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a waning era, more hours, broken records.
2019-01-15 @ 9:07 p.m.
god, i'm writing so much. but i'm just having so many opinions! so flikr is now limiting accounts to 1k photos. or, you can go "pro" for fucking $50/year. i have been there for so fucking long. i made so many friends in the groups there, learned so much in my hobby, did so much business through my photos. i've been there through the different ownerships and iterations of the site. and i can honestly say that this is such bullshit, and i think what is going to end up killing it save a very small community. in recent years, they just kept implementing these major changes of functionality and the way your photos displayed (pretty fucking important for a photography site) and the way users could comment and communicate with each other. and each of these changes were fucking horrible. at some point flikr was purchased by yhoo who also owned tmblr at the time (i think they still do), then more recently sold to some random company i've never heard of. but in those days insta was coming up fast, and so was pntrst. clearly someone high up at flikr was like oh shit we need to be more competitive. we need to be more like them, because they're so hot right now. but that's not what your fucking userbase wanted!! it's like they took those little special things that made flikr different from the other sites in a good way and decided that THOSE were the things they were going to kill. i hated it then and i hate it now, but i've stuck around because some of the old heads in my hobby are still there and i want to keep in touch. i've known some of these people for 10 years! we've all watched our families grow up, change, we've seen marriages and trips and comings and goings, houses have been bought and sold and people have changed continents. i have such love for what it used to be. but now, after all of that has passed, and there are fewer and fewer of us, they want us to start paying for ... what. nothing? over time, they gradually took away more and more features and now want to give them back, but only if you pay? what the fuck am i getting from you in return? a shadow of what this used to be. fuck that. i keep getting the reminder emails and i kept going back, looking at the "features," thinking that i was going to just pay until i backed up my photos elsewhere. and then i was like wtf, i'm not capitulating like that. i'm just going to pay goog since i have an andrd phone and mail already. at least now i'll have extra backup for my phone photos. it's only 29.99 for 200gb for a year, and i have the bonus feeling of satisfaction that i'm not paying fucking ransom. listen, when i have disposable income, i'm the first one to pay or even pay extra for something that i think is worth it. i'm not a hardcore bargain hunter. boss and his family are the kind of people who will love a terrible restaurant because it was cheap, and hate a classy place with excellent food if they perceive it to be too expensive. i'll spend $20 on a cup of gelato and be happy about it if it's excellent quality and i like it. in fact, i actually spend $20 on takeout ramen from this nearby place, or $30 on sushi from another from time to time, and boss will be like omg how much was that? and i'll tell him, and he'll say he just doesn't like it on principle. i'm so not like that. what i'm getting at is that it wasn't about the price. i just think it's really fucked up that they're doing us like this, and really sad to see it. i guess i'm just going to back up my stuff, delete a bunch of albums, and keep my email address there for anyone looking for me. goodbye to an era. unrelated, boss is trying to give me so many more hours doing this side project he suddenly started. he keeps on taking on so many things that he can't handle as it is, especially being one man down since MS left. that's super cool, but i keep telling him that i work exactly as many hours as i want to! but he's like oh but i'd rather pay you than anyone else, and extra money is really good, and i know if you do it it'll be exactly how i want it and you'll do it right. yeah ...... i don't know man. i guess i'll try it for a couple of weeks to see if i feel like putting in that much extra time. he was kind of vague about how many actual hours he wanted me to dedicate to this, but i know him well enough to know that our ideas are completely different. anyway, we'll see. i went to do some stuff at the state and one guy i always chat with was like hey did you hear we're supposed to get a noreaster this weekend? uuuuuuuuuuughh, really? i'm so not in the mood! the 10 day says this saturday AND next saturday are supposed to snow. i'm going nuts, i need to get out of the house. i hate to take off a saturday and just stay home all day - i always feel guilty, like i should just go there. i can look out the window and see them working and i'm just laying on the couch. i always feel like i might as well. but i also kind of need a break. hmmmmmm. anyway, i'm just living for payday next week. it's so exciting to have a budget and follow it and have money in savings and also get stuff that i want. i said to my therapist, can you even imagine living for 6 years in your own house, in a relationship with someone, and what YOU need is always, always the last consideration. you watch them buying stuff for themselves that just sits in the box for years, boxes filling up corners of your house, but the water is getting turned off. every time you receive some extra money and your partner knows about it, they either "need" you to spend it on them for some reason or just blatantly refuse to pay their portion of whatever bills, passive-aggressively forcing you to spend your money while they get to conserve their funds for what they choose. i am so, so, so thankful i am free of that life. each day is better and better. everything is good, so good. i'm a broken record but it's the best song. |