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    KspraydadRhett Jones
    11/02/18 11:05am

    Dont really need to remember the login...it was a YAHOO! property...there are plenty of lists available on the net that I should be able to just look up my credentials on.

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    Urambo TauroRhett Jones
    11/02/18 12:01pm

    Back up your photos. Do it for yourself. Do it for the forums.

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      YALE70Urambo Tauro
      11/02/18 12:11pm

      Photobucket is such a bag of shit. I remember when it pulled free hosting and didn’t even bother to notify anyone.

      At least Flickr seems to be giving some kind of heads up.

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      btm231YALE70
      11/03/18 5:29pm

      So much stuff forever lost because I was super young when I first started using it (15yrs ago?) and had a ton of crap I forgot about and never backed up properly (or have on forgotten/dead HDDs.) Complete horse shit indeed.

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    Ninety-9Rhett Jones
    11/02/18 12:59pm

    From the site:

    Free members will still be able to participate fully in our community. Free members with more than 1,000 photos uploaded to Flickr will have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download photos over the 1,000 limit. After January 8, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr.

    It doens’t appear (hopefully isn’t the situation) that Flikr is going to just start wiping old photos from existence. For example, existing users with 3,000 photos aren’t just going to have 2,000 photos disappear at random.

    Instead, their 3,000 pre-existing photos will likely remain but the ability to add more photos will be disabled until the user upgrades or does a manual purge of their own content.

    In either case, Gizmodo should reach out to Smugmug for clarification. Seems like a quick way for Smugmug to make enemies. I’ve been a smugmug customer for years, but if they’re so hell bent on purging millions of people’s photos just to force a paid ecosystem, I’m out.  That’s just bad policy and bad business.

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      burner'downNinety-9
      11/02/18 1:21pm

      From Flickr, emphasis mine, at https://www.flickr.com/lookingahead/?utm_campaign=flickr-lookingahead&utm_medium=PR:

      Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download content over the limit. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content actively deleted — starting from oldest to newest date uploaded — to meet the new limit.

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      Ninety-9burner'down
      11/05/18 10:03am

      That sucks. Considering how many accounts are abandoned by the owner, but still used by people passing through, I wouldn’t be surprised if Smugmug ends up deleting 75% of Flikr’s image library.

      I end up on Flikr a lot during a google image search. I’m certain that a LOT of users have over 1000 pictures, and the majority of them wouldn’t be willing to pay up for a subscription service.

      Same thing happened to Photobucket, they adopted a paid model after growing an enormous user base. I dumped Photobucket years ago, and they faded off into obscurity.

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    TommyRhett Jones
    11/03/18 12:13am

    I switched from Flickr to Google Photos free option a couple years ago. Looks like that decision paid off. I have about 200GB of home movies and photos uploaded (~35,000 files) FOR FREE (unless you count however they might be monetizing them and spying on me without my consent or knowledge). Yeah, the pictures can be compressed to <16MP, but that doesn’t really effect me at all. My photos are either from years ago before digital resolutions were even that high, or from my family’s iphones which are 12MP at most anyway.

    It actually seems too good to be true, so like Flickr I’m sure the free Google Photo party will come to an end eventually too, but IMHO it’s easily the best option right now.

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    TheLaughinKipperRhett Jones
    11/02/18 1:10pm

    I’d bother. If nothing else, $50 a year for unlimited photo storage sounds OK to me. But a quick Google search is already showing me other similar services with less of a checkered past. I’m thinking 500px. Any recommendations?

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      peanutbuttermellytimeTheLaughinKipper
      11/02/18 2:15pm

      If you have an Amazon Prime account, you can use Amazon Photos which is included with it (can store unlimited number of high resolution photos). I also like Dropbox.

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      TheLaughinKipperpeanutbuttermellytime
      11/02/18 3:10pm

      Wow. Amazon slipped my radar. I live in Spain and until recently Prime included little more than free 1-day shipping. I think it was only a couple months ago that we got the full(?) treatment (together with a price hike). Installing the app as I write this. Thank you.

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    gommerthusRhett Jones
    11/02/18 11:18am

    oh well so much for yet another one of Yahoo’s old services. It was useful to serve as my place for my junk photos but actually if they’re gonna delete my collection and keep just the most recent 1000 photos, hey they’re actually doing me a favor.

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    YALE70Rhett Jones
    11/02/18 12:01pm

    So is this going to be the "Photobucket Meltdown 2.0"?

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      keithYALE70
      11/02/18 4:42pm

      Yep, pretty much. A crapload of links in enthusiast websites like pentaxforums.com are going to go dead. Me, I have 2,700 photos in Flickr and my primary online workflow revolves around it. That said, I’m irked enough that I might just rip everything up and start over with my own personal photo website. At least then, I wouldn’t be at the mercy of someone else’s TOS.

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      YALE70keith
      11/02/18 5:55pm

      Just curious, how would that work? Would you run a separate server and have it hosted so you can access them anywhere?

      On I off note, I read earlier that Photobucket actually got a new CEO and they slashed their ridiculous pricing on top of renewing all the old links. I don’t know how much it’ll do them since it still requires a subscription to host new links but at least they seemed to have fixed their arguably biggest screwup.

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    The Ghost of James Madison's Rage BonerRhett Jones
    11/02/18 12:11pm

    There’s no hope. I deleted my Yahoo account years ago after their big data breach.

    But I don’t think I came close to uploading 1000 photos. I’ve got my main stash in Dropbox. 

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    QGRhett Jones
    11/02/18 10:54am

    thanks for the heads up! Good thing I got amazon drive.

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    sTalkinggoat knows Nikki Minaj's cousin's friend's ballsRhett Jones
    11/02/18 11:24am

    Any tips on how to recover a Flickr account when you know longer have access to the email address?

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      sniperlogicsTalkinggoat knows Nikki Minaj's cousin's friend's balls
      11/02/18 11:58am

      That happened to me. Create a new account then search for your old username. After that, download your old photos like your some ‘creepy stalker you’ from the future. i can’t remember if you need to have them public.

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      sTalkinggoat knows Nikki Minaj's cousin's friend's ballssniperlogic
      11/02/18 12:09pm

      That worked! Thanks dude. 

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