I finally hit the limit of my flickr account; I've posted 200 pictures, and so, starting from the beginning of my photo stream, some of them are going to start disappearing.
I have about 100 more pictures to post, but I've been intentionally keeping my account free, because I'm not sure if it's actually worth my time (or money) to use the features of a "pro" account if nobody is really listening.
So I'm wondering, are there 20 people out there — one for each of the dollars it would take to upgrade my account — who actually care about what I'm posting on flickr? No need to get effusive, just ping me in the comments (or email) to let me know I should upgrade and keep posting pictures.
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I care that you have an RSS feed of your photos and probably Andrew does too (he reads my aggregators rather than setting up his own). I don't care specifically if it's provided by Flickr.
Flickr says "Photostream views limited to the 200 most recent images", which may mean the stream is only 200, but if it's in a set or something it's still there. It's a bit vague...
I've still got a free account, and what happens is essentially that the photo is still available if you happen to have the exact URL or have embedded it in a page or something. I believe it's still in groups that you added it to too. But it is taken out of your photostream and also out of any sets. They're not findable via clicking from your user page except in very obscure ways, such as "what are all the photos I added to X group?" and Flickr tends to remove such ways when they hear about them: I gather that the remaining ways are flaws in their model rather than intentional.
In other words, they're fairly comprehensively hidden from casual browsing and from the uploader if the exact URL/image id isn't known.
I listen. Occasionally. But I subscribe to your feed, so it doesn't impact me greatly that your older ones aren't visible.
I'd say to upgrade only if you want to use Flickr as an exhibition, as opposed to a stream of consciousness (or a dumping ground). I upgraded because of my trip to Japan -- I wanted to be able to share those photos with people, without obscuring older ones of family vacations or holidays.
Or, if you're not into the Mozy thing, using Flickr as a backup is as good an option as any for fire-proofing your digital photo archive. I think $25/yr for unlimited photo backups is probably a good deal. Cheaper than rsync.net, at least.
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