(09-22-2021, 11:54 PM)Acitta Wrote: Paying users help to pay for the resources used. Hardware and hosting is not free. This is a good service not filled with all the cruft of free social media services.
Storage isn't very expensive (under $0.03/GB/month for S3, which is a premium priced storage service), and most of the people that upload lots of photos are premium members anyways. I'd be happy to pay more for my premium membership if it made a difference, but spread across all premium members it's a pretty small cost. I suspect this policy would result in less than a gigabyte of additional uploads per year, because most of the regulars (that upload most of the photos) are already premium users.