Thank you Sue and Clay for bringing this to our attention and making sure this has been available to each member of the group. i personally am prepared to donate $20 via PayPal towards the payment for 2019 to whomever will host this continuance. it is a very valuable tool for our group and we need to keep Arachne strong. please let me know where to send this when the time comes and a decision is made. thank you again.
Hugs, Lin and the Mali [image: http://www.amazing-animations.com/animations/goodmorning15.gif] [image: ðŸ¤â] On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 4:47 PM Sue Babbs <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > - 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/
