Phil GyfordFeb 17

I wonder what percentage of people paying for Flickr annually are, like me, thinking, “£74 is too much for something I rarely post to, but I feel held hostage by the 20 years’ worth of old photos I’m hosting on it.”

Every year I wonder what to do, and never reach a conclusion.

Show threadPhil GyfordFeb 17
Maybe £74/year is OK for hosting 4,900 photos taking up 11.6 GB? But given I rarely see or use them, it _feels_ like too much, every year forever.
Show threadPhil GyfordFeb 17

Something like this seems a good idea (makes a static site of your Flickr photos and data) https://github.com/aaronpk/Flickr-Archivr

My own https://django-ditto.readthedocs.io/ is fine but if I was archiving things, static would be better than a Django site.

GitHub - aaronpk/Flickr-Archivr: Download and archive your entire Flickr account as a static website

Download and archive your entire Flickr account as a static website - aaronpk/Flickr-Archivr

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Show threadPhil GyfordFeb 17
But one thing I do like about having Flickr is somewhere to upload new photos that isn’t Instagram. Not sure how to balance “want to put recent photos online somewhere open” vs “don’t want to run my own dynamic photo website forever”.
Show threadmichael
@philgyford I both mirror Flickr to my own static site generator setup via a python script that calls their api, but support it as I like the community there, one of the few bits of old web I regularly go to still.
Feb 18 at 9:26amWeb
Show threadPhil GyfordFeb 18
@michael I have all the data and could turn on pages mirroring it all on my site. Unfortunately I don't feel a lot of community there now, with so many friends on Instagram.