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Ok, I like flickr. Really, really I do. But I'm currently rather annoyed at them.
Krissy started me on it. She has a pro account and it was really neat to be able to keep up with her life via photostream. It wasn't as good as being able to be hang out and do the stuff with her, but it's much better than email!
Over the summer I had uploaded some pictures- not too many because at first I was using the crap basic uploader and because I had the free account with the bandwidth limit on uploading. But then I got an email from yahoo saying they were getting rid of yahoo photos to just stick with flickr. They said that they would transfer any photos I had on yahoo photos to a selection of places, flickr being one of the selections. I was already using flickr, so I said 'send them to flickr.' Really, I had no idea if I had any photos there but I'd rather transfer any if there were any there rather than have them get lost. Since I picked flickr they said 'hey, we'll give you a free three months of pro account! And I said 'Oh shiny!' So in the last three months I've uploaded a whole lot of photos. Currently I have 1414 pictures uploaded. Probably twenty or so sets. I haven't counted, but I'm OCD about keeping things organized. I've recently uploaded 233 photos from our road trip this spring. They're currently private because I haven't finished describing said photos.
I got a thing though that said 'Your pro account is expiring in 3 days!' I was like 'well, crap. I don't feel like I can splash out for a pro account right now... and it won't hurt me to have the upload limit in place again, I'm probably not going to be doing anything TOO exciting in the next few months that I'll have a whole lot of pictures for.' It would suck because I had wanted to post all of the wedding pictures up, and there are 304 of those from the wedding photographer. Plus around 60 from Krissy. Trying to get wedding photos up I'm sure would kill my upload limit before I was finished. That would suck. I had been trying to figure out the benefits of having a paid account before I ended up having a paid account. There was a link to find out what would happen to my account exactly when it went back to free.
Turns out the free account SUCKS! I wish I had paid more attention to what the free account did. But I swear when I looked at the upgrade page it only talked about the upload limit, the set limit, the group limit, and not being able to download the big photos (but that they'd be saved for you in case you wanted them later). The main reason I looked was because I was wondering what would happen to my sets.
I seemed to have missed a detail. Now, you can only have the 3 sets, and the ones you had as a paid account user go away, but will come back if you upgrade. Sucks, but I could deal with that.
But what I had failed to notice was that your photostream ends at 200 photos as a free user. Shit, I just posted those road trip photos, and there were 233. Even if I was able to post my wedding photos in one month, I wouldn't be able to post all of them! :/ Plus, I'd have wasted my time putting up the road trip photos.
And all of the pictures I posted over the summer won't be able to be seen by anyone. The reason I'm posting them is so that my friends and family can see what I'm doing. Mom hasn't even been able to look at all the photos I've posted up to this point.
Another thing that pisses me off is that if your free account is inactive for 90 days, it will be deleted. WTF? So I could have had a paid account for a year, it reverts to free, I'm super busy for 3 months and don't come online for stuff like that (it's happened before, I've left my livejournal or my neopets or whatever hanging out for a long time without doing anything with it because I just didn't have time), and I come back and everything is just gone? That is bullshit.
Now I had been considering getting a paid account again in the near future, whenever I felt like I had $25 to spare for a year's account. But after I looked at stuff it seemed almost silly. I like photo-blogging. I really really really do. But I feel like if I continue posting pictures on flickr, I am committing myself to just always have a paid account. Because I don't want my pictures to get deleted. And if I'm going to bother at all I want people to be able to see the stuff that I've put up. :/
I don't think livejournal has a silly "if you're gone for 3 months we'll delete you" policy, does it? Yeah, 3 months is a long time, but it's not that long of a time.
And then when I was describing my photos I got annoyed because flickr had some of my photos horribly scrambled. Like one photo where we were camping in CA, then one where we were at the Hogle Zoo in UT, then one where we were at Fossil Falls in NV, then back to the zoo, then back to the falls, then 2 at the zoo, then back to CA. I don't get it. I don't think it's my camera, because my computer has them in order when I look at them. Has anyone had that problem before?
What do the lot of you think of flickr? I was thinking perhaps I could get another paid year of lj for my birthday (Dec 1st), but perhaps I should go for flickr. But then there is the whole thought of 'if I'm going for a paid flickr account, then I am locking myself in there because the longer I'm on, the more attached I am to it because the more photos and time will have been spent on it'.
Krissy started me on it. She has a pro account and it was really neat to be able to keep up with her life via photostream. It wasn't as good as being able to be hang out and do the stuff with her, but it's much better than email!
Over the summer I had uploaded some pictures- not too many because at first I was using the crap basic uploader and because I had the free account with the bandwidth limit on uploading. But then I got an email from yahoo saying they were getting rid of yahoo photos to just stick with flickr. They said that they would transfer any photos I had on yahoo photos to a selection of places, flickr being one of the selections. I was already using flickr, so I said 'send them to flickr.' Really, I had no idea if I had any photos there but I'd rather transfer any if there were any there rather than have them get lost. Since I picked flickr they said 'hey, we'll give you a free three months of pro account! And I said 'Oh shiny!' So in the last three months I've uploaded a whole lot of photos. Currently I have 1414 pictures uploaded. Probably twenty or so sets. I haven't counted, but I'm OCD about keeping things organized. I've recently uploaded 233 photos from our road trip this spring. They're currently private because I haven't finished describing said photos.
I got a thing though that said 'Your pro account is expiring in 3 days!' I was like 'well, crap. I don't feel like I can splash out for a pro account right now... and it won't hurt me to have the upload limit in place again, I'm probably not going to be doing anything TOO exciting in the next few months that I'll have a whole lot of pictures for.' It would suck because I had wanted to post all of the wedding pictures up, and there are 304 of those from the wedding photographer. Plus around 60 from Krissy. Trying to get wedding photos up I'm sure would kill my upload limit before I was finished. That would suck. I had been trying to figure out the benefits of having a paid account before I ended up having a paid account. There was a link to find out what would happen to my account exactly when it went back to free.
Turns out the free account SUCKS! I wish I had paid more attention to what the free account did. But I swear when I looked at the upgrade page it only talked about the upload limit, the set limit, the group limit, and not being able to download the big photos (but that they'd be saved for you in case you wanted them later). The main reason I looked was because I was wondering what would happen to my sets.
I seemed to have missed a detail. Now, you can only have the 3 sets, and the ones you had as a paid account user go away, but will come back if you upgrade. Sucks, but I could deal with that.
But what I had failed to notice was that your photostream ends at 200 photos as a free user. Shit, I just posted those road trip photos, and there were 233. Even if I was able to post my wedding photos in one month, I wouldn't be able to post all of them! :/ Plus, I'd have wasted my time putting up the road trip photos.
And all of the pictures I posted over the summer won't be able to be seen by anyone. The reason I'm posting them is so that my friends and family can see what I'm doing. Mom hasn't even been able to look at all the photos I've posted up to this point.
Another thing that pisses me off is that if your free account is inactive for 90 days, it will be deleted. WTF? So I could have had a paid account for a year, it reverts to free, I'm super busy for 3 months and don't come online for stuff like that (it's happened before, I've left my livejournal or my neopets or whatever hanging out for a long time without doing anything with it because I just didn't have time), and I come back and everything is just gone? That is bullshit.
Now I had been considering getting a paid account again in the near future, whenever I felt like I had $25 to spare for a year's account. But after I looked at stuff it seemed almost silly. I like photo-blogging. I really really really do. But I feel like if I continue posting pictures on flickr, I am committing myself to just always have a paid account. Because I don't want my pictures to get deleted. And if I'm going to bother at all I want people to be able to see the stuff that I've put up. :/
I don't think livejournal has a silly "if you're gone for 3 months we'll delete you" policy, does it? Yeah, 3 months is a long time, but it's not that long of a time.
And then when I was describing my photos I got annoyed because flickr had some of my photos horribly scrambled. Like one photo where we were camping in CA, then one where we were at the Hogle Zoo in UT, then one where we were at Fossil Falls in NV, then back to the zoo, then back to the falls, then 2 at the zoo, then back to CA. I don't get it. I don't think it's my camera, because my computer has them in order when I look at them. Has anyone had that problem before?
What do the lot of you think of flickr? I was thinking perhaps I could get another paid year of lj for my birthday (Dec 1st), but perhaps I should go for flickr. But then there is the whole thought of 'if I'm going for a paid flickr account, then I am locking myself in there because the longer I'm on, the more attached I am to it because the more photos and time will have been spent on it'.
