![]() Ignore Flickr’s new guidelines, and here’s what you’ll face over the next few months: The era of the free terabyte of Flickr storage is coming to an end. These photos can be any size you want, but you only get a thousand of them. ![]() We’ve reached out to Flickr to ask how its recruitment drive went and we will update this article if we hear back.Flickr isn’t going away, but a lot of your photos will be if you don’t follow its new limitations: 1,000 photos, period. In December 2020, SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill said that when it took over the company, Flickr was losing “tens of millions of dollars a year.” He explained that although his team has been working hard to get the accounts back in order, it really needs more people to sign up for a Pro membership “if we want to keep the Flickr dream alive.” The company said it had been prompted to increase its prices because “Flickr is a huge and extremely costly service to run,” adding, “We intend to keep investing in making it even better, but it cannot continue to operate at a loss.”įlickr was acquired by photo-sharing and image-hosting site SmugMug in 2018. An array of stats on the performance of your Flickr page are also available. Pro members get unlimited, full-quality storage for their images, and ad-free browsing for themselves and visitors to their page. ![]() “For example, if your current subscription expires in July 2020 and you choose to renew now, we will add an additional year to your subscription at the 2019 price, extending your subscription end date to July 2021,” Flickr explained in a message posted online this week. If you’re wondering what happens to the remainder of your current subscription, Flickr says it will extend the term of your current Pro subscription. All others are invited to add a one- or two-year term. ![]() Monthly subscribers are invited to lock in a one- or two-year term at the 2019 rate, while annual subscribers with a renewal date prior to July 1 can add two years now. If you currently have a Flickr Pro account, you can extend your subscription at a discounted rate by hitting this link. ![]()
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