Why do you say I should thank flickr/yahoo for "making it easy to pull all of your content out"? If you mean that my options are any of these three: 1. Manually delete images or manually copy back to my hard drive 2. API allows use of the FlickrDown app so I can get copies of each set I made with an off-flickr tool 3. Pay flickr for a back-up CD
Then I should just be grateful? Not EASY to pull all my content out.
Exploring present idea of downgrading from Pro account to freebie, like 95% of all present flickr members.
Wrote a long reply to the original post and of course this Old Skool member of flickr could not remember her correct password in slashdot.org, urk!
So, gist of my concern is that I am an original member with a paid account at flickr for the sum of $41.95. I would never have paid money to flickr had I known it would be purchased by yahoo.com. I paid to support a straight-forward company who provided the services I needed. Like many Pro account members, I paid it directly to flickr.com and did so knowing that I was directly supporting a fine company with great attention to its clients. What is so "Old Skool" about this kind of transaction? Seems to me it is a traditional value, money for services, and little if any hidden "cost".
I left msn.com groups and communities 3 years ago for the intrustions to privacy and spam, with pop-ups and the like because of that COST. I've had yahoo.com for over 7 years now as a completely separate business email webhost and pay for that premium service. However I have experienced poor customer service, being locked out of my account for cause never determined, had a huge increase in spam mail (what kind of malarky is the "new, improved Spam Filter" and the daily "Thanks for reporting Spam" messages!) It doesn't work well, end game scenario.
Now I find that I will have to reconsider membership to flickr.com too. The COST is more than I want to bear. I have good reason and experience telling me that this COST is a pain in the rear. Who needs it! There will be many other options I can go to, and my feet are talkin'.
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Why do you say I should thank flickr/yahoo for "making it easy to pull all of your content out"? If you mean that my options are any of these three:
1. Manually delete images or manually copy back to my hard drive
2. API allows use of the FlickrDown app so I can get copies of each set I made with an off-flickr tool
3. Pay flickr for a back-up CD
Then I should just be grateful? Not EASY to pull all my content out.
Exploring present idea of downgrading from Pro account to freebie, like 95% of all present flickr members.
Wrote a long reply to the original post and of course this Old Skool member of flickr could not remember her correct password in slashdot.org, urk! So, gist of my concern is that I am an original member with a paid account at flickr for the sum of $41.95. I would never have paid money to flickr had I known it would be purchased by yahoo.com. I paid to support a straight-forward company who provided the services I needed. Like many Pro account members, I paid it directly to flickr.com and did so knowing that I was directly supporting a fine company with great attention to its clients. What is so "Old Skool" about this kind of transaction? Seems to me it is a traditional value, money for services, and little if any hidden "cost". I left msn.com groups and communities 3 years ago for the intrustions to privacy and spam, with pop-ups and the like because of that COST. I've had yahoo.com for over 7 years now as a completely separate business email webhost and pay for that premium service. However I have experienced poor customer service, being locked out of my account for cause never determined, had a huge increase in spam mail (what kind of malarky is the "new, improved Spam Filter" and the daily "Thanks for reporting Spam" messages!) It doesn't work well, end game scenario. Now I find that I will have to reconsider membership to flickr.com too. The COST is more than I want to bear. I have good reason and experience telling me that this COST is a pain in the rear. Who needs it! There will be many other options I can go to, and my feet are talkin'.