Flickr, I'm disappointed. The truth about the free terabyte.

griselda.posthaven.com

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The pricing changes might not be great (I won't attempt to evaluate them -- I'm not a Flickr customer nor in the target market whatsoever), but the 300MB cap claim is silly. You say it yourself: it's only been a few hours since they made this announcement at all, and they just removed that cap from the terms of service. They'll get to removing the technical restriction soon, I'm sure.

C'mon guys. I'm as big a fan of rage-fueled blog posts as anyone else, but can't we give them even a little breather before breaking out the pitchforks and torches?

That's an old, cached message. There is no 300mb limit anymore.

This message was from just two hours ago. But why make big announcement and then make changes? Should be other way around?

Large scale deploys are hard. Give them some time for the dust to settle before over-reacting.

It's just disappointing when larger companies that are supposed to be experienced with marketing announcements have messy executions, it just affects the service image/credibility. Well, at least it's good for start-ups to learn from them!

Despite the wrong execution on the process of rolling out the changes, the 1TB free is real.

So, can Flickr be considered as a reliable backup solution for my photographs?

The 1TB is definitely real. They had unlimited storage before for pro users. The fine print was confusing (i.e. max 300mb uploads per month). But I guess consumers now favour an actual measurable number (1TB) than unlimited. Flickr is a social community, not sure how reliable it is a backup solution. Good question though. Recently in the news they accidentally had some user's private photos as public :S

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