Flickr gives each user 1 terabyte for storing photos and videos.

Marissa Mayer (chief executive of Yahoo) has just published an appeal to users of Flickr photo service with some good news.

• New interface ( flickr.com/new ).
• New Android application.
• 1 terabyte of disk space for each user to store photos, for free.

According to Marissa Mayer, a person should last one terabyte for a lifetime: these are 537,731 photos of 6.5 megapixels, based on the resolution of modern smartphones.

According to the current limits , the user can upload photos up to 200 MB in size and 1080p videos up to 1 GB for up to 3 minutes.
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There is no time limit yet, that is, you can fill a terabyte of storage at least a day.

As for the changed interface, this is how the tape was transformed.

It was

It became

New Android application

Link in Google Play

The transformation of Flickr on the day of the purchase of Tumblr should kind of hint that Yahoo no longer intends to "mess" with the purchased web services, from which the founders of the startup usually leave after a couple of years, and then the developers run away. At least it was in the past , before the arrival of Marissa.