Big Flickr Change for some!

If you have a Flickr account and have over 1,000 images, soon you will have to either pay for the Pro or they will delete your oldest shots first until you meet their limit.

https://www.theverge.c​om …zX7aav25l3N6kqe​FNHXcGlxLo

I definitely understand, I never understood how they can give us that much for free anyway.
This is not good news for a lot of us, but, things change...

Well, this will align Flick more with the needs of Pro and advance amateur photogs, and drive the rest to either Google Photos (unlimited and free) or Onedrive (paid but comes with tons of goodies like MS Office).

Personally, I am not 100% sure what I will do... might as well just get a Onedrive / Office subscription, I don't share tons of photos.

I'm not gonna pay. Period.

Paying for a service you use is fine, nobody owes us anything for free.

That said, $50 a year is just too much for what I am using Flickr for - mainly, browsing through personal photos so that we could watch them on our phones and tablets from anywhere.

I just realized that Amazon Prime Photos provides unlimited full resolution storage and backup. Since we are paying for Prime anyway, and getting very good value out of it, I will most likely move all my photos to AP and only keep my Flickr account for sharing to groups. APP is fairly limited as far as photo management (e.g. no way to read Exif) but it's good enough for what I need.

Given how cheap it is to store terabytes of data, I think SmugMug could easily lower the price for basic accounts to $20, offer say 250gb vs 1 TB, make videos a Pro feature, and still make money on people who are otherwise going to leave. Their bet is likely that enough users will convert to the $50 account to justify the hike.

It's just the principle of the situation. What was offered freely before I'm not going to pay for now because they want to change the rules. Just rubs me the wrong way.

By the way...does Amazon Prime Photos work with desktops?

if it were the same owners who all of a sudden decided to charge us $50, then it would be a different story.

but, new owners, new rules.

End results are the same. $50 for what was free.

Amazon Prime Photos has a desktop app for backing up / restoring your photos, or you can just drop them onto browser window.

It is a very feature limited service, but I expect it to add more features as it grows in popularity. I just realized that they only charge $12 per year for 200 GB if you are not a Prime member... that would cover the needs of 90% of people.