Hi All We need to put our collective thinking caps on. For many years now, Clay Blackwell has been funding our Arachne Flickr site personally â apparently since 2012. We have more photos (2674) stored there than can be stored on a free Flickr account (1000).
There have been changes to the Flickr account recently and the costs are now $17.95 a quarter. Clay no longer wishes to be responsible for hosting this account. I have been assisting her by maintaining the photos in albums and helping Arachneans post those photos. We need to find a solution for the future for our Flickr account, which will involve getting the account out of Clayâs name into someone elseâs if we are to continue to use it. I have not investigated how this might be done â or, if indeed it is possible to do so. Suggestions as far as I see them are: 1) find someone else willing to host our Flickr account! 2) ask for donations to fund our Flickr account â (Maybe via PayPal donations once a year. 72 x $1 donations would be sufficient at present) 3) find a different platform to store the photos (I have no knowledge on other platforms) 4) suggest people remove their own photos and close down the storage online 5) remove all stored photos and simply go with the reduced storage that the free Flickr account allows. This would allow us to see photos as we wanted to discuss them 6) have multiple free Flickr accounts - starting up a new one as we near the limit of 1000 Please donât just reply to me personally on this, but let the whole list know what you think? Do you want the availability of a photo storage site? Do we need to keep all the photos? Can we archive ones in earlier years? All suggestions welcome â but remember to trim your posts!! I donât have a lot of free time or knowledge to deal with any transfer, so if there is someone out there with internet photo storage skills, now is the time to reveal yourself! Sue [email protected] Sent from my iPad On Jan 15, 2019, at 6:28 PM, Sue Babbs <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Clay Yes, I am fine and enjoying life and being a grandmother. How are you? I donât know what you were paying for Flickr before so Iâm not sure how much of an increase this is, but I sense that it must be a large increase from your reaction. What do you want to do about it? Sue [email protected] From: Mary Blackwell Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 9:14 AM To: Sue Babbs Subject: Re: Flickr account Oops, make that $17.95... Sent from my iPad On Jan 15, 2019, at 10:13 AM, Mary Blackwell <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Sue! Hope youâre well and enjoying your elevated role as Grandmother! As you know, I have enjoyed my role as sponsor of the Flickr account for a number of years. It became so popular that we had to upgrade the service. Today I actually read the receipt for our most recent renewal, and nearly fainted. I am now being charged $18.95 four times a year! My generosity hath been abused, and I will need to cancel this. Have you any suggestions about how to go about this? Clay Sent from my iPad - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
