deutsch wrote:I've written Support a couple times in the past month about sequencing issues.
For what it's worth, the sequencing
seems to be working again as of a few hours ago. But I do understand all of the rest of your points. I'm also on Flickr because I know in my bones that it's not an if, but a when PBase finally breaks beyond repair. I haven't had a lot of time for putting up photos of late but when I do I really notice one other difference. Flickr? A couple of hundred views per photo in the first 24 hours. I haven't posted anything to Flickr in months and I still get a few views per day. PBase? Maybe 20 in total across all of my galleries in a week. Maybe. New or old, it doesn't matter. There might be a slight spike when something new goes up but we're talking tens (and not many of those), not hundreds.
deutsch wrote:For $49 a year, Unlimited storage.
Though along with the recent changes and the limitation of free accounts to a thousand images, they've actually increased the base fee to a few cents short of $US60. (With 15% off for those upgrading from freebies until January.) I suspect that further limitations will follow. A thousand is still quite a lot; I joined 11 years ago and am still only at about 2700. I'm therefore not sure it'll drive as many people to pay as they want. Their new masters at Smug Mug have a zero tolerance for free accounts. If you don't pay your dues you'll be harangued by warning e-mails telling you to pay up or your galleries get a bullet... and eventually they deliver on that. I don't think Flickr will go that far since weight of market share is its key selling point and free accounts drive that, but Smug is a very cashflow - conscious firm.
However I wouldn't move everything; just copy it. When the black day finally comes, I'm just going to let mine go down with the ship. I can replicate the photos on Flickr; the comments are a different issue.
Anyway, good luck over there.