I was a Pro member, though a light user. My concerns with Flickr are my concerns with all photo sharing sites, online storage, etc: We don't control our content and I don't trust that the providers will always have my best interests as top priority.
As far as replacements, I've dabbled with Google's Picasa-web but the same issue exists. I may just install my own thing on this web server and perform regular local archiving... Since my last ISP (1&1) turned off FTP on me after Digg brought down their server. Fortunately, I figured out I could ssh in and ftp out to another location to salvage and relocate my site (to Media Temple).
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That's a pretty drastic move, assuming you were still using your Flickr account. May I ask what service you're using now?
BTW, about 30 seconds after posting that comment I noticed that Flickr has responded with an apology over the incident. http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2007/05/sometimes_we_ma.html
I was a Pro member, though a light user. My concerns with Flickr are my concerns with all photo sharing sites, online storage, etc: We don't control our content and I don't trust that the providers will always have my best interests as top priority.
As far as replacements, I've dabbled with Google's Picasa-web but the same issue exists. I may just install my own thing on this web server and perform regular local archiving... Since my last ISP (1&1) turned off FTP on me after Digg brought down their server. Fortunately, I figured out I could ssh in and ftp out to another location to salvage and relocate my site (to Media Temple).