Back to basic

[armb]

I got fed up with the adverts, and don't think I'll miss the extra features - if I do, I'll go back to a paid account (though I'm tempted to upgrade my Flickr account to allow more sets - I ought to play with Fotopic and Picasa first though, and anyway my New Year resolution is supposed to be not spending money on things I don't need have a good excuse for, even really cheap things).

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[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

I'm finding Flickr a lot easier to use than fotopic. Their paid accounts are a lot cheaper, too, at the cost of not being able to use their site as a gallery for selling prints & stuff (but, did I mention that fotopic suck?).

[armb.livejournal.com]

Ah. I did notice you had changed and meant to ask why.
unlimited number of "collections" was the main attraction.

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Don't get me wrong, their basic photo hosting is plausible, if clunky. Uploading is faffy; you have to use unencrypted FTP if you want to bulk upload. (Flickr Uploadr FTW.)

They have a moderately annoying feature whereby new collections are often automatically referred for manual checking for T&C compliance, with a probability starting at 0.75 and which decreases as you upload more.

My beef is with their print shop customer service, which was utterly abominable, albeit given a sample size of 1. Next time I'm using a shop to have prints made.