![]() Or that anyone will be satisfied by the new 1000 photo limit knowing it used to be 200. I guess their dice roll is to not worry about the ingrates who were not paying. I cannot imagine any way for the new owners of flickr to surmount Yahoo’s inexplicable insane colossally stupid idea to offer unlimited image hosting to all free accounts.īut if flickr wants to not alienate their community, why are they doing it right off the bat? No one who has the photos deleted is going to say nice things about the company. We also recognize that many of the clues for how best to build the future of Flickr can be found in our own, rich history. ![]() To be candid, we’re driving toward the future of Flickr with one eye on the rearview mirror we’re certain that Flickr’s brightest days lay ahead, but we remain acutely aware that past missteps have alienated some members of our community. So I did read all of Why We are Changing Flickr Free Accounts: Several thoughts from your old pal Jason. Users have until January (60 days from now) to decide to upgrade to pro/paid or their oldest still will get deleted. ![]() So, SmugMug made a decision: Delete all oldest photos in any free accounts until 1,000 are left. My first sources of information about the new plans to change flickr’s free accounts came not from the company, to whom I have paid pro memberships going way back, but first via a tweet from Jason Scott (who has been on a great barrage of conversations there) I have over 61,000 photos sitting there which has benefited me many times over in unexpected ways. I’ve seen all of the prognostications of its death after its sale to Yahoo and absorption into Yahoo and more recently the sale to SmugMug. I’ve had a 14+ year loving relationship with flickr since joining in maybe March 2004.
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