I've Reached My Limit
I remember that episode of "Coach" where Luther, played by Jerry Van Dyke is complaining to Coach about the so-called "all-you-can-eat breakfast." Luther is upset that they say it's all-you-can-eat, but they always stop him at twelve pancakes. Lately my photo sharing service is making me feel like ol' Luther.
I often use Flickr to house the images for the TechNudge content. I find it more convenient and easier to use than the included tools in WordPress. I can just keep it open in a separate Window, and paste in the image URL's. Also, once the images are uploaded, I can work on a review on any internet enbled computer, with or without my flash drive handy.
I realize that the internet is not all-you-can-eat. I often wondered how the Flickr folks could produce such highly polished tool for the amazingly low price of nothing. Sure, there are some restrictions. These include only being able to upload 20 megs of data in a month. That seemed fair, and after I compress the images, I was never even above 50% in a month. I figured they were trading bandwidth for page views, and everyone wins.
Well, not exactly. Let's just say, that I hit the 12 pancake limit. When I went to upload some images the other day, I was greeted by the message that there is a 200 image limit. Well, needless to say, I like to include a lot of images with my reviews, and Flickr just can't accommodate it under this policy.
I'm not upset about the limit, but that it is not better publicized. How about a counter on the uploading page to show how close we are to the limit, for example? I think they want us to get hooked to then find out that we need a full service account for $25 annually. I felt like a drug addict that is given the first few hits for free, and then told the price of the stuff after I became dependent.
At any rate, I've switched to Photobucket for my hosting needs. They have bandwidth restrictions, but allow a full gig of images which should last for some time to come. The folks at Flickr also will delete ALL images if we don't log on at least once every 90 days. So first they get you in, and then they don't want to let you out (that was from some mobster movie...).
Why is Flickr run with organized crime methods? Use it at your own risk, you've been warned. As for me, I'm moving on.
--Jonas
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I often use Flickr to house the images for the TechNudge content. I find it more convenient and easier to use than the included tools in WordPress. I can just keep it open in a separate Window, and paste in the image URL's. Also, once the images are uploaded, I can work on a review on any internet enbled computer, with or without my flash drive handy.
I realize that the internet is not all-you-can-eat. I often wondered how the Flickr folks could produce such highly polished tool for the amazingly low price of nothing. Sure, there are some restrictions. These include only being able to upload 20 megs of data in a month. That seemed fair, and after I compress the images, I was never even above 50% in a month. I figured they were trading bandwidth for page views, and everyone wins.
Well, not exactly. Let's just say, that I hit the 12 pancake limit. When I went to upload some images the other day, I was greeted by the message that there is a 200 image limit. Well, needless to say, I like to include a lot of images with my reviews, and Flickr just can't accommodate it under this policy.
I'm not upset about the limit, but that it is not better publicized. How about a counter on the uploading page to show how close we are to the limit, for example? I think they want us to get hooked to then find out that we need a full service account for $25 annually. I felt like a drug addict that is given the first few hits for free, and then told the price of the stuff after I became dependent.
At any rate, I've switched to Photobucket for my hosting needs. They have bandwidth restrictions, but allow a full gig of images which should last for some time to come. The folks at Flickr also will delete ALL images if we don't log on at least once every 90 days. So first they get you in, and then they don't want to let you out (that was from some mobster movie...).
Why is Flickr run with organized crime methods? Use it at your own risk, you've been warned. As for me, I'm moving on.
--Jonas
Technorati tags:
flickr, image hosting, photobucket, web 2.0
posted by digitaldoc at 9:47 PM
1 Comments:
Flickr really has some nerve keeping the 200 image limit some big secret.
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