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  • The same Flickr who can’t properly upload HEIC/HEIF images from my iPhone via their auto uploadr? Even though every other photo cloud storage service has no issue doing this?! I’m already an unhappy Flickr Pro member who is considering jumping ship.

    • Shaun DaCunha people using Flickr for “auto upload cloud storage” rather than a photography portfolio and photography community web site is what has killed Flickr. Used to be a great place to find interesting photographers, now it’s everyone’s dumping ground.

    • Joe Lippeatt Fair point. But they opened themselves up to that. I mainly use Flickr to host photos that I share on the various forums I belong to.

      • Robert Williams

        I’m like you, I have my website, that has my real portfolio to show to people.
        I have smugmug to sell stuff, and anything that I put up there goes into hidden, and usually password protected galleries so that only the 1 person can see them.
        Then, I have flickr as my dumping ground of crap.

    • Shaun, and imagine all the broken links and lost networking when the site is shut down.

    • Johnny Martyr Already have…won’t be pretty. But my point is some of the blame needs to be pointed in their direction. Mismanagement, products lacking fairly standard features, etc.

    • Shaun DaCunha “opened themselves up to that” how? By having an upload screen? It was one of the first “social” media sites, to share images with family, friends and followers. People abused the unlimited upload policy and used it for a Dropbox for all their garbage. Peoples bad behavior isn’t the websites fault, they are nobody’s momma.

      And what standard features are you missing?

    • Joe Lippeatt You’re clearly taking this very personal. I’ll leave you to your feelings.

  • “Overpriced social network with little to offer begs for money”

  • Is Flickr still a thing?

    • Marius Budu where do you put your photos online ?

    • I funnel everything towards my own website where I have full control over the narrative, content, no censorship, etc.

      I still use Insta and FB as the ways to get attention though which are far from ideal but they are still the most widely adopted social media channels.

  • I have two Flickr accounts one for my photos and one for my 3D photos, and i have no need to upgrade so my answer is no.

    • Ian, then you’re part of the problem

    • Johnny why? If they offer free membership then it’s their own fault, I also have 500px account and their not in trouble.

  • Marcell Nikolausz

    I’ve just downgraded from pro to normal account (after they increased the price to the double)

  • Flickr is dead, they just don’t know it yet.

    • John, dead for folks who don’t know how to use it effectively. Images on it still have better SEO than FB and IG.

  • Use Flickr merely for the back up reasons. So yes, still pay for pro account 14 years later

  • I’ve had my pro membership for years. Still viable to reach a worldwide audience. I get thousands of views from around the world.

  • If I were to give any website money, it’d be Wikipedia.

  • i dropped flickr a couple years ago. it’s a shame how badly yahoo treated it, killed usability, and now is wondering why people won’t pay for it.

    • Alex Minkin Yahoo is long gone, these folks running it saved it from Yahoo.

  • Only thing i open Flickr is when i want to see samples of any Lens from people

  • it’s the same as photobucket, just making sure nothing is hosted with them that I use.

  • When the common response is “ who still uses ___?” then you know it’s over.

  • I’ve been on a pro account for so long I can’t remember and don’t even notice the small charge. I get many more impressions on Flickr than FB and my posts on Flickr have lead to numerous successful publications of my photography as well as simply meeting many great photographers.

    I also use the site as a quick and dirty way to backup my best photos and to resize them for use online.

    Flickr has long been an important part of my photo ecosystem!

    • 0702marty

      To each, his or her own. Flickr may be just what the doctor ordered for some users … and not so much for others.

      Seems to me that if the user base gets winnowed down to those who find value for the price, then SmugMug has few choices:

      – find an alternate source of funding (eg. GoFundMe)
      – beg visitors annually for donations (eg. Wikipedia)
      – raise user fees enough to keep the boat afloat
      – abandon the ship all together

      As in any business, it all boils down to the money people (users, visitors, patrons) are willing to pay for the value that is being offered.

  • Absolutely Not paying

  • Well, I expect my free Flickr account is still active… but it has been at least 5+ years since I have even looked at it.

    Nah… somehow sending money into a sinking ship isn’t in my particular cards…

  • Robert Williams

    I’ve been a flickr pro user since 2008, and was kind of annoyed at the email, since my flickr fee went from $20 to $50, the service was horribly unreliable for months, and I’m also a Smugmug Portfolio user who’s smugmug fees had gone from $150 a year, to $180 in the last year or two. So, I’m paying $60 a year more, and seeing no real benefit, AWESOME!

  • I’ve been using flickr, its better for viewing the photos as they were intended by the photographer without the compression that Facebook applies to them. There are many Facebook photography groups particularly film groups that contain loads of crap photos with bad colour balances, too lower contrast etc… that get plenty of likes, this does not seem to be so common on flickr.

  • Burt Johnson

    You needed a fourth option on your vote — “I didn’t know Flickr still existed!?”

    I think my account may still exist, but I haven’t logged on in 5+ years, and don’t see any reason to do so now…

    • Ahmet

      Haha, same here. I totally forgot about it. Now tried to log in. Well, didn’t work really. I had to bring back to life my Yahoo account, to do that I had to find password for another old secondary e-mail account. No, didn’t work. Probably got deleted for inactivity.

  • Nope. . . I like Flickr platform, too bad the pro account is way over priced since 2014. Used to be much cheaper and discounts for past accounts. I missed renewing one year and they removed all my previous images, that sucked. Gave it another chance, then they doubled the price.

    • totally agree and for me there is not advantage for going pro.

    • Ian Brace , yup… if one wishes to upload to the max of 1000 images its free. I lost over 6,000 images at once 😞 fortunately i use USB drives as my personal backup.

    • Michael, $50 a year is too much? So you’d rather pay social media with your personal data? Yeah, that makes sense! 😉

    • Ian, that is factually incorrect. Something you seem to share with most of the people posting negative remarks here; you’re uninformed.

    • Johnny Martyr yes, i am on a limited budget. Not a Pro.

    • Johnny Martyr it’s not factually incorrect as across two accounts I have only post 113 photos so again tell me why I should go Pro? I’d rater subscribe to things that I get my moneys worth out of.

  • You can’t fault SmugMug for trying to save Flickr. I subscribe to both and think unlimited storage for less than £40 a year is a no brainer. 📷📸😀 Just my tuppence worth. 😀

  • I used to be active on Flickr. I loved the groups. I even had a pro account so that I could store unlimited images at Max resolution and quality, without concerns that my images would be up for grabs by third party partners of Flickr.
    Then Flickr was taken over by yahoo, who removed the unlimited storage for pro members. Then smug smug removed the copyright protection of my images, leaving me with none of the benefits that drew me to the pro account on the first place.
    Thus I cancelled my pro account.

    I would go back to Flickr pro if it became unlimited again, and if they would not give partners access to my copyrighted materials.

  • Probably yes.

  • I cancelled my pro membership since they wanted twice the money. 😔 There are a lot more ways to show photos.

  • Pro member since 2009.

  • I ve had over 1,000,000 views on my Flickr. Many publications came from this Avenue, it needs to stay if you want to spread your work and make some sales. It would be a real shame if it were to be taken down.

    • James Gordon Patterson

      Yes, I still post to Flickr because sometimes I get sales! Seriously. People who buy look at Flickr. And I promote both my Flickr and SmugMug accounts on social media.

  • What kind of Bullshit is this.. If you provide a good service, the people will do it themselves…

  • James Gordon Patterson

    I’ve had a pro account for ages and will stick with it. I am also on SmugMug.

  • Stephen Nesbit

    I had a pro membership since Flickr started. But then it became plagued by so many problems, changed hands, and when Smug mug bought it, they promised nothing would change. Except within 2 months I got an email telling me my price would more than double AND there was no more unlimited, and I wouldn’t have the same copyright protection. I had over 6,000 pictures there but i was tired of the mess. So I simply my deleted it. Going to build my own website. And now they look to raise the price again.

  • Ben Johnson

    Flickr sucks after Smugmug bought. It’s always one continuous problem after another. I see no positive changes whatsoever. One week feature x breaks. Two weeks later feature y breaks. Right now I can’t remove my photos from a group; only add them to a group. The “help” desk always blames your computer instead of looking at it being a problem on their end.

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