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Flickr free account going to be limited to 1000 photos (I currently have 2.25k images on there). $50 a year gets you unlimited full-resolution storage.
Path of least resistance will be to cough up the 3 quid a month for the upgrade (plus 20% discount in year one).
Before I do, are there any other free (or even pay if they offer something more) photo hosting sites that are on a par with Flickr in terms of features and storage that I should look at?
What are you actually looking for?
Just storage or somewhere you can easily share your photos with other people/look at theirs and comment and so on.
In terms of the former lots of choices. Amazon prime includes unlimited photo backup, microsoft 360 includes a terabyte of storage and then there is dropbox etc.
For the latter. Personally I stayed with flickr but 500px gets some votes but not sure about pricing wise.
TBH it's mostly just the storage/online backup I use it for but the easy (relatively) online sharing is handy. Not really into the community stuff (not that I don't value it, just not really got into it).
Already got a paid Google Drive account, but do like the fact that Flickr is image-focussed and not just general storage. plus direct linking from Drive/Photos is pretty much a no-no these days?
I'm mostly abusing imgur now
I would consider mixing and matching then.
At the moment I use amazon prime for backup purposes and then flickr for anything I want to share. Depends how long you want to keep the shareable photos available for.
With google drive I think you can separate it out into shareable stuff vs not but its not something I have spent anytime on.
I use Google Drive and Google Photos, think it's about £3 a month for 100gb.
However, standard photos do not count, so every photo I take on my phone/receive on whatsapp etc goes into the Google Photos cloud automatically with some light compression. If I really like the pic I can save it as original quality, I expect you can do this in photos but I just save it in Google Drive using the 100gb allowance.
You can share photos/ albums with friends/ contacts, however I don't think you can get a URL to post pics on here with is a bit annoying.
You can share photos/ albums with friends/ contacts, however I don’t think you can get a URL to post pics on here with is a bit annoying.
That's the clincher. Don't really want to have to go through 'download locally then upload to imgur' every time I want to post a pic somewhere.