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Worldisround Help  -  Premium Accounts  -  Photo Storage

Free users: 500 photos Free
Premium users: Unlimited photos $29.95/year
Per-photo size limit: 3MB Free
Upload traffic: Unlimited Free
Photo viewing traffic: Unlimited Free

Personal Photo Storage Limits for Free Users
As a Free member of Worldisround you can upload hundreds of personal photos. Our limits are as straightforward as possible: you have a maximum total number of photos that you can upload.

You can upload large photos (up to 3MB per photo) without worrying about the surprise monthly bandwidth limits that other services might hit you with.

Personal Photos are Unlimited for Premium Users
When you upgrade to a Premium account you are no longer bound to the old 1000-photo limit. You can post 100,000 photos. 1,000,000 photos. And you can use our Image Hosting features to use your photos on other sites.
Travel Photos are Unlimited
Whether you have a Free account or a Premium account, you can upload as many travel photos as you like. Upload millions, if you like. But make sure that you know the difference between personal and travel articles first! (We started out as a travel photo sharing site, but many users have adopted us for all their photo sharing needs.)
Hitting the Limit
We try to be open and honest about the limit, without going all Pit-and-Pendulum on our users about it. So we expect you to go over the limit and to be a little confused when you get our gentle reminder message. (Don't worry, we're not going to immediately delete your photos and kick you off the site. That would be really bad for both of us.) This is how it works:
  • You publish some new photos and you've suddenly gone over the limit.
  • The next morning, Worldisround sends you an e-mail telling you that you're over the limit. You can't upload any more photos, but all of your published articles are unaffected.
  • Two weeks later, if you are still over your limit, you are sent another e-mail. Your personal photos can no longer be viewed and image hosting is disabled for Premium users.
  • Sometime after that, we might delete your photos. We haven't actually done this yet (as of September 2007) because we wanted to release the new, friendlier storage limits first.

Make sure that you can receive e-mails from Worldisround. If you aren't checking your Worldisround account and you aren't getting the warning messages from Worldisround, you could end up losing your Worldisround account.

How to Get More Storage
To get more personal photo storage you will need to upgrade to a paid Premium account ($29.95/year), which will give you unlimited photo storage.

We occasionally grant bonus storage to users. Sometimes as an apology. Sometimes because they've given us helpful feedback. Sometimes we grant personal storage to prolific contributors of travel photos. Sometimes we just feel like giving it away. We have no real system for this and it totally based on our personal biases. Bonus storage is permanent, can be added to Free accounts, and does not go away when your Premium account expires.

Unpublished Photos
Unpublished photos are not currently counted against the storage limit. Always make sure to save changes to articles and publish your articles since unpublished articles/photos and unsaved changes may be deleted. (Unpublished photos also cannot be hosted.)