Because all what we have is now
I finally got around to updating my WordPress to the current version 3.5.1. The automatic update didn’t work so I had to do some fiddling with terminal. I realize how quickly I forget about that stuff..
Anyway I notice some really nice improvements about new WP, especially the new media manager.
It seems now that the whole point about the Flickr pricing change is to introduce ads to the customers.
The old Pro membership cost $24.95 and the new ad-free Flickr costs $49,99, as mentioned here.
I rather keep paying the Pro membership and stay happy with unlimited uploads and no ads. I am lucky to have once been pro, since those memberships are no longer being sold. Currently you just have to choose between the three, free member, ad-free or the crazy oddball $499,99 two terabyte plan (which comes with ads I assume).
But who knows, the ads might start to appear to the old pro accounts, there’s nothing stopping Flickr doing that I guess. If that’s going to happen, I am just going to downgrade.
Shitty thing, really.
Wow, so Flickr got refresh. It’s funny since I was just thinking about it.
I generally like the update from the visual sense; especially the default way of viewing photo streams. It just looks much better now that images are arranged into a kind of nice, beautiful layout. The Terabyte thing doesn’t really matter to me since I don’t think I’ll ever upload that many photos and I have pro account anyway which doesn’t have the upload limit.
Overall, I’m really glad about the refresh and the cover photo is nice little touch. See my flickr here.