[danso]

It might be psychological on Flickr's end too, as developers no longer have to propose new features that have the requirement of scaling with a high-resource-consuming free tier.

[wrs]

But that's my point — how is the resource consumption changing if hardly anybody is kicked out? Is there a tiny number of people storing a terabyte of photos each? But if the number of people is tiny, how can that be affecting the community feeling?

[pkaye]

Those few people who store petabytes of videos was enough for even Amazon to boot them off their storage product.