[Closed] Alternatives to Flickr

Hey Mick,

I'm with you re Flickr. Been caught out for 2020 and looking for an alternative for next year.

Try the discount code '25in2019' at checkout (without the inverted commas) for 25% off. It worked for me, although it's meant to be for new customers.

Let me know how you get on.

Tweeky.

It's a tricky one isn't it?

It just seems wrong paying for a service which was free for years. Although I am using their space so obviously should have to pay. I just wonder if AWS or Azure storage (or similar) would be cheaper.

They are still making a loss so I do also worry that it will eventually close.

Just looking at this:

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/free-online-storage/

It looks like Google is cheaper at £16 per year. Alternatively I should just move my photos to Amazon because I am a Prime member.

Mick

I'm guilty of not exploiting Amazon as a Prime member - just having a look at it now.  Seems easy but if it's only going to convince me if this works:

And... duh.

Same issue here. Similar number of photos. THe idea of comparing what i have in my iCloud library and pulling off 100s that are only on Flickr is the only thing keeping me using it. I'd like to consolidate onto less storage platforms so looking at DropBox (which I use for work) or Google.

Oh sorry missed Kryton's post. Amazon Photos. That's a thing eh? Right then, before Jan 21, I'll dump the lot over there. Probably one album at a time.

Anyone know if Amazon does de-dup? As I could let it back up everything in my photos app but at least 2/3 of those are on flickr.

I already back all my icloud photos up to my local NAS. That's about the last 8 years. It's the stuff before that on Flickr I don't have another backup for.

Just switched my subscription to monthly (it is due tomorrow) to give me time to switch.

I have requested my data from Flickr, then I will attempt to download all my photos and add to Amazon.

I will let you know how it goes.

Mick

So...

I manually move things to Flickr for sharing on here mostly, with my photo's being saved to Google.   I've enabled Amazon photo's via my Prime account, and downloaded the Amazon Photo's app onto my phone which is busy syncing everything as I type, seems easy so far and of course is "free" (ish)

It seems - see above - I can share into forums via Amazon so will continue to upload individual pics to my free Flickr account for sharing via BB code, but Amazon does give the easy facility of "my photos" (default) and a Family folder which my wife can see - seems to be an easier way to share pics of the kids as she creates annual Snapfish Albums for them.

I did try a Google shared folder but it never seemed to work properly.

Just got caught out by the Flickr renewal too.

Looked at this last year when it was bought out but still haven't found anything that works the same way, particularly for hotlinking.

I have Prime but can't find a way to get a link that works for bbcode?

Got Google Drive/Photos but again the linking is an issue.

Just logged into Flickr for the first time in ages - also had to reactivate an yahoo email account, nothing is ever easy.

Plug in Toshiba hard drive.
Only use Google or flicker to get a BB code for posting on here.

You can recreate the albums in Amazon Photos but I reckon it'd be quite a manual process. I thought loading a flickr album into a photo would auto create an album but it doesn't. So then you'd have to select what you've just uploaded. I have about 40 albums!

Also I can realised I've probably got 400-500 photos hosted on flickr hot-linked to my blog. I mean it's not a big thing if they go, but it'll annoy me so I'd have to put them back via flickr or upload them into wordpress. Amazon to wordpress does work, it's not as slick as flickr, but it could be done.

Downloading from Flickr is going well, it zips them in batches of 500.

Now uploading them to Amazon.

all those uploading to amazon...... do you lose them all if you bin prime?

that's a good question. I'm adding all the old ones not on my icloud account into photos AND making a separate copy on the NAS. So if I lose icloud/amazon I have my own copies.

I'm still downloading by album. I know there's a reason it'll bite me in the arse if I don't!

Looks like the hot-linking thing is a problem tho. No easy way to do that. Just stick those on free Flickr I guess.

Seems with a tiny bit of faff (less than deleting all the extra stuff from a Flickr link) you can hotlink images from Google Drive.

My best Google Fu though suggests there's no way to do it from Amazon Photos...

Ugly super long link text, but it seems you can hotlink direct from Google Photos too with a bit of faff. Since my phone cameras all auto upload there that might be a better option...

(until Google change everything again - used to be so simple in the Picasa days)

Storage and sharing with family/friends, I use OneDrive with a 365 account. 1TB store and they don't mess with the photos.

Has album creation and all that.

Hotlinking is more of a problem, but I either use free Flickr or Imgur for that.

Social media sharing, Instagram. Despite the resolution downgrade. Everyone just uses their phone anyway.

Also I backup to my NAS which itself backs up to a 1TB USB drive.

Hotlinking from Google Photos often seems to work, but then it can stop working after a day or two, and your photo will disappear from the forum. Or may depend on whether you are logged in or not.

Easier to use Imgur, which gives you the BBcode to copy anyway.

I do use Imgur from time to time for other (found) images, but don't like its lack of structure for my own images.

I really want somewhere that can store (backup), organise and share my photos all in one. Currently Flickr does all that, and to be fair 4 quid a month is relatively cheap until it goes under or the price goes up.

Always on the lookout for alternative solutions though.