Flickr Downsizing free accounts

shutterfinger · Mar 17, 2022

I received an email from Flickr today notifying of upcoming changes. Free accounts will be limited to 50 photos.
https://blog.flickr.net/en/2022/03/...ckr&utm_medium=email&utm_content=announcement

removedacct3 · Mar 17, 2022

Free accounts will be limited to 50 non-public photos.

And some NSFW restrictions as well, you now need a paid account for that sort of content. If one ignores explicit pornographic images it becomes painfully obvious that tasteful art and social media do not go well together. Stupid business driven prudishness!

Wondering how Flickr is doing from a business point of view.

BrianShaw · Mar 17, 2022

Free at Flicker seems to have lasted longer than at other sites that started out as free.

sruddy · Mar 17, 2022

Flicker shmicker, bonana ana, icker

sruddy · Mar 17, 2022

I got that email last year and still have all my images. I haven't posted any new ones since though.

cramej · Mar 17, 2022

50 non- public photos..... so that means absolutely 0 public photos without a paid account. They can go suck an egg. I was kinda hoping to utilize it more in the future. Maybe if I start making some money from my photos again someday.

MattKing · Mar 17, 2022

cramej said:
50 non- public photos..... so that means absolutely 0 public photos without a paid account. They can go suck an egg. I was kinda hoping to utilize it more in the future. Maybe if I start making some money from my photos again someday.

No, it means the same 1000 limit for public photos, but only 50 for non-public.
In other words you need to pay if you:
1) use flickr to share more than 50 photos privately;
2) use flickr to share NSFW photos; or
3) use flickr to share more than 1000 photos publicly.
This means that photographers who use flickr to privately share portrait or wedding proofs with their clients, or other businesses who use flickr to privately share work with clients, will have to pay up.
It also means that if you are in charge of privately sharing the more than 50 photos from your last several big family reunions, you will also have to pay.

cramej · Mar 17, 2022

@MattKing Ooooohhhh. The blog post made it sound like they were practically neutering everything.

JNP · Mar 17, 2022

Flickr's great! I can't wait to hear they got rid of all the moochers and pornographers. Their ads aren't evasive either.

GLS · Mar 19, 2022

MattKing said:
3) use flickr to share more than 1000 photos publicly.

And even this last point is unclear. Although this policy is in place they claim to date they have not actually deleted a single photo beyond 1000 on any account. Take that FWIW.

pentaxuser · Mar 19, 2022

cramej said:
@MattKing Ooooohhhh. The blog post made it sound like they were practically neutering everything.

Is that what blog posts are for? . That why we have Matt to keep things grounded in his post

pentaxuser

macfred · Mar 19, 2022

pentaxuser said:
Is that what blog posts are for? . That why we have Matt to keep things grounded in his post pentaxuser

Honours and Glory for our Canadian Moderator !

MattKing · Mar 19, 2022

It is more to do with my near lifetime of proofreading and document creation!

shutterfinger · Mar 19, 2022

When I first read the blog and started this thread I read it as a cost cutting measure and nothing more.
I have a old account from the yeahoo days that I cannot delete or add to as the yeahoo email is long defunct.
I will not rely on Flickr to store photos, just a place to share/sell them.

removedacct1 · Mar 19, 2022

"The above changes mean that for free accounts, photos over the 50 non-public photo limit or any moderate or restricted photos will be at risk of deletion."

I am amazed how many people have totally misinterpreted the Flickr announcement, assuming it means they are going to be booted off the platform if they don't pay. Doesn't anybody READ anymore??
MattKing provided all the clarification you need, above.

cramej said:
50 non- public photos..... so that means absolutely 0 public photos without a paid account. They can go suck an egg.

shutterfinger said:
I received an email from Flickr today notifying of upcoming changes. Free accounts will be limited to 50 photos.

MattKing · Mar 19, 2022

paulbarden said:
"The above changes mean that for free accounts, photos over the 50 non-public photo limit or any moderate or restricted photos will be at risk of deletion."

I am amazed how many people have totally misinterpreted the Flickr announcement, assuming it means they are going to be booted off the platform if they don't pay. Doesn't anybody READ anymore??
MattKing provided all the clarification you need, above.

In defense of everybody who misread the information, the syntax of "photos over the 50 non-public photo limit" is clunky at best.
Much better would be something like:
"If you have more than 50 of your photos stored as "non-public" photos, and you have a free account, then the excess over the 50 limit will be at risk of deletion".

shutterfinger · Mar 19, 2022

Photos take server space. Server space takes $$ or is it $$$ to operate.

Duceman · Mar 19, 2022

Just pay for an account. Problem solved, no?

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