Few weeks ago I was looking for some website, that could aggregate my images. I was using Picasa Web Albums, but I don’t like it. I prefer to use it just for some kind of private photos, or something like that. I was looking for some kind of website, which could help me in creating collection of really well-designed websites or parts of websites. Flickr looks good, so that’s why I just started to using it.

After few weeks and upload some screenshots (174 images) – when I signed in to my flickr‘s account today I saw the message:

I didn’t know about it.

I don’t want to upgrade my account.

I don’t need more functionalities – I just want to upload more images.

Especially I don’t need more stats to my account, ad-free browsing and sharing or HD playback for high-definition video uploads.

Maybe the price ($24.95) is not so much… but I still don’t want to pay for it. I could pay for more functionalities (HD playback, more professional stats, upload files in other formats or some useful add-ons to my browser), I could pay for more space on my account (like in gmail), I could pay for ad-free browsing and sharing. However… I simply don’t want to pay for upload more than 200 images on my account. This limit is too low(!)

I know that flickr needs to earn money. It’s normal. However… is this kind of solutions are good practice? I think not. Especially when there are so many websites, where there are not so low limits.

What do you think about it?