
if you don't want to pay for it - flickr isn't the only image hosting site in town
*googles* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photo_sharing_websites
I'm actually quite happy with my free flickr account and find it quite useful. I'd like the pro features but I'm mean. Oh well.
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*googles* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photo_sharing_websites
I'm actually quite happy with my free flickr account and find it quite useful. I'd like the pro features but I'm mean. Oh well.

Could use your interwebby power and influence to get flickr to rewrite its FAQ properly?
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when you copy an image, open tattyshop, open a new document, ctrl-v.. and then bam. spaceball.gif
well fuck you spaceball.gif
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well fuck you spaceball.gif

kind of annoying, but doable
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that arent shared under creative commons - i.e. ones you shouldnt be downloading.
There's also a greasemonkey script that lets you see "all sizes" even when you're not meant to...
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There's also a greasemonkey script that lets you see "all sizes" even when you're not meant to...

to shrink the offending transparent gif to 10%, so you can copy the image underneath.
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there used to be another firefox extension that grabbed the underlying image no problem, that doesn't seem to work any more so i've been screen grabbing.
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If you click and drag across the image theres a small bar along the bottom of the image that spaceball doesn't cover, rightmouse click and save, so easy!!
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it takes a bit of doing, that bar is tiny and tricky to hit, but it works
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* offer a good product for free
* offer a better product for money
* let people find out why they need the better over time
it's basically try before you buy and wouldn't work if they emphasised the restrictions of the free account before you you signed up.
you're not keen on this model - oh well - come up with something better and if it works (i.e. you make lots of money) then everyone will copy it and do that instead.
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* offer a better product for money
* let people find out why they need the better over time
it's basically try before you buy and wouldn't work if they emphasised the restrictions of the free account before you you signed up.
you're not keen on this model - oh well - come up with something better and if it works (i.e. you make lots of money) then everyone will copy it and do that instead.

which, as you say, they wouldn't if they knew.
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if something is 'free' you should carefully look for the catch. The catch is plainly written in that faq. Why should I care for someone to gullible to not to check what he/she/it is agreeing to?
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then I unexpectedly hit the 200 photo limit and changed my mind.
They lost my trust.
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They lost my trust.

I think you're doing it the wrong way round.
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They went from one of the biggest hosting sites to, well... anyone here use putfile any more?
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and luckily the pixels on my screen are REUSABLE (yes!) so in other words, I liked it.
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digg.com/all/popular/24hours
The extent of their photoshopping ability is adding a red arrow and "WTF?!" to a photo/screen dump in MS Paint
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The extent of their photoshopping ability is adding a red arrow and "WTF?!" to a photo/screen dump in MS Paint

i frequent there more often than is healthy. I just came here and was confused.
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and they wanted to charge me for a newspaper. The evil shits!
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which limits the amount of news I can read each calendar month.
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flounced out of the shop saying "I'll pay you Tuesday week, my good chap."
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buy your own bloody webspace!!
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This is why you read the faq.
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Sat 2 Aug 2008, 12:07,
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i just uploaded 1,500 pictures.
pay for it or stop whining.
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Sat 2 Aug 2008, 12:11,
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pay for it or stop whining.

i've been a rather infrequent visitor of late, too busy uploading sodding pictures to flickr, www.flickr.com/photos/gstq/collections/72157606417643626/
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you tight chuff
God i have just seen the something disturbing, Beavis and Butthead - the porno. I now want to vomit
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God i have just seen the something disturbing, Beavis and Butthead - the porno. I now want to vomit

if you want flickr's premium services, pay for them.
why should you get them for free?
do you think you're entitled to something?
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why should you get them for free?
do you think you're entitled to something?

I just want them to be more upfront about what's (not) included in their free account.
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it's not really good business acumen, and certainly wouldn't do them any favours.
For a majority of the users, the free account is probably enough. For those who would use it to a greater degree,
surely it is their responsibility to question and seek out information prior to using it, to make sure it meets their needs.
That's why info. is there in their FAQ. They do appear to be a business, and not a charity.
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For a majority of the users, the free account is probably enough. For those who would use it to a greater degree,
surely it is their responsibility to question and seek out information prior to using it, to make sure it meets their needs.
That's why info. is there in their FAQ. They do appear to be a business, and not a charity.

but it would be good of them to emphasise that you don't get more than 200 pictures, because that's the kind of thing you might expect to get by default.
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and they're gonna advertise what they can do for you, not how they can limit/stifle/cut back the overall service.
That kind of thing is always reserved for the small print - or the FAQ in this case. Every reasonable size business does it.
If they said, 'get a free account with 200 pics' the first thing most people would do is google for a site that had a higher number or unlimited uploads,
thus doing flickr out of potential business. I agree that it would be 'nice' of them to do it, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it :)
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That kind of thing is always reserved for the small print - or the FAQ in this case. Every reasonable size business does it.
If they said, 'get a free account with 200 pics' the first thing most people would do is google for a site that had a higher number or unlimited uploads,
thus doing flickr out of potential business. I agree that it would be 'nice' of them to do it, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it :)

If the annoying part was written out in big red letters and highlighted in yellow, people would be warned away from flickr. Of course we can't expect them to advertise it like that, it would be bad for business - except that keeping this stuff in the small print makes them slightly arsey, and having it pointed out that they are slightly arsey is potentially worse for business, depending on whether the idea "flickr are slightly arsey" catches on or not. Which is isn't doing in this thread, I must admit.
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Saves effort.
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Which is why I'm pointing out what's there for other chumps like me who who don't read every single line of text in the FAQ before signing up for something :-)
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I must admit, I've been tempted to get a flickr account, and didn't know all this stuff until you posted above.
So it's nice to have that info now ;)
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Sat 2 Aug 2008, 13:08,
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So it's nice to have that info now ;)


You can share your personal photos, streamed to any corner of the world, FOR FREE. So they put some restrictions on it, I think that's quite reasonable. And since it's on their FAQ page, it's not like it's hidden in the fine print.
You're a greedy cunt. Be happy that these people are giving you something for nothing. You can go back to sticking your polaroids in phone boothes if you like.
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You're a greedy cunt. Be happy that these people are giving you something for nothing. You can go back to sticking your polaroids in phone boothes if you like.