p.1 #8 · Flickr expired, what other hosts are there?
It depends in part on how you wish to use the service. Flickr is a generic host that doesn't give you a great deal of choice about how your images are displayed. Unless you pay for the service, you're also limited in the number of albums you can maintain. If you want to customize your photo display smugmug, Zenfolio and photoshelter are options to explore. I'm sure there are others.
But it you want a simple site that costs nothing for the first 2GBs of photos and only $5 a year for up to 20GBs, you might want to check out Picasa, the service offered by Google. You download software that will automatically update whatever folders you have on your computer that you also have added to your online account. It is remarkably simple. Photos can be easily shared with family and friends and may be viewed with an easy to control slideshow.
Here is a link to one of my albums on Picasa simply to demonstrate what they look like - Check out the slideshow.
p.1 #10 · Flickr expired, what other hosts are there?
what pisses me off about flickr is they cut me off from anything older than 200 pictures but they arent removed from the site. So if I wanted to remove everything and move to another place I couldn't
plus I got a two year account for about $20...now its $50. wtf
p.1 #11 · Flickr expired, what other hosts are there?
mach250 wrote:
what pisses me off about flickr is they cut me off from anything older than 200 pictures but they arent removed from the site.
When you have a free account on Flickr, yes, you only are shown the most recent 200 photos. If you upgrade it to a "pro" account, you will see them all again.
So if I wanted to remove everything and move to another place I couldn't
Even if they were available, as far as I'm aware, it would be a nightmare "moving" the original files off Flickr somewhere else. "Moving" would mean, at best, bulk downloading the originals to your computer, then re-uploading to somewhere else. Skip the first part of that and when you re-establish where you want images, just upload them from your computer.
plus I got a two year account for about $20...now its $50. wtf
I'm not sure where you got a 2 year account for $20. It's been $24.95 per year for as long as I can remember.
p.1 #13 · Flickr expired, what other hosts are there?
CGrindahl wrote:
But it you want a simple site that costs nothing for the first 2GBs of photos and only $5 a year for up to 20GBs, you might want to check out Picasa, the service offered by Google.
I don't know if things have changed since last time I checked (couple of years ago), but the one problem I had with Picasa was that it stripped out the ICC profiles from my pictures on upload, and this causes viewing problems on Macs (at least with Safari) because Safari assumes untagged images to be in the ICC profile of your monitor, and not sRGB (which Windows and some other Mac browsers do). You don't notice if you upload your pictures in sRGB and use Windows because it "correctly" assumes the untagged image is sRGB, but if you upload an AdobeRGB picture or something you will run into problems no matter the browser/platform. Do you know if Picasa still strips the ICC profiles out of uploaded pictures?
I had the same experience with pbase, whose thumbnails got the ICC stripped as well, making the smaller versions of uploaded pictures look different than the "original" sized one. I also don't know if that ever got addressed.
p.1 #15 · Flickr expired, what other hosts are there?
I have both Photobucket and Zenfolio that I pay for, and use the free flickr as well. Photobucket also has a free version. Photobucket was $40 for two years.
p.1 #16 · Flickr expired, what other hosts are there?
mach250 wrote:
what pisses me off about flickr is they cut me off from anything older than 200 pictures but they arent removed from the site. So if I wanted to remove everything and move to another place I couldn't
plus I got a two year account for about $20...now its $50. wtf
Well that's not quite true. You're only shown your most recent 200 pictures in the stream. Nothing disappears. You can access the pictures directly, or through a group that you've added them to. Time was you could access the 'hidden' pictures through the API too. As it stands, if you delete your newest 200, you'll be able to see the next 200 in your stream. However, with a free account you cannot download the original photos.
What stopped me from ever patronizing Flickr was that they marked my account as 'obscene' without warning or recourse. From what I could tell, this was for fully clothed, non-erotic, non-obscene pictures. It hasn't helped that Yahoo has sunk a ton of money into pointless features like video hosting, and has made the UI less and less usable with each iteration.
What's stopped me from ever being willing to pay for a Yahoo product is watching the board toss out Jerry Yang (who was answering to the employees before the shareholders) in favor of Carol Bartz. Bartz, of course, subscribes to the Fiorina school of running a business into the ground. Instead of improving the product, just market the hell out of it and collect your golden parachute at the end.
p.1 #18 · Flickr expired, what other hosts are there?
Flickr's inability to let the user not display the photostream makes me cry.
It's definitely the facebook of photo hosts - more social than serious. I run on both sites and I'll admit there's a certain allure to the 'community' at flickr vs the clinical dryness of smugmug, but smugmug blows them away when it comes to interface and options.
It's free.