What do you think about the upcoming Flickr membership changes?

If you haven't seen, Flickr Pro is going to be $49.99 moving forward and the 1TB storage cap for free users is going away in favor of a 1,000 image limit. Full post here - https://www.flickr.com​/lookingahead/

Just bringing Flickr into line with the rest of Smugmug plans....

a lot of broken links in this forum in the near future...

marcial4 wrote in post #18741482
a lot of broken links in this forum in the near future...

I am thinking the same thing.

Wow, just checked my account details. $49/PA is now looking cheap, since Smugmug has slipped a 159% price rise on my last payment. It went from $6.95 a quarter to $17.97 which is $71.88 a big jump on the previous $27.80 PA, or the proposed $49. The rise in price of 76% that would be the result of announced rise that is the subject of this thread would probably have been enough to see me cancel my account, so what they have actually done, with a completely unannounced rise of 159% means that I will simply pull my account completely. I guess I'm going to have to break a lot of links here on POTN, and in other places. The last payment was only taken on 20 Oct, so not seen it on a statement yet. I only checked my account details now because I couldn't remember how much the subscription was.

Alan

I recently renewed for two years at the old rate so am feeling more mellow about the increase than would be otherwise.

Even if the increase hit would come sooner, I'd be inclined to stay the course to give Flickr a chance to stay healthy.

I cant even get into mine got 1600 odd photos in there but I lost my Yahoo log in details for it (spare yahoo account it wass just for flickr)


P.

marcial4 wrote in post #18741482
a lot of broken links in this forum in the near future...

^^
This.

I'm not upgrading. @ <700 photos and with scanty shooting I see no reason to add to my overhead.

Pagman wrote in post #18742537
I cant even get into mine got 1600 odd photos in there but I lost my Yahoo log in details for it (spare yahoo account it wass just for flickr)


P.

Yep, that has happened to me twice, one pro account and one free.

I already started breaking mine... I'm not going to wait and let them decide which ones get deleted.

kiwichris wrote in post #18742649
Yep, that has happened to me twice, one pro account and one free.

Kind of feels like a kick in the teeth all those pics that belong to me and I cant get to them


P.

I have a Flickr account, but don't use it that much. I am just guessing but I believe I have less than 300 photos stored there.

I knew nothing about the upcoming change, but it did not surprise me with Smugmug and others already charging a fee.

i've got 31K photos on there...i can't really see any option that makes more sense than the $50...but you can also renew early for 30% off i think...so i'll be doing that...

DreDaze wrote in post #18742725
i've got 31K photos on there...i can't really see any option that makes more sense than the $50...but you can also renew early for 30% off i think...so i'll be doing that...

Did not seem worth it to me... I cancelled everything with Smugmug & Flickr.

Pagman wrote in post #18742678
Kind of feels like a kick in the teeth all those pics that belong to me and I cant get to them

P.

Yeah but what was worse was the total offhand treatment from Yahoo hoo I have never liked. The other thing that upset me was all the contacts, followers and even close friends I lost contact with. My pro account was a gift from a friend, it only lasted a couple of months and stopped working.