{"id":9984,"date":"2006-03-18T17:57:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T14:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/18\/migration-to-flickr-not-so-fast\/"},"modified":"2006-03-18T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T14:57:24","slug":"migration-to-flickr-not-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/18\/migration-to-flickr-not-so-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration to Flickr: not so fast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Flickr upload: 100%<\/a>In the excitement of move to Flickr<\/a>, I totally forgot about one thing – bandwidth limitations. Even when I was reminded that they exist, I simply ignored the signs. Even though I have a professional account that allows for 2 GBytes per month, I should have checked the size of my photo gallery before I started the move.<\/p>\n

I have uploaded albums from 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and a few from 2004, when my limits were out. I checked the size of my entire photo gallery and was somewhat shocked to find out that it was more than 2 year’s worth of uploads at this rate.<\/p>\n

Apparently, there is a thread at Flickr forums<\/a> where several people ask Flickr<\/a> to give them a way to upload more. Even if that means paying more. I joined with ‘me too’. Flickr<\/a> is a nice tool and the more I use the more I like. There are tons of features, and possibly the cleanest user interface out of all webservices out there.<\/p>\n

In the light of this limitation however, I’ll have to somewhat review my migration process.<\/p>\n

Firstly, I’ll be adding new images to my current gallery, not to Flickr<\/a>. Hopefully, I’ll be uploading faster than making new pictures. So, eventually I’ll have it all at Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Secondly, I’ll have to trim my photo gallery a bit. There’s just too much noise, which I don’t care about. Although some people would probably find some pictures pleasurable<\/a>. I’ll be going through the gallery, deleting bad pictures, and slightly compressing the rest of them. Images that come out of my camera are usually bigger than 3 MBytes. But they are totally uncompressed. A reduction of 10% quality, which is not even noticable can bring the image size down to 1 MByte. Before I didn’t have any space or bandwidth limitations, so I didn’t care. Now, I am very willing to sucrifice 10% of quality for 66% of the size. I am not going to resize pictures to 1024×768 though.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, my uploads to Flickr<\/a> will be in large batches. So, instead of adding a few pictures every day, evenly through a month, I’ll be adding a few thousand during the first few days, until I hit my bandwidht limitation. This way, I’ll save a lot of time, albeit will make it hard to follow for those of you who do. That’s temporary though, so, you can ignore me for the time being.<\/p>\n

I guess that’s it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

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