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Flickr teams up with Pixsy to protect photographers from image theft

Apr 9, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

According to a recent report, as many as 2.5 billion online photos get stolen every day. A new strategic partnership between Flickr and Pixsy aims…

Flickr protects Creative Commons images and “In Memoriam” accounts from deletion

Mar 11, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Since Flickr got acquired by SmugMug, there have been some significant changes on the platform. One of them is the 1000-image limit for Free accounts,…

Flickr is finally ditching the Yahoo login system

Mar 4, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Back in November 2018, Flickr announced that it was going to ditch the mandatory Yahoo login system. And now it’s finally happening. Over the next…

Why limiting free users to 1,000 photos on Flickr is a smart move

Nov 4, 2018 Thomas Hawk

Yesterday Flickr made their first big restructuring announcement since recently being purchased by SmugMug. Beginning next year on January 8th, Flickr will limit free accounts to 1,000…

Big changes coming to Flickr – and they’re ditching mandatory Yahoo logins

Nov 1, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Since Flickr was acquired by SmugMug, I have been wondering what changes this will bring to the not-so-popular-anymore platform. And now the big changes are…

Is Flickr Still A Relevant Social Media Outlet? Yes – and You Should Use It!

Apr 22, 2018 JP Danko

Years ago I had a Flickr account – I didn’t use it much and it languished in oblivion until at some point Flickr deleted it….

Breaking news: Surprise – Flickr bought by SmugMug, swears to make Flickr awesome again

Apr 21, 2018 Udi Tirosh

Here is something we did not see coming. SmugMug, a photo management company, just bought Flickr, one of the foundation pillars of online photo sharing. The…