stupid flickr question

i have just over 1000 but it only grows at about 4 per year. am trying to download everything in order to unsub (well, in march) but i just get the bad panda page.

it's hard to find anything on flickr.com that says how much it costs (especially at the moment). one comment in the forum(?) said that they were going from $25 a year to $50 a year AND would take 2 years at a time... can't find that now though.

(actually, it's a mystery as to how they are taking my subscriptions because when i looked it's using an old paypal address, but hey)

actually, something here: https://www.flickr.com/groups/2389839@N23/discuss/72157699746592621/

that might be a special 2-year subscription, which i didn't know existed, only the monthly and yearly

i paid $42 with the discount they offered via email. honestly, that's not a lot of money to make sure all of my photos are accessible. i am ok with it. this is where i stored my life. i don't expect storage of my life to be inexpensive, and $42 wasn't too bad.

done now, 3 zip files, 500 images a piece and another containing .json files for each photo (the metadata). there are a bunch i can cull that nobody will care about, to get me below 1000.

I've got 22k images up there, dating back 14 years. My 2-yr Pro sub auto-updated in October at the new, doubled rate. It was very late in the day before I saw that was about to happen.

The promised improvements to the phone app have yet to happen, and the access is flaky. But... what am I going to do? I'm not moving 80GB+ of content to another site for anything much cheaper than this (losing all the history / context / interaction in the process) and nor do I have the time/inclination to curate a subset of that elsewhere (I've tried, on 500px and Zenfolio, and I just give up after a while).

I fear there'll be a lot of Bad Panda in the coming weeks as people bulk-download/delete/bail.

today was the free-but-unlimited account cutoff day.

looking at the per-photo .json file it does appear to contain all comments (including some from you!) all the exif stuff. everything you'd see on the webpage bascially.

we should start a free replacement, call it FUCKR.

$0.023 per GB per month for raw aws s3 storage. $2 a month for 80GB.

($0.024 if you want it in london)

I do quite like the stats, even if they're a dubious measure of engagement (e.g. I put a photo in a heavy-traffic public group, it gets a "view" for everyone who visits the group while the photo is amongst the most recent pageful - bingo, 200 "views" in a day though likely only 2-3 people have really clicked on it - not how it used to work) and is subject to distortion by various web-crawling bots (the suspicious exactly-100 views that each recent page in my stream gets occasionally) and the referrals are mostly anonymous. I have a feeling 500px does this a bit better, but that's chiefly the domain of flawlessly-lit Russian "glamour" photography and it gets a bit samey.

I think I'm Flickr for life. Until SmugMug go bust and it all vanishes.

xp - it's not just about the storage (if I wanted to cloud-store my all-time catalog, it's going to be around 3.5TB)

I've scheduled a date to do a mass migration to HD and cull the herd down to sub-1000.

Mission accomplished... now what?

Mass import to IG (lol)?