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Bloody. Yahoo's closing their photo site (apparently they own Flickr now?), and I have to figure out what to do with the photos I have online. They suggest five options:
- Flickr
- Photobucket
- Snapfish
- Shutterfly
- Kodak Gallery
What's important to me -- storage space, free service
What's not important -- creating prints from my photos.
Anyone have any opinions on the best option? I can already tell that Flickr's free account is probably not going to work. (And thanks for NOT e-mailing to warn me, Yahoo. Fuckers.)
Yahoo keeps emailing me, Dana. That's weird.
What is wrong with Flickr? That'll help see which of the others are right or wrong.
I can't remember which of that list seem to require you to log in to view someone's pics, but I know there are people's albums I never saw because I came to yet another registration page and wandered off in frustration.
Snapfish has been telling me they are about to delete the pictures I have in there since I haven't ordered anything in a year+, FYI.
The only one I've seen (other than Flickr) that I don't hate is PicasaWeb. 1 GB storage for the free account.
Eep. I should check my Yahoo.
I've definitely walked from site where I had to register to see pics that the owner sent me a link to - do not want.
I've definitely walked from site where I had to register to see pics
Me too -- and I think several of the sites on Yahoo's recommended list do it; I'm just not sure which ones. Other sins: sites with impossible to navigate albums, sites that make it suck to just link to a picture, reaaaaaaallly slow sites, sites that nag me to pay for prints at every turn.
What is wrong with Flickr?
HA. I searched at Flickr for "FAQ" and was clearly not paying attention, since I ended up searching the photos. The first hit was a picture of Jon B's, with DX, Theo, Thessaly, Nutty, and FAQ!Wife.
Anyway, free Flickr accounts have a 100MB upload limit per month. Maybe I'm overestimating my needs, but at the very least, I couldn't transfer all of my photos over there at once.
Picasa is Google's service? I'll check that out.
If you want to upload high-quality pictures (not resized to 800X600, say), then flickr fills up pretty quick. If you're ok with resizing, then I haven't had problems--granted, I tend not to do a TON of pics all the time, but....
I don't know if other sites have it, they may. But I like the dedicated individual email address in flickr so I can email a picture to the site, no login or anything. If only I could convince my parents to use it to post photos to my page!
I think the Kodak site always looks like it wants you to register to look at albums, but you (sometimes, at least) don't really have to.
