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Flickr Is Now Deleting Inactive Accounts – Here’s How to Keep Yours
Jul 27, 2026
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Flickr is doing a bit of a cleanup at the moment. On July 15, the platform announced it would start locking, then permanently deleting, empty…
Burned Out by Screens? Flickr’s Photo Festival Brings Photography Back to (Real) Life
Feb 27, 2026
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
It looks like we’re not the only ones craving human connection in the world of bots and AI. Flickr has announced a photo festival, extending…
Discover a Flickr Community: Is Flickr Going Strong Again?
Mar 5, 2025
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Flickr community seems to get stronger again – have you noticed it too? I recently started seeing blog posts and videos from photographers rediscovering the…
Sharing your photos: Should you (re)turn to Flickr in 2025?
Dec 18, 2024
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
If you’ve ever used Flickr, you know it was a site that brought photographers together in a way that felt like home. Born in 2004,…
Here are the cameras that shot Flickr’s best images
Dec 8, 2023
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
I know, I know, cameras don’t take photos, photographers do. But they operate cameras and take fantastic shots with them. Electronics Hub conducted an interesting study to learn about the most loved photos and the cameras used to take them. They analyzed over 1.1 million photos on Flickr, tagged under different genres like architecture, portrait, landscape, fashion, wildlife, and food. The aim was to identify which camera brands and models receive the most “faves” on Flickr.
Twitter vs. Flickr: A View Count Comparison for Photographers
Dec 30, 2022
Thomas Hawk
Yesterday Twitter announced that they were adding view counts to tweets on Twitter. I thought I’d use this announcement to very unscientifically compare the number of…
SmugMug and Flickr start a non-profit to preserve cultural and historic legacies in photography
Dec 14, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
SmugMug and Flickr have joined forces once again, and this time, it’s to expand of their efforts to promote and preserve photography online. They’ve started…
Flickr now limits NSFW photos to paying members only
Mar 18, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Since it was acquired by SmugMug, Flickr has undergone a bunch of changes. In my opinion, mainly positive ones. The company has now announced…
PSA: Google’s free cloud photo storage ends in 2 weeks – Here are eight alternatives
May 16, 2021
John Aldred
Last November, Google announced that its free unlimited photo backup was going to end and it would all fall under the free shared 15GB get…