Monday, February 04, 2019
Panic stations! An email from Flickr informs me that from tomorrow, unless I start to pay, my blog photos will begin to be deleted (oldest first) until they are within the new limit of 1,000 images. Now, I'm not opposed to paying (I've always been in awe that all this stuff with blogging is free) but I think they could have given more notice. There was a previous email in January which admittedly I missed, but if they emailed me about this in November, well, I never saw it.
The point is, when we tried to reply, Flickr kept stating that they had no record of my email address - even though they'd just used that very email address to contact me!
I'd thought that when Picasa stopped, the images were held on Google; but when we went through to that, they were actually on Google+ which itself is going to stop in April. Flickr also talked of a "pro" badge on my account - well I didn't put it there. It's a muddled message altogether. This is all because Flickr has been bought by a new company called SmugMug. Rotten name.
Anyway, perhaps this is a good time to weed out all my really awful pictures; meanwhile I feel like just doing nothing - "let it fail" as they said in 2001 A Space Odyssey - see what happens and then proceed from there. (Oh dear, I've just remembered that that incident didn't end too well in the movie; someone went spinning off into space I think - lost forever.)
// posted by Christine @ 4:22 AM 
