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I think that my $25 will keep Flickr/Yahoo from pulling the same shenanigans Instagram currently is (I've been using Flickr since 2006, just went Pro today). And for that $25 I get a hell of a lot more features than Instagram ever provided (privacy, API, full size photos, etc). All my photos are stored on my phone or hard drive, Flickr is just for sharing. Seriously.

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Oh, definitely, it's much better than Instagram and through its features (like creative-commons license statements and discovery based on those licenses) Flickr is actually providing a service that benefits the open web and all of us.

I was just saying though ... if you need to store your photos somewhere where they are readily available, choose general-purpose cloud storage, not Flickr, not Google+ or Picasa, or whatever else "photo sharing" service exists out there.

Leave Flickr and the likes of that for a "curated" photo stream of carefully chosen photos that you want to publish to the whole world and never trust their privacy settings.

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