Flickr to begin deleting images over the 1K limit starting tomorrow for free accounts

I don't really understand how my comment about it costing the equivalent of a readily available commodity a month (a latte) touched such a raw nerve. Its an expensive passion we are in. If it cost me 50 quid a year to cycle on the roads or jog in my local park I'd understand the annoyance but having near 4k images taken over ten plus years, I'm going to, and have found space in my budget to accommodate that.

I deleted all of my pictures and only left one on flickr. I think without users like us, there is no flickr.

I use already years Flickr and I’m very happy with it. At first, I was quite angry, not because they charge an amount, but would delete your pictures... I reviewed my pics and started to delete lot of garbage... Started from 1450 pics and now I’m around 950. I will skip certainly more in the future to keep my most important ones... I use Flickr a lot to share my pics with friends and relatives during our conversations and you can do this on many devices like phone, iPad, PC by the app... Great!!! I only hope Flickr does not change again and again the terms and conditions to ask more money or restrict further the capacity... And in worse case, I will pay the realtive small amount... but so far I manage and it oblige me to be selective in my choices I upload... So this is the positive of the changes...

It's going to be interesting to see what Smug will do do make Flickr better. I went "pro" for now, but it appears I'm not really getting anything new for my money, except they are not deleting my photos. Been waiting for all these "big changes" they were talking about to make Flickr great again....so far, I'm not seeing it.

It's a fact of life, now, that online services on which one depends will change their Terms of Service or the services offered, and force one either to pay for an "ugrade," begrudgingly acquiesce to the limitations imposed by the changes, or stop using that service. Not only does this entail re-configuring one's online links and workflow, it may curtail it altogether when there is no viable replacement for the service. This has happened to me frequently, but most recently when Amazon finally absorbed Createspace. In cases where one pays for subscriptions or fees annually, it may not seem like "much" to pay (more) for one, but they do add-up. Once one is hooked into commitment to a paid service, a change in the service or the Terms thereof can be even more painful.

This is sort of a jack when you think about it. When I signed up it was a TB for free. They get you hooked, and then change the rules from under you after you've uploaded and catalogued well over 1,000 images. This should be either:

1) Grandfathered
2) Allow previous users to keep their images but they cannot upload anymore unless they go pro or manually delete below 1000.

1000 pictures is a lot. I don’t have any complaints.

Well I broke, I paid up so the +-6k images of the events held by the charity could stay up.

We are only talking about $50.00 per year people! I wonder how much camera gear the average DPR member owns? $2k...$4k...$8k? $50 a year is the size of a gnat's butt compared to what most of us spend on camera gear in a given year.

Reading some of the comments in here I find it unbelievable that people have actually uploaded 2, 3, 5 or 10,000 photographs to a photoshare like flicker.

The world is drowning in photographs.

I was Flickr user from 2006. Flickr asks 60$ when I chose my country.
I deleted about 4.300 images of architectural photography and some family photos.
Fuckrrr.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/superka_01/page6

I imagine that a decent number of people are getting upset with Flickr over this. Once Flickr offered the free TB of space, people started using it precisely for that reason. To have the rug pulled out from underneath them was simply a bad move by Flickr; storage space for free users was effectively reduced to three tenths of a percent of what it used to be. Users are getting upset, and on top of this the mass deletion of potentially millions of photos seems like a bad look for a photography site.

A good way to get rid of those unwanted dormant accounts

Why would anyone keep a thousand pics on flickr anyway??? The whole concept of flickr when it came out in Vancouver some 15 years ago was a spot to share and comment on photos. Nobody wants to see 942 pics of garbage mixed in with your 58 decent shots. I think flickr should take it a step further and drop it to a 500 pic limit.

The idea of using flickr as an online dumping ground for free cloud storage is what's ruined the format.

Deleted my account last week. Was private anyway so no one is going to miss it.

1000 seems so tiny... Compared to free 15gb full size and unlimited@16mp?

I've been a happy Flickr Pro customer for several years & planned to remain one. However, I'm having trouble logging in with my Flickr password. Flickr is supposed to send a code to my back up email (current & valid), but the code never arrives. So I can't complete the log in process. Very, very frustrating.

Facebook is desperate for some good PR for a change, look for free unlimited image hosting coming from facebook in 2019. Of course they will place ads in the middle of your pictures, limity you to uploading 10 images per day and you images will appear free in facebook ads of their advertisers

Well it is about time that the load of useless images gets deleted. Nobody watches 99 % of those old images. Data storage is expensive and energy consuming.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/11/tsunami-of-data-could-consume-fifth-global-electricity-by-2025

There is a reason why Flickr announced this policy quite some time ago. They don't own free users anything - it is not open source in entirity. If people are so worried, they should have used something like piwigo on their own servers. Then they would have understood the pain of hosting large amount of content. And the last time I checked, didn't Flickr had an ability to download all the images in bulk?

I used Flickr in the early 2000s to host images for my blog. I'd upload all my selects to Flickr and use their embed code to show the images. I uploaded 17,000 images over the course of a decade. I wasn't abusing the system for storage. I had over 100,000 at home and only uploaded compressed and edited jpegs.

Luckily, I was able to find a Wordpress plugin that pulled every image off the Flickr servers and stored them locally. Took about 10 minutes. I will be deleting my Flickr account. I don't trust them anymore. As another posted noted, they have left the Internet littered with broken image links.

I have found some people who have posted over a 100,000 photos.!! REALLY. Some subjects posted 10 + of the same subject. I respect they love the subject but to use up space is not really fair. Possibly a personal limit of 500 annually and an annual of $10.00 would be better for the co. and ourselves. FYI ,
I have posted less than 1700 in 9 years.

"offering it for free devalued the concept of paid online space... "

Is Andrew Stadlen, VP of Flickr Product, aware that the storage space was offered as a trade-off for the introduction of paid advertising? They turned our photostreams into advertising billboards. Do they no longer receive that revenue stream?

DPReview's news back in 2013:
"Flickr fans rejoice! A major update has completely revamped the look of user accounts and granted everyone a free terabyte of space — though this comes at its own price paid in advertising."

And now the internet gets littered with missing picture links.... I wish they'd have just stopped new uploads rather than delete old images. I never quite made it to 1000 images (7 short), but I don't want to delete any because I dislike going to historic threads for info and find the image missing, plus I can't remember which ones I've used in links.

It's bad press to say I AM DELETING YOUR PHOTOS. I actually worry more for Flickr than I do for my a couple of thousands photos.

I have a Flickr account and it had just over 2000 low res images, total storage 2gb, they were species record shots for a wild life conservation site as a feeder to the group account, these helped save the site from commercial development

Now if 2gb storage is too much to expect when we were originally given 1tb, then it’s a very poor money grabbing decision by Flickr

They could have set a reasonable maximum storage size rather than a numerical limit on images

I have deleted just over a thousand images, and am now compliant with the 1000 number, this account will now go dormant, and I am sure future advertisers on Flickr will not be encouraged by many accounts becoming dormant, or people leaving

B&&&&&ds

Good, I am glad they are getting to work on the new Flickr. I look forward to it being a site for photographers again and not just a dumping ground for all kinds of dross and pr0n. Any time unlimited free anything is offered, it will be abused. Thats just the nature of things.
And 1000 images for free is still an amazing deal.

People hate to start paying for something what came free before even if it is completely for valid reasons. On positive note: quality of photos should go up as only the ones who really care will keep uploading.

I do love to use Flickr if i want to see image samples of lenses all in one place. I can't think about any other site offering this.

My main issues are that Flickr doesn’t provide very many useful tools to manage photos, nor does it provide user options for viewing other people’s. It does have albums, groups and galleries, but the whole experience is basic and ‘clunky’.

I would pay a moderate amount if it had better organisational options.

There are some inspirational photographers who upload to Flickr but there is also utter junk. Of course, you can choose whom to follow (or not) but it would be good to have some innovative tools to optimise the experience.

Third party software can enhance the Flickr experience but it is hard to find anything useful.

I have FlickStackr on my iPad. It's good for the money, although sadly no longer supported. It is also basic, but does provide different viewing options which are better than straight Flickr, IMHO. If Flickr want to charge 15X more annually, than a simple app, they need to provide a better user experience.

Plus, don't mention the ‘Bad Pandas’.

Maybe they will now have time to get the site working properly again in Google Chrome and finally get rid of the Yahoo login. And while they are at it make the android app less buggy and redesign it according to material design.

Also pro should provide raw support :)

Disappointing that existing users have to download or delete images. The mails are almost like blackmail. The right way was to send a note to upgrade to pro or have a link directly to download the pictures. This would have not appeared as blackmail.

I am downloading my pictures and will decide what to do later.

As quoted by Article where 97% have less than 1000 pictures, i wonder if they would even pay 50 dollar to use this as a foto exhibition platform. The 3% with more pictures may actually be using this platform as their business platform.

Anyway time will tell if this was a good decision or not. They should have a three tier model with variable pricing to attract existing users.

Oh, the horror...Oh, the humanity....(no, really...it's just pictures...).

Fair enough. Hopefully they'll invest some of the revenue in improving their mobile app...

A 1000 photo limit for a free account seems fair.
(I've still got my Flickr Pro account. It's okay, but not great. I'm hoping to see things improve, though. My biggest gripe is its sluggishness. Looking on the bright side, it's not Chinese-owned, and FB hasn't got its sticky paws on it yet.)

Disappointed by Flickr's decision. It used to be that if you didn't have a pro account, only your latest 1000 photos would be visible. The others would be hidden, and revealed again once you upgraded to pro. Not to mention that they doubled the price of a subscription.
I'm still using Flickr.

Is Flickr still valid?

Have no problem with them doing it.

I had about 1600 photos stored there from past 6 years of travel, mostly for friends and family to enjoy. Since I don't have much desire to pick through them to delete 600 odd photos I just deleted the whole account. Will figure out another solution I guess.

That’s great. They have lots of junk photos.

I'm wondering if they will mistakenly delete any photos from paying subscribers. Such things are not uncommon in the Cyberworld. I have all my photos backed-up on multiple external drives, but the extensive descriptions I've added to many, exist only on Flickr. There doesn't seem to be any way to download them back to my drives with the descriptions, except to do a CC&P on each separately. I estimate that would take no more than two years, working full-time.

Several years ago, Ipernity offered a service to batch-transfer all your Flickr photos, including descriptions, but I don't know if that is still available. A full, paid subscription to Ipernity would be required, if it is.

Perfectly fair, and I can't wait for the yahoo log in to be removed.