The Flickr Nazi's shit canned my main account, the one I paid my hard earned cash to obtain, on their website, which means all my scans and photos I had on there are now lost. Luckily for me I took all my family photos off it and I put them on my Facebook account. It pisses me off though that I lost all those scans I did of vintage stuff, of book covers, of old yearbooks, and I lost all the photos I had taken including all the pictures from our holiday party, the various festivals around here, and all the other ones as well.
I'll never ever pay them to open a 'pro account' ever again. What I will do is I'll clog them up with hundreds of little accounts and I'll back up all the scans I put on there by posting the same scans to my other blogs Monkey Foto and Monkey Scan or to my Facebook account.
Despite my hatred for the company, I still love all my old Flickr friends and I'll be looking up all the ones I can remember and adding you all to one or another of my accounts.
14 comments:
That blows but I figured they were too bureaucratic to let it slide.
So far, Picasa is the only one that doesn't jerk me around.
They obviously didn't care for your comment about the Library of Congress's Flickr account.
Well, that sucks the big one, Dr. M. I'll subscribe to your photoblog and hope to see you still commenting on MY Flickr photos at least!
As Darius suggested, BTW, there might be other options, like Picasa or there is also Photobucket, too.
Ouch. I was just thinking of switching from Photobucket to flickr, too. Guess I'll stay put for now.
Yes, do BACKUPS!
So what happened with Flickr? I'm really sorry you lost all that time & $...especially the time it takes to scan something, then put it back, where it came from etc. I know there is a lot more to it than "just scannning" something!
I was glad to see DARIUS mention Picasa...I would love to learn hear some real first hand experiences with Picasa...I downloaded it, but never used it yet. Have you thought about trying that (free, by google) software?
Thanks again for posting your bad experience with Flickr Pro...saved me some $$.
The deal with Flickr was someone complained about the vintage cheesecake photos, pics from old Playboys, I had on my account and they changed my account status to 'moderate' from safe. The change to moderate made my stuff be unseeable to anyone who was not my Flickr friend so that meant that many folks could not see the stuff I saved for posterity, which was one of the reasons I wanted to have a 'pro' account so I could save a shitload of stuff. I removed all the stuff that could be remotely considered offensive and I asked them to change my status back. they refused and said that I had to also remove all the scans of all the vintage stuff I had put on there. I told them to go fuck themselves and they deleted my account. But they have not heard the last of me yet...
Unbelievable and you give great vinty pic, monkeymuffin. I am really sorry, doll. Oy vey. Shitfuckers, that's what they are. Now, I want to break up with them.
UGH!!! I hate when that happens... can you start burning them to CD or put them on travel drives?
I cannot believe it and I love flickr so much! why are they such jerks!
Now I know not to get a paid Flickr account.
I am glad that you at least flung some monkey-poo their way.
Fucking rat bastards.
Wow, that is really not right.
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