Why is Flickr making money?

[rjlstar]

www.Flickr.com charges if you want to upload more than 200 pics and have more than 3 folders. I see that a ton of people are paying to do this. Why do it when you can go to another free image service without these strict limitations?

I'm asking from a business perspective. This is not a rant.

[Vege]

when people get used to a software they rather pay than move away from a good UI

[Horus_Kol]

I agree with Vege - while I don't have a flickr account, I have done a similar thing on another website (completely different to flickr) where there are free alternatives, but they just don't provide the same quality or user experience... I only paid something like $20 for a lifetime membership at www.librarything.com - I don't know how that compares with flickr, but I thought it was a great deal for being able to expand my online library past the free account limit

[crestind]

It was always very popular, and it has a clean and solid design with few ads. Plus I think the images are compressed less when you upload than on Photobucket and such.

[simon.perl]

Interesting info! about that.

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Thanks
Simon

[TheStalker]

hmm not many pros still, think i will stick to photobucket

[athomas]

I also agree with Vege; no other points to make.

[amatocianmonk]

It may also be that other free sites like photobucket have ads, flickr does not

[erinrichie]

The majority of people are creatures of habit. They get used to a set routine. And many don't like change. PLus you have to move all your photoes takes a little time. Some people aren't that computer savy and don't want to learn a way when they have one that works

[saphy]

I use more than one photo account. That solves the issue

Basically I still think photobucket offers the most features including a variety of slides that you can embed. I like the fact they don't shrink your pics like Picassa does.

I also do use flickr but not as much.
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[Jenie0109]

i noticed when i upload in flickr, your pictures can easily be found in google when they are searched... i dunno if its true to others.
its like facebook...it normally puts you on the first pages of the search engines.