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		olliej on Dec 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SmugMug emails subscribers with request to find mo... How much of the running costs of Flickr are from hosting the free portion? How much does the paid portion cost? Mostly I’m wondering, is there any value to having the free portion anymore?

lathiat on Dec 20, 2019 [–]

In most cases it's a valuable gateway to getting new users

They already removed all but 1000 photos from free accounts, which given they're now paying AWS per byte for storage makes sense I guess.

olliej on Dec 22, 2019 | [–]

It’s more what is the functional cost of acquisition, and is it less than the per user revenue of the paid acccounts?

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