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Flickr,.. hmmm,.. not sure yet, but for now I have nothing to worrie yet, since I have around 500 images there.
I will slectively upload images to Flickr to prolongue the process, but when I reach the 1000 images, I'll decide what to do.
I have another free site where I upload my bigger sets and they have no limitations, but it's for storage purely.
On flickr I still have contacts I'd like to keep,... (this sounds like I'm going to pay,.. but I'll have to get that pass the missis first,..
Could you tell me what other site do you use? I don't really need anything fancy, just a place to store my little screenlings.
Here is a link to it. It's nothing fancy, but it get's the job done and does have has some handy features also.
Somewhere on the open sky the stars blinked.
Stars. Fairy lights. Eyes of gods.
A superb story and you always do so well with the imagery (images and metaphors), the emotions of the characters, and the mental twists and turns of your characters.
I was too annoyed by SmugMug to really want to give the satisfaction of paying. I think they should have locked accounts from uploading over 1000 images and only unlocked if paid. And if no activity on the account after a year then purged. Or something beyond - pay us money or we will delete your work. They also made it very clear they are for photographers not screen artists or imagery beyond photos.
Unfortunately Flickr is pretty much the best service for managing images. In the end I deleted just over 13,000+ images and 7 years of work. I have my images down to about 250 now. I also created an Imgur account which I will probably use for story images and the like. Flickr, for now, I am using for selected images. I am also debating just making some dummy accounts on Flickr to host things.
In the end you get what you pay for (free) and I don't blame them for not wanting to be the Internets image storage attic. But how they approached the whole thing really annoyed me. Over it now though. Funny thing is I have been a premium member in the past and was thinking about doing it again as a way to show appreciation ... then they did this.
Ah well sometimes purging is a good thing even though it means 90% of my posts on Nexus now have lots of white blocks with an X in them where I once had images. Only my posts back to September are still around I think.
I understand the emotional response to the new management; the change was so abrupt, not to mention their marketing really failed at making it look appealing. I got annoyed, too.
I'm sorry to hear you deleted so much of your work - they may have been just screenshots, but the sentimental value cannot be measured. I don't have as many images as you did (only about 5,000), so maybe I'll manage to transfer them somewhere else before the time is up. I'll see.
I will wind up paying for Flickr as well. The free 1TB had to end eventually and I have way too much stuff on there linked up to move.
That's exactly my line of thinking. I just don't want to lose my screenlings - it would ruin all my sets, not to mention the sentimental value they have. So, if I don't figure out anything else, I'll close my eyes, clench my teeth, and pay up
About Flickr, I was always on Imgur; my Flickr account is pretty much abandoned...
Imgur, huh? Gotta take a look around there.
As for Flickr? I dunno, I have only about 350 images or so on their, but I do know I lost a ton of images when ImageShack did the same thing. So, might pay, but more likely, I'll just host 'em all on DeviantArt.
I'm thinking about changing the hosting site (dA is not an option though: I don't want a gallery, I just want a dumpster for my screenies
All the above and with your beautifully epic writing and illustrations, im reading this and im sooo immersed, GIVE ME MORE O.O!!!!
I cant decide on a favorite because they all are soooo good, therefore they all are my favorite
I don't use Flickr very often but still I wouldn't pay $50 per year.
I'm not a fan of paying for what used to be free, either
Flickr: Not happy at all with the change. And the way they did it tells me, if you are no photographer you are not welcome.
I have about 800 images there and when I look how many storage I use, I can see that I use 0,0 % from 1TB. Next year the same images will make out 80% from what I'm allowed to.
The size of images vary. So I took 100 images to calculate the average size my images have (1920x1080 jpg). The result was 757kB. For easier calculating lets say 1MB. So 1000 images will make nearly 1 GB storage.
That means at the end:
Actually I have to pay when I want to use more than 1 TB storage.
Next year I have already to pay when I want to use more than 1 GB storage.
So in the long run I will leave Flickr.
Yeah, I was considering leaving, too. But the mere thought of transferring all my images to another site gives me goosebumps, and not the good kind. Also, Flickr was always so comfortable to use! I hope I'll figure this out soon.
I'm the kind of guy that keeps deleting stuff because I do not like it anymore. Sometimes within five minutes. For the few series I have here on the Nexus I have a second account on Flickr. Works for me. You can have 50 series of this size on such an account.