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They ticked me off many years ago. They went from limited storage for free accounts to 1tb, then back to limiting to just number of photos, period. Whatever you said over there won't necessarily be a repeat over here.
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"Will Flickr delete my photos?
Hi there, We are deleting photos off of free accounts in excess of 1,000 starting with the most inactive accounts first. If a free account has over 1,000 photos, we will delete the oldest photos on the account until the account meets our 1,000 limit."
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Will Flickr shut down?
Without additional paid subscribers, Flickr could shut down in 2020. Flickr can't survive much longer unless you pay up. In an email to users, SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill says Flickr needs free users to sign up for Flickr Pro as soon as possible or Flickr could shut down in 2020.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr
On June 13, 2008, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield announced his resignation on July 12, 2008, which followed that of his wife and co-founder Caterina Fake, who left the company on the same day.[37] Butterfield wrote a humorous resignation letter to Brad Garlinghouse.[38]
On December 14, 2008, The Guardian reported that three employees had been laid off as Yahoo! continued to reduce its workforce,[39] and on November 30, 2010, CNET reported Yahoo! was on the verge of a major layoff affecting 10% to 20% of its workforce. Flickr was specifically named as a target for these layoffs.[40]
On June 13, 2017, Verizon Communications acquired Yahoo!, including Flickr.[41][42] Verizon reorganized Yahoo!, along with AOL, into a new umbrella company, Oath, which was renamed as Verizon Media on January 8, 2019.
On April 20, 2018, SmugMug acquired Flickr from Verizon's Oath and put an end to Flickr 1TB storage plan for free users, these users had until February 5, 2019 to convert to 'Pro' accounts or their photo streams would be reduced to a maximum of 1000 pictures.[6][43] The deadline was later extended to March 12, 2019. The reasons cited were that the existing model was unsustainable by a medium-sized company which could not get revenues by selling profiles of the users. The sentiment was generally agreed on among the professionals.
bruni wrote:
Laura - no, I know not everyone lurks on flickr, that's why I commented again here. Although I follow a lot of "us" on Flickr.
ben
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