Yahoo unveils the new Flickr with one terabyte of free space

[Jonny.Wong.16]

Yahoo has just announced a complete redesign of Flickr at its New York City event — the new site is live now and it comes with one terabyte of free photo space. Yahoo SVP Adam Cahan just made the announcement and said that "Flickr had become about words, little images, blue links. It was not about the photo anymore." But the new photostream changes that, will full-resolution images and a clean homepage with all the emphasis on images — it looks a lot like the Instagram web profile header.

However, the big news is the free space — "we want all of your images," said Cahan. He said it was 70 times bigger than what other sites offer, and said it could store 537,731 photos in "full quality."

 

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/20/4349442/yahoo-unveils-the-new-flickr-with-one-terabyte-of-free-space [The Verge]

Source: https://secure.flickr.com [Flickr]

 

Holy amazeballs! 1TB of photo storage! I didn't think Yahoo had the resources to offer this given their performance over the past few years, but I guess I was wrong. What do you guys think about this? Do you think services like Google and Dropbox follow suit and upgrade the amount of free space that they offer?

[samuel]

how about the fact that facebook doesn't even have a storage limit?

yeah yeah, I know it sucks!

[Morfy]

Thanks alot, i was looking for a place to backup all my pics and videos, nice find!

[Jonny.Wong.16]

how about the fact that facebook doesn't even have a storage limit?

yeah yeah, I know it sucks!

 

I believe Facebook reduces your photos to 2048px whereas Flickr allows you to upload your full size images. Google also gives unlimited space for photos 2048px or smaller.

[mgsstar]

Wow! 1TB of storage. Thats great for high res pictures! Thanks for this news item Jonny.Wong.16! :)

[zeros]

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/20/4349442/yahoo-unveils-the-new-flickr-with-one-terabyte-of-free-space [The Verge]

Source: https://secure.flickr.com [Flickr]

 

Holy amazeballs! 1TB of photo storage! I didn't think Yahoo had the resources to offer this given their performance over the past few years, but I guess I was wrong. What do you guys think about this? Do you think services like Google and Dropbox follow suit and upgrade the amount of free space that they offer?

I just came across this on BSN and had to make a search on this topic, I'm amazed, and glad to see this. Awesome stuff!

[Blade of Grass]

WOOT! More storage space!!!!

Since all the pro photogs use it I'm surprised they didn't do this before hand.

[dylandylandylan]

Whaaaaat! Is that private storage?! I wonder if they scrub your data to make sure you're not uploading any copyrighted stuff ..