Supporting Airframe

Airframe is small and run by one person. Looking at photos is free and always will be, and so is keeping a logbook. Supporting it pays the hosting bill and lets you keep a lot more photos.

Not buyable yet. This page is here so you know what's coming, and paying and refunds is settled in advance rather than written afterwards.

How the limits work

There are two, and you're stopped by whichever you reach first: how many photos you keep, and how much room they take. A count on its own would let somebody store a hundred enormous files. A size on its own is hard to picture and would have you doing arithmetic before every upload.

Archive has no limit on how many photos you keep, only on the room they take between them.

Limits that are the same on every plan

These aren't about what you've paid. They're about what the machine can open, so no plan can raise them.

• 500 MB for any single file.
• 50 megapixels per photo. This one catches people out, because it has nothing to do with the file's size: a photo's pixels all have to be unpacked at once, at about three bytes each. 50 covers every phone and every camera short of professional medium format.
• HEIC, JPG, PNG, TIFF, WEBP files. Camera raw files can't be read: export as JPEG first.
• A photo that's turned down can be sent back 3 times before it's blocked.

Photos waiting to be reviewed count, because they're still being stored. Ones that were turned down don't.

Honest notes

Storing photos costs very little, so these limits aren't really about covering costs. They're here so there's a reason to chip in, and so nobody can sign up twenty times over to get unlimited free storage. The bill that actually needs paying is the server, and a handful of supporters covers it.

Nothing you've already uploaded is ever held hostage. If you stop supporting, your photos stay where they are and stay visible. You just can't add more until you're back under the free limit.