I wish they would eliminate mine. I have no access to my account. I can't even get in to delete my images. I have tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and tried to get logged in but I am not allowed. A couple of years ago out of the blue my email carrier went out of business and I lost my access email. I have tried and tried and tried and tried and tried to contact someone but there is no one home. There is no technical backup. I wonder how many accounts are like mine. Not accessible to anyone. Just sitting there using space. I still get notices now and then of some new person following me. I need a good idea to make a new account and contact all the followers I have.
Dennis
The trouble I had was due to my trying too many times to log in and getting flagged and needing to verify that I am me and my verification email being disfunct. Anyway I finally just made a new email and new account and will try to find ways to communicate with people following me. thanks.Have you tried this URL https://help.flickr.com I found it with little effort with a quick search on the web. You will need to have your URL, the E Mail you are registered with and, account name for the form to complete to delete the account. There is a panel to explain why you need to do this. They may be able to help you keep it with another active E Mail address - It would be worth a try.
They don't delete the accounts - they delete the photographs from oldest to newest date uploaded—to meet the new limit (1000 photographs).There are still accounts that are not deleted.
I visit Photrio frequently and make an annual donation.
I visit a college football site frequently and make an annual donation.
I visit a movie/home theatre site which is free but makes it's money selling products via an Amazon referral program.
Obviously, every site has to have some form of revenue.
99% of Flickr photos are useless (and probably 99% of my photos are as well). Loss of millions of abandoned images is not a great loss. I do find the service useful and am a "pro" subscriber. It is the easiest way for me to make family photos available to family and friends (it is not my primary back-up mechanism).
NASA photos make up way less than 1% of Flickr images. Most of Flickr images consist of people taking photos of their girlfriends, or the same old tourist sites - different cameras or lenses, but the same old photos. I know people on Photrio only create masterpiece images with every single shutter click, but my experience is that I am lucky to get 2 or 3 "keepers" from a 36 exposure roll of film, and even fewer images of any lasting value. With people posting thousands of images on Flickr, how many of these personal accounts have thousands of "keepers". Flickr, like many hosting/backup services, allow people to semi-permanently archive images which a traditional photographer would never have printed.Photos provided by NASA and other Commons are 99% useless?
Photos from countries you will never see are useless?
High resolution photos by every possible photo gear made are useless?
I have been a photographer for 45 years and can put my keepers as tifs on an SD card. Photographers with mult-terabyte RAID arrays are deluding themselves. If you don't edit your own photos, no one else is going to do it when you are gone.When I look at my Aperture library of 25,000 images (there are frequent duplications), I realize that only a handful will have any lasting meaning to my descendants and other relatives. I am looking at ways of saving all my images for my personal use, but also a way to more permanently archive that small subset of images that may be of interest to others now or in the future.
NASA photos make up way less than 1% of Flickr images. Most of Flickr images consist of people taking photos of their girlfriends, or the same old tourist sites - different cameras or lenses, but the same old photos. I know people on Photrio only create masterpiece images with every single shutter click, but my experience is that I am lucky to get 2 or 3 "keepers" from a 36 exposure roll of film, and even fewer images of any lasting value. With people posting thousands of images on Flickr, how many of these personal accounts have thousands of "keepers". Flickr, like many hosting/backup services, allow people to semi-permanently archive images which a traditional photographer would never have printed.
When I look at my Aperture library of 25,000 images (there are frequent duplications), I realize that only a handful will have any lasting meaning to my descendants and other relatives. I am looking at ways of saving all my images for my personal use, but also a way to more permanently archive that small subset of images that may be of interest to others now or in the future.
I suspect that more images, mostly digital, have been lost or abandoned in the last year, than photos ever taken in the first 150 years of photography. And I suspect most of these lost images aren't missed. When it is easy to takes dozens of snapshots daily, if not more, it is easy to assume that only a few will be meaningful.
I empathize with users having to wean down their accounts to only 1000 images, especially since this is done with short notice, but with the exception of archivists, most collections would actually look much better weaned down a little.
Regrettably, you're absolutely right. Over the years I must have had 4 different Flickr accounts. The first one died with a computer, and despite numerous attempts to retrieve the photos, they are marooned in cyberspace. There was, probably still is a message that puts you into a retrieval loop, which became eternal when they withdrew the email key to unlock it. The others succumbed to similar changes of ownership, orphaned mail hosts, laptop failures, whatever. I gave up on the internet as a means of display.Permanence begins and ends with the creator. If you care about your pics you will keep negatives (if you shoot film), prints, and scanned images in the cloud AND off line. It is a drag.
I went through a tortuous metastable period of dying computers, dying raid drives, Apple abandonment of Aperture, to preserve digital images that I wanted to preserve. Preservation even including me buying a Canon pro-10 printer to make 5x7 prints of pics (mainly of kids, family, places we've been) I really want my kids to have when I long gone.
Relying only on cloud storage alone will end badly for many.
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