14 DAY TRIAL // Flickr has recently unveiled a new site and a very interesting new feature, if you can call it that, 1 TB of free storage. That's more than enough even for professional photographers and it's more than any other photo sharing service offers, with a few caveats.
In fact, it's more than any cloud storage service offers as well, for free. It's not surprising then that people have figured out a way to use all this space to store any file you want, not just images, on Flickr.
It's not even that complicated, though it's not exactly as easy as uploading something to Dropbox either.
The trick is to merge the archived file you want to upload with a GIF. This can be easily done from the command line in Windows.
The first step is to archive the file or files you need, most common formats should be OK. You'll also need a GIF file, you can use anything you want.
Once you've got everything set up, open a command line, Windows key + R and enter CMD. In the command line, change the directory to the location of your archive and GIF file.
There, all you have to do is type in "copy /B archive.zip+GIF.gif file_to_upload.gif" and press Enter. You'll have to replace the names with whatever you are using of course.
You can then upload the resulting file to Flickr. It will even display the original GIF on the site. To get the file back, you'll have to use the "download the original size of this photo" option on Flickr.
You'll then have to change the extension of the file to whatever archive type you used (.zip, .rar, .7z) and then extract the files you need. Not all archivers will open this archive though, which will still contain the GIF image data. Redditor rlaw68, who first detailed this method, recommends WinRAR or 7z.
There are some caveats though, several in fact. For one, the file size limit is 200MB on Flickr. Second, you also have a daily upload limit of 300 MB on Flickr it seems. And it's perfectly possible that Flickr will block this in the future.