Flickr

[RobDickinson]

Smugmug bought Flickr a while ago, now we see part of the plan going forward.

Pro increases to $50 a year.

Free accounts limited to 1000 photos and they are going to delete any extra.

There's very little added to make pro more attractive just a huge fk you to their existing free community.

I won't have my photos held hostage to pay them every year so I'll be deleting them all shifting elsewhere.

Sadly this will break every photo link I've used in forums etc.

[RobDickinson]

DibblyDobbler said:

What are you looking at as an alternative Rob?

No idea. Might self host. I have my own server already just need to find decent gallery software

[RobDickinson]

Doesn't Smugmug offer that for less right now?

[RobDickinson]

Yep the ball breaker is that rather than just stop you from uploading more they will actively delete your photos.

As for similar services, Google photos, 500px etc all would provide similar service for free.

[RobDickinson]

I already pay for a webserver for many other reasons, have had for years, I have stupid amounts of storage and bandwidth so that won't be a problem.

Online storage is very very cheap if you need more too.

[RobDickinson]

Lemming Train said:

You won't be embedding your photos in forum threads with Google photos and 500px is $48 per year.

500px 20 free uploads a week would be fine for me.

[RobDickinson]

https://chevereto.com/free looks great

looks like it has an Api i can use to upload, and use the flickr api to download so that should b quick.

[RobDickinson]

noell35 said:

£4 a month? Not a lot really is it? Maybe check down the back of the sofa

Sure its not much but what does it offer me?

The only thing pro offers me I was ever interested in was the advanced stats and I refused to pay for that when it was $24.99 because its not worth it.

[RobDickinson]

I'm assuming chevereto is multi user if so I'll add account creation link on here for PH uses

[RobDickinson]

Plenty of bulk download tools I just need to script up an api call for chevereto to upload them once I have that installed.

[RobDickinson]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

I wonder how long they will grandfather Flickr Pro?

They ended that in August.

[RobDickinson]

work in progress :
http://link.photo/

[RobDickinson]

eltawater said:

Just use the official request my data option under account settings!

Done last week , got my files yesterday, 4 zip files, one of json with data, 3 of image files.