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Data lifeboat..

It’s a great idea but the whole point having a lifeboat archive of all your photos is affordability to get that lifeboat. Images are great and I have 19000 of them from 20 years on the platform. It’s. A great idea. Looks good but in practice no one’s using it as a full backup as intended because it’s so damn expensive. Bear in mind the price may be USD (it’s unclear but it’s Flickr so almost surely USD) Making a full backup to a data vault may be nearly $500 aud.

 

Great idea that no one will use for its intended purpose due to the costs.

 

Fascinating as Flickr’s own backup tools are rather capricious and unpleasant to use.

 

Buy hey pay us money you get your photos.

 

It’s another way smugmug is trying to make money off the business and as usual it’s expensive and boutique. And useless because of the arbitrary tiers and high cost of what’s obviously an automated product. So money for jam for smugmug

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Uploaded on January 13, 2026
Taken on January 13, 2026