past 15 years. My entire digital photography journey is on there and I guess I'm loathe to lose all that. Whether that's worth the cost, probably not but I can't bring myself to hit the cancel button for some reason. There's nowhere else I could host all of those images and make them publically available.
Doubt it TBH, mine were all left intact for over 2 years and it was only me that deleted them all by closing the account.most of my images will get deleted no doubt,
Im with Virgin as they’re the only fast broadband provider we can get in our street. Other providers go to the next street along but only Virgin came down our street. That means it’s either Virgin or return to 2MB/s download 0.9MB/s upload which we can’t as we both work from home some of the time. We got the same letter from Virgin with the speed upgrade. Upping the download speed to 130MB/s is nice but doesn’t really make much difference in reality. Doubling the upload speed from 10MB/s to 20MB/s was much more appreciated.the latest one was Virgin broadband. Sent me a renewal notice for £48, so I rang the "thinking of leaving you" line, and asked what they could do. Nothing, long story about how much better than BT they are, and how their costs have gone up etc etc. I said, never mind just let it go onto the non-contract monthly charge until I have had a new connection installed. They asked who, and I told them City Fibre had installed cables, and I had a connection at the front fence waiting, and they were £25 a month. Before I could think further, I had it with Virgin for £25 a month Today I got a letter saying they were upping our speed to 125 MB at no charge
Mine finished again last month too. Had the 20%/30% black Friday offer but it's not enough to be worth it. I don't think they want to get people on board with pro unless they can make a high value sale now, and the site is likely to become more advert orientated. It will be surprising if they are still in business in 5 years because they can't find a sweet spot for both commercial and customer needs.I cancelled Flickr pro last month,
That's curious. I'm not deleting anything, but my pro account is now the freebies one. And I've been told that my older images will be deleted, to 1000. I'll watch and see.Doubt it TBH, mine were all left intact for over 2 years and it was only me that deleted them all by closing the account.
I'm sure you are right.I don't think they want to get people on board with pro unless they can make a high value sale now, and the site is likely to become more advert orientated.
I was thinking the same earlier, but within a shorter timescale.It will be surprising if they are still in business in 5 years because they can't find a sweet spot for both commercial and customer needs.
I was told the same but never happened.I've been told that my older images will be deleted, to 1000. I'll watch and see.
Thanks, Jeff, I'll leave that one as is then, plenty of space on my free one, when that gets filled, I'll start another.There not deleting the images ,but if your over 1000 you can’t add any unless your PRO ,
I didn't see a restriction on download time, but there is a restriction on downloading the zip file ( 10 days) when they send you a message.Mine finished a few days ago but I got the download links before the end ... was downloading the zip files before the subscription ended and the speed was fine but haven't used the computer since. Went back to finish the downloads and it looks like they have severely restricted the speed so no way I can finish the downloads in the time they give before you have to ask again (which you can't if you aren't a pro member any longer)
I did exactly the same, and have done for previous years, and had the £33-odd option.However, I went down the cancel route out of interest, clicked "Too expensive and immediately got an offer for a reduction which I snapped up. Confirmation message was "Your plan will automatically change to a Annual Plan on December 22, 2022 and you’ll be charged £32.99, including £5.50 in tax.".
Only you can answer that.Got to be worth it?
The archive and sharing option is worth it for me. I've got over 11k photos there now (I do also have them backed up on a cloud backup service and locally on x2 external drives (paranoia and all that)!I did exactly the same, and have done for previous years, and had the £33-odd option.
This year I just got the "1000 limit on free accounts" message.
Only you can answer that.
I don't mind the adverts on the free ones, I just blank them, I don't "see" them.
I'm not into, and never have been, the stats and all the other stuff that some people find essential.
I've only got circa 3000 in there, and they are all still sharable. According to a couple of other posters, they don't delete the images.The archive and sharing option is worth it for me. I've got over 11k photos there now (I do also have them backed up on a cloud backup service and locally on x2 external drives (paranoia and all that)!
FYI There is always a flickr group associated with that. (closed at the moment)And of course I use to for the 52 Challenge.....