It is not exactly usual for major services on the internet, that are owned by big companies, to announce that they will be going dark for a considerable amount of time. Nevertheless, Yahoo’s photo-sharing site Flickr announced today that tomorrow […]
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If you enjoyed Windows 8’s central Photos app that not only stored your local images but also those from other sites, you might be disappointed with Windows 8.1, if a post in Microsoft’s forums is any indication. After a commenter noticed that Facebook and Flickr integration was gone, one of Redmond’s employees said it was no longer necessary since other apps (including one arriving soon from Facebook) can now do that, unlike when Windows 8 was first launched. The spokesperson added that Microsoft “welcome(s) Flickr to do the same” and recommended the People app as another way to “socially engage” with your photos. Subsequent commenters felt differently, with one summing up the sentiment by saying the OS was moving backwards from its Hub pinnings and “forc(ing) you to be app-centric (like Android or iOS) instead of content-centric.”
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Many criticized a pre-Marissa Mayer Yahoo for doing little to integrate acquisitions with its core services, even when they were popular services like Del.icio.us. We can’t accuse the company of negligence today, as it just added simple Flickr photo sharing to Yahoo Mail. Those drafting messages just have to tap an arrow to attach files from their photo streams, and they can sign up for Flickr on the spot. While there’s only so many of us who could use Flickr sharing right now, Yahoo teases that there are more Mail upgrades in the pipeline — it’s not done fighting Gmail and Outlook just yet.
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While Flickr did seem generous by offering free users 1TB of space as long as they’re willing to put up with ads, it also got rid of the much-beloved Flickr Pro option that awarded unlimited storage for only $25 a year. Now the only upgrade options are to cough up $50 annually to go ad-free or $500 a year for 2TB instead of one. Many existing Pro users, thinking they would be forced one way or another, took to social media and Flickr forums to vent their frustrations at the potential loss of that limitless space.
However, Yahoo has confirmed to us that existing Flickr Pro users will continue to enjoy unlimited storage as long as they pay $25 a year to renew their subscription. In addition, we have word that there are no plans for Pro renewals to go away. There’s also a FAQ posted on Flickr that clarifies the issue, stating “recurring Pro users currently have the ability to renew.” That said, if you do let your subscription expire, your account will automatically be downgraded to the free version, so Pro users would do best to keep on the renewal ball if they want their years of precious memories to stay on the service.
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Flickr’s one of the elder statesmen of the online photo sharing world, but in recent years its UI has grown a bit long in the tooth when compared to the eye candy provided by other kids on the social sharing block. That’s all changed as of today, as Marissa Mayer’s team has overhauled Flickr’s look on the web and in its Android app. Out goes the old layout, where text and white space commanded almost as much real estate as your photos, and in comes a tiled layout that’s nothing but images.
Gallery: Flickr web redesign screenshots
This week amid word that the company had purchased Tumblr to give its youth segment a boost, the company made use of the press it’d been given for a couple boosts to Flickr. Having acquired Flickr back in 2005 to the tune of $35 million USD, it’s no wonder that a $1.1 billion dollar cost for Tumblr continues to hold sway over the press – especially before it was formally announced. Here with Flickr, Yahoo is bringing on a full a terabyte in storage to compete with Google’s base free offering and makes with a new Android app to boot.
The new Flickr app for Android takes on what’d been released earlier this year for iOS and retrofits it to the Google-made mobile operating system. Flickr’s main draw this week is the ability to retain the full quality of each photo your device takes in full-sized automatic uploads. Announced this week for Google’s social network was a boost in space as well – but without full-sized saving on lock.
Above: Flickr’s new web-based user interface. Below: out with the old!
As Yahoo gives a base boost of 1TB of space, Google+ Photo uploads sits at 15GB, split between Gmail, Google Drive, and Google+ Photos. Yahoo continues to compete against new Google+ photo abilities run by Snapseed as well, working with home-grown instant-fix abilities and retro filters galore.
The Android app works with the endless scrolling abilities that the internet interface also now employs, making full use of the full-sized photo deployment that the Flickr ecosystem will flaunt forevermore. Both the web interface and the Android UI have been updated today alongside an iOS update that adds a few bug fixes coming soon. It would appear that all things follow iOS design, in this case.
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Marissa Mayer has announced some big news around Flickr today: starting right now, Flickr users get 1TB of storage for free, “enough for a lifetime of photos” she says (that’s 500,000 full-resolution photos according to Yahoo’s estimate). “Flickr users […]
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