Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled Ui, New Android App, And 1Tb Of Free Storage

[Lite Beer]

Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled UI, New Android App, And 1TB Of Free Storage
JORDAN CROOK

Smack-dab in the middle of Yahoo-Tumblr aqcuisition day, Yahoo is holding a major press event here in NYC. But announcements coming out of this event aren’t related to Tumblr as much as Flickr, the photo-sharing database and social network acquired by Yahoo in March of 2005 for $35 million.

Today, Flickr gets a huge revamp including a totally new look and feel, focused on three different things. First, there are no more bits of text or blue links, but rather a grid layout of huge pictures in full resolution.

Second, stemming from the updated iOS app recently, which yielded 25 percent more uploads, the company is also announcing a brand new Android experience, catching the Google version of the Flickr app up to the iOS version.

Finally, Flickr looks to get even “biggr.” The company is expanding storage for your photos, by quite a bit. Flickr is offering 1 terabyte of free storage for every Flickr user. Yahoo made it clear that no other Internet company in the world offers a free terabyte of storage. That’s the equivalent of 537,731 photos.

In terms of the UI redesign, the new photostream has a justified format grid layout, complete with a header photo and a Timeline-style profile for users. On the top left, next to the photostream button, you can also click into Favorites and Sets.

But what are photos without sharing? Users have an easy share button to send photos out on any of their favorite social networks, including Tumblr.

Most importantly, Flickr has fiddled with the picture page to give a black background and a fullscreen image for every single photo page. The site has been revamped to give easy-click access to the next photo in the set or photostream, even in full-screen mode.

Adam Cahan, SVP of Mobile and Emerging products at Yahoo, announced that Flickr currently has 89 million users who have shared over 8 billion photos. That’s a lot of pictures.

Mayer explained that most of the changes happening at Yahoo concerns users’ daily habits, which explains why the company has put so much focus on the Yahoo Home Page, Yahoo mail, and the Yahoo weather app. In a number of ways, these products are energized and enhanced by photos.

Read More: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/20/flickr-gets-a-huge-revamp-with-hi-res-image-filled-ui-new-android-app-and-1tb-of-free-storage/

--TechCrunch.com 2013-05-21

[Guest]

I start to be very impressed how Marissa Mayer has turned Yahoo! from being "company for old suite people, who try to dress like rap stars" to something much more compelling.

This is how she announced Tumblr deal. http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/post/50902274591/im-delighted-to-announce-that-weve-reached-an

So first time in many, many years I'm interested what they can offer.

Does Flickr offer similar PC client as Picasa have? Something which makes editing and uploading as very easy task? Something for Linux / ubuntu / debian?

[FracturedRabbit]

I have used Flickr for five years and love it. With a Pro account I have unlimited uploads, unlimited storage and no advertisements; all for just $24.95 a year.

With the new arrangements announced today, once my Pro account expires I will have a free account with 1TB limit (which to be fair I will probably never use), plus advertisements. If I want to get rid of the advertisements it will cost me nearly $50 a year. I would have preferred to carry on paying the $24.95 for the Pro benefits.

Still, for anyone looking for a free photo storage site, Flickr is great.

[sugar2009]

Flickr looks a good upgrade

​1 TB storage sadly its only 300 MB per month and then under strict use of the site & your uploads and status

​I was on the old Flickr lost many albums never had a sound reason why they disappear never recovered at all count less requests zero response now yahoo has a new horse in it stable so wants to put their old nag with the new stud hoping it will bring back interest because of the new wave of youngsters and the "Smartphone & multi tablet Era" various offers and new ideas with "Flickr " will it help people who lost thousands of photos doubt it

[utalkin2me]

I like the photostream pages much more now. I never liked the images sitting on white like that. It makes a group of images look very appealing now.

[FracturedRabbit]

Flickr looks a good upgrade

​1 TB storage sadly its only 300 MB per month and then under strict use of the site & your uploads and status

​I was on the old Flickr lost many albums never had a sound reason why they disappear never recovered at all count less requests zero response now yahoo has a new horse in it stable so wants to put their old nag with the new stud hoping it will bring back interest because of the new wave of youngsters and the "Smartphone & multi tablet Era" various offers and new ideas with "Flickr " will it help people who lost thousands of photos doubt it

There is no monthly restriction, although there is a 200MB restriction per photo. These are the Free account rules:

• 1 Terabyte of photo and video storage
• Upload photos of up to 200MB per photo
• Upload 1080p HD videos of up to 1GB each
• Video playback of up to 3 minutes each
• Upload and download in full original quality
• Unlimited monthly bandwidth

[trunknuk]

All nice and good, but is there anywhere in Bangkok with blazing fast upload speed so I could upload my 200GB + photo library in a couple hours?

[utalkin2me]

All nice and good, but is there anywhere in Bangkok with blazing fast upload speed so I could upload my 200GB + photo library in a couple hours?

I am starting to agree. I have uploaded quite a bit, but it is a slow process. It is like giving somebody 30 million baht, and telling them they can only spend 100 baht a day,

[trunknuk]

All nice and good, but is there anywhere in Bangkok with blazing fast upload speed so I could upload my 200GB + photo library in a couple hours?

I am starting to agree. I have uploaded quite a bit, but it is a slow process. It is like giving somebody 30 million baht, and telling them they can only spend 100 baht a day,

Maybe that's their trick. 1TB free, but they throttle it. I did a whopping 16 photos uploaded with their upload tool letting it run all night.

[Guest]

All nice and good, but is there anywhere in Bangkok with blazing fast upload speed so I could upload my 200GB + photo library in a couple hours?

That would be somewhere around 250Mbps upload speed, might be slightly challenging.

[utalkin2me]

I have a good 6 gb or so up there now. All in all, I am happy, but it is a bit slow. i am just making it into a project. You can upload 200 photos or videos at a time i have found.