FlickR has a limit? boooo!

Apparently if you’re not a paying customer at FlickR, you’re not allowed to have more than 200 photos online - every time I upload a photo from now on, they erase one of my old ones.

Right now, I definitely can’t pay for an account, so I guess I’ll have to be careful about what I upload.

It’s too bad that they decided to set it up that way. Premium service should enable advanced and useful features to the photo-network. Instead, going pro merely unlocks the basic service—online image hosting.

I think the bandwidth limitation makes sense, because bandwidth isn’t always cheap, and it puts a nice break between the “casual” user and the “pro” user without actually making the service unusable.

Storage space is ridiculously cheap these days. As a consumer I can walk into Fry’s electronics and get a terrabyte of disk space for less than $400, which is nuts. And I guarantee you it’s cheaper when you buy bulk. The extra cost of holding non-paying photos cannot realistically be that high.

Charging for storage space does two things:

2. Unnecessarily limits the library of photos available on FlickR, and

3. Drastically reduces the utility of the service for non-pro members