OT: Flickr is deleting user photos

Here we go again. Flickr is starting to delete photos of free users who have more than 1,000. Flickr doesn't get used as much as some aternatives, but it is worth a warning. They want $50/year for hosting, for now.

I've been using Use - Free image hosting and photo sharing from Use.com for forum posts since 2012 (I have my own server for important stuff). They seem to be a great alternative - unlimited image size, stable interface that isn't frequently changing, video support, etc.

Flickr starts culling users' photos - BBC News

"BBC News, Feb 5 2019 Photo-sharing website Flickr is starting to delete users' photos after changing its terms and conditions.

The firm announced in November that it would no longer be allowing its members one terabyte of free storage. Under the new rules, there is a limit of 1,000 photographs for those who do not subscribe to the service at a cost of $49.99 (£38) per year."

Looks to be following photo bucket business plan. Wait until every one loads up then charge more.

For $49.99 (one time cost) one can buy a 1 TB hard drive and store the photos at home.

Wlodek said:

For $49.99 (one time cost) one can buy a 1 TB hard drive and store the photos at home.

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How would you link that?
And your pics wouldn't be online unless your tower was up and going eh?


You guys sure are a bunch of tight asses.
I never could figger out how those places could host that stuff for free.

I don't understand how they go from free to $100 tho either.


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Ox

I've been using Flickr for 12 years now apparently..

I think I went to a "Pro" account about 8 years ago, I don't know what it is
now, but you could only have 200 photos for free. It "Was" $25. I figured that
was worth it, its like getting 2 rolls of film developed. It took a bit of
digging around, but it is going to $50..

That's hitting the point where it is real money.. I'll probably forget about
this and it will get charged to my card anyways.

And since they are going up on the price.. I better use some bandwidth.



My one and only sun baker.. She wasn't a nugget, but it was big enough that I saw it
standing upright.





Why teachers should have to work during the summer.. They get bored and do
strange things to your dogs.








Have I gone off topic???

I could never understand how companies could offer significant amounts of resilient storage and bandwidth for free. Even in large (petabyte) amounts, the cost per megabyte isn't trivial. I run my own servers and all my photos are hosted on them and linked directly from them. I know what the costs are and am happy to pay those costs until I die. Don't know if my good lady wife continue paying the bill or administering the servers (which have three of her domains on) after she's rid of me though...

I never could figger out how those places could host that stuff for free.
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Flickr is just like Facebook, Goggle, and many other "tech" companies, their main income source is from selling ads.

And therefore, they need a huge user base to justify the cost of the ads. And the only way to get that huge user base is to offer the website itself and/or data storage for free.

Even Amazon and Ebay -- which are two websites that actually offer tangible products to buy, rake in big money with ads slipped into the pages.

These whiz-bang internet companies survive the early years on venture capital, but at some point those "venturists" want a big return on their money. And if the ad revenue isn't cutting it, then charge for the services they must.

ToolCat

Bob - is that a 50,000 yr old paw print made by some long ago extinct yeti?


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Ox

Ox said:

Bob - is that a 50,000 yr old paw print made by some long ago extinct yeti?


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Ox

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Might have been one of these guys.. Same location.. Coyotes and cows, that's
all I've ever seen out there. And Jack Rabbits, lots of Jack Rabbits.



Same place, better pic.


The haul from that location.. Many trips.. A whopping 1.7 grams, about $70 worth.


And to get more for my Flickr value..
Another pic from a few miles away.




Though maybe this guy was following me????

How doo you pull that fine'a stuff out?
Did you pan it at home?


I take it that there was something very blue in the sunlight beside you in that one pic?
Either that, or Man's Best Friend walked through a bunch of it too....

???


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Ox said:

How doo you pull that fine'a stuff out?
Did you pan it at home?

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Do you really want to know??? Pan it all, hell no, concentrate, then pan.. I have
2 dry washers, essentially a sluice that requires no water, the material needs to be
DRY!!!! and they run on air.. There are "puffers", and they use a bellow system,
either manually or by motor, or the ones I have run on a leaf blower..


I also use a Gold Cube. Gold Cube_ 21st century Gold Prospecting Equipment
Basically a fancy little sluice.


As for the panning. All a sluice or drywasher does is concentrate your material..
Then you still have to get the gold.. There are a ton of BS devices on the market
that "supposedly" make it easier.. They are all a bunch of crap..

Miller tables, Spiral wheels, and a whole bunch of other useless crap..

It really all boils down to one thing.. DENSITY.. I did the gold panning
booth at my better half's school for a few years.. And the big poster on the
wall... "GOLD IS HEAVY!!!!".. And to bring this back around to machining,
this is how I demonstrated it..



3 ounce Solo cups.. Hand them the sand and rocks first.. Yeah whatever was
the response. Hand them the black sand, Hematite and Magnetite, and its about
3X heavier, not much of a response, but they acknowledge that is heavier. Then,
the "Gold".. A cup full of carbide inserts, carbide being primarily Tungsten,
and within a few percent of the density of Gold, and then they understood. Gold
is HEAVY!!!! And most of the inserts were even the right color..

So after concentrating, you have a small amount of dirt with gold in it.. Gold
is heavy so it goes to the bottom, so it should be easy to pan.. BUT, a big piece
of dirt weighs more than a tiny piece of gold, so it can knock it out. So now
we have to classify. And you can get down to TINY TINY, so small you can't see
it with the naked eye.. And it then becomes easy..



I've got a 400 mesh screen also, .0015", and you can pan it, clean gold in the crease,
but if there isn't a lot(a pile) you need a scope to see it.

Of course, no oils, and use Jet Dry to clean up any excess oil and to break the
surface tension. Gold will float, not in the conventional sense, but it really
does not like to be wet. The flatter it is, the worse it is... Thankfully most of
the gold where I go is Chunky, fresh out of the rock, it hasn't traveled far, or been
smashed much.

I take it that there was something very blue in the sunlight beside you in that one pic?
Either that, or Man's Best Friend walked through a bunch of it too....

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Just sunlight, I wasn't going in there. I do a lot of dumb things, but going into mines
is not one of them.. That's the Bonanza, it apparently goes 3700 feet through the
mountain.. It has apparently caved about 2000 feet in if I remember correctly.



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