Back in April 2007, a Yuku user asked “so do we really have 1TB of image space?“ adding that it sounded “ridiculously high, and quite misleading” which was my conclusion too.
However, a Yuku representative replied, saying:
“I thought that there was not actually a limit… so I guess you could say 1TB.
“I have no idea on the actual answer.”
Excellent stuff…
Another Yuku representative then relayed what she had been told:
“You are limited in amount of pictures you can save in a album, but you are allowed to make an unlimited amount of albums. So it really is nearly unlimited.
“I believe we have the right to limit that at some point.”
It fell to another Yuku user to provide the definitive answer to the question - she pasted in part of an e-mail she had received when her board was moved from ezboard to Yuku:
“In addition, we have added some new features:
1. Search - fast and accurate search that works
2. Free Image Hosting - 1TB of storage to host jpegs, gifts, bmps, pngs
3. Posts Don’t Fall Off the 20th Page - unlimited storage of posts
4. Advanced Private Messaging - 4GB of storage for you, friends list, ignore list, mark as unread
5. Profiles With More Customization Options - (e.g. embed videos/music, choose from a list of ready-made designer skins, HTML blocks that you can edit any way you want, etc).”
[emphasis added]
There are further examples of the 1TB storage limit being mentioned in this message board post.
Now then, 1TB is 1,048,576Â MB. So when someone apparently ran out of image storage, they raised a query on Yuku and were told that:
“Ok, it should be fixed now.
“Log out and then log back in for it to take effect. You should then have 30MB of space for images.”
[emphasis added]
Only 30MB? Of course as the Yuku Help Wiki has been down for a while now, I cannot check there what limit there really is on image storage size.
Fortunately, Yuku came to the rescue recently: an ezboard I once posted on has been migrated to Yuku and so that old ezboard account was migrated over as well - without my agreement, I hasten to add - and an e-mail (with the usual Yuku grammar errors) sent to me, telling me about Yuku:
“In addition, we have added some new features:
• Search: fast and accurate search that works
• Free Image Hosting: 30MB of storage to host jpegs, gifts, bmps, pngs
• Posts Don’t Fall Off the 20th Page: unlimited storage of posts
• Advanced Private Messaging: 4GB of storage for you, friends list, ignore list, mark as unread
• Profiles With More Customization Options: (e.g. embed videos/music, choose from a list of ready-made designer skins, HTML blocks that you can edit any way you want, etc).”
[emphasis added]
Compare that to the details sent out in April 2007. Yes, ezboard, Inc. has reduced the storage allowance by a factor of nearly 35,000!
Funny how they kept quiet about that…