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I renewed at the offer price as I have 50k of photos from the last 15 years or so, all backed up and also on a separate hard drive.
Yes I do need to prune them but i think it’s a good option and good value till I get round to pruning.
Can’t see any way to get that level of storage and (relative) ease of use as cheaply anywhere els
365 subscription. Okay Personal sub starts at £60, but it's 1TB storage plus all the Office apps as well and multiple installs (for one user. £80 for Home sub at 6 users now).
My photos are just saved into OneDrive folder and it does the rest. Incredibly simple. Plus Photos app or web site I can create albums and share them with control over who I share with.
Just doesn't have the community aspect, but as SmugMug have said with Flickr that had all gone downhill due to the use more as a backup service, hence changing it. However it's more than just it being a dumping ground for photos, it became a spam service for anyone with an HDR filter to spam all the groups and other groups trying to promote their own group by inviting every picture under the sun with a "wow! amazing pic" invite. I gave up following the groups. Also have had issues with my top viewed photos being used without permission on commercial sites despite the CC no commercial use licence stuff.
I've been a pro user since god know when. But going from $24 a year to $50+ just isn't worth it given how the site community has died on it's backside. I used to be active in a number of groups and on the site a great deal but not any more.
For backup - and aside from hard-copies, I use Amazon Glacier - it's a write-once, if-the-house-burns-down solution but it costs me pennies to upload, and something like £0.30p a month for a backup of all our family photos and a bunch of digital docs I care about...
I seem to have ended up with a pro account despite not paying for it. Dunno how.
Like many things on the net its really hard to see how it can be profitable while giving away its services for free so changes must be inevitable. Its certainly not a service I would pay for tho - as for me its simply a way to get photos on here.
Cheeky buggers have just charged me $99 for 2 years despite no communication from them that the old account subscription would automatically become live again! I sent a snotty email but it's a reminder to be to treat subscription payments the same way I do Direct Debits.
What does Google's phot storage thing cost?
Part of drive, it allows it's set res pics to be uploaded unlimited but your Full Res ones are part of your allowance, price depends on quantity
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-drive-paid-consumer-storage-plans-become-google-one/
It's good for storage but more of a pain for sharing/presenting
IMHO (and what flickr have been saying) Flickr is not for storage of everything, it's for your best, shares and collections. The bulk should be somewhere else.