I’m not sure what happened, but I suspect it has something to do with linking my wordpress.com account to my Google Photos account.
I’ve been using wordpress.com since 2012. I started out with a free account and used that until… 2017? I figured all this out a few weeks ago but now I’m too pissed off to look it up. I went back to wordpress.com in 2018. From the start of the first account until April 2019 I used 3GB worth of storage space. All for pictures. When I ran out of the space allotted to a free account (I’m pretty sure it’s 3 gigs, but again I am too ticked off to look it up) I upgraded to a paid account with 6GB of storage. Earlier tonight I ran out of space again. So late 2012 to April 2019 used 3 gigs, and April 2019 to October 2019 used 3 gigs.
The only thing different between the usage of the storage space in the two time periods was my recent connecting to Google Photos. I had hoped that pulling a photo from Google would use a Google hosted copy of it. It doesn’t. It actually pulls it into wordpress.com’s storage. That’s why I haven’t used it on more than a couple of posts. Why bother if it isn’t going to save me space.
Tonight I went through all of October’s posts and replaced most of the wordpress hosted images with Flickr hosted images. This is great when I am writing a post on my computer, but it doesn’t work when I want to post images via the mobile app on my iPhone or iPad. I cleared off about 1.5% of the space, so I am okay to post from mobile again for a while, but I need to make a habit of going back and editing those posts to use images from Flickr. I could upgrade my wordpress account again too, the next level has 12GB of storage, but if six months was all it took to burn off 3 gigs, why even bother. I’ll just have to upgrade again in a year. Screw that.
Maybe I should just say the hell with it and go back to my original Blogger account.
And to add insult to injury, the Bruins are losing 2-1 to the friggin’ Maple Leafs, about halfway through the second period. The Astros vs Yankees ALCS game just started so I can’t even take solace in the Yankees trailing. There’s no score yet. DAMN YOU, UNIVERSE!
In a colossal image-hosting-screw-you to the image hosting universe, here’s a picture of a much, much skinnier (but still way overweight) me from 2006, posing with Chewbacca. At least Flickr still loves me.
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