For less than $5 a month, the cost of one Caffe Latte Venti plus tax and tip Starbucks, I have a beautiful place to host, store and share my images. I trust that something like this would never happen at Flickr.ĥ. On another popular sharing service, they started selling my images as stock – without my permission. On Facebook, Instagram, etc., YOU are the product and despite having a “free” place to share your images, you are giving up just about every detail of your private life to the people hosting those images.Ĥ. The people behind Flickr have good intentions and have earned the trust of many photographers based on how they run SmugMug.ģ. (This would be reason enough to stay on Flickr for me.)Ģ. IMO – There is no other safe place on the Internet to put your images where they will be displayed in high-resolution. They gave a chance to existing Pro members to extend their subscription by a year at the old price and I immediately extended my subscription. This week, Flickr announced that they were raising the price of Flickr Pro. I am one of those who understood the value and have continued my Pro subscription – originally signed up for in 2009. Some people understood the value and doubled down to stay. Some people didn’t like that letter and bailed. ( See the letter from Don and read for yourself.) Flickr needs to do more of this and I wish EVERY business were this open about their situation. They asked the photography community to help keep Flickr alive. SmugMug bought Flickr to save it but most likely underestimated the cost of hosting tens of BILLIONS photographs in very high-resolution.Ī month ago, the owners issued a letter that was transparent, honest and frank. I know the people behind SmugMug and they are all hard-working, dedicated, sincere, people. Verizon bought Yahoo and things got worse. Yahoo bought the company from its husband and wife founders a year later, and pretty much ran it into the ground. I think Flickr’s worth saving and I think it IS on those of us in the photography community who rely on Flickr to do the work.įlickr has been around since 2004. NOTE: I don’t depend on income from this site to support myself, so I didn’t use a Click-Baity headline like “Should we save Flickr? – Who cares?” I probably would get more views if I did that, but it’s not my style.
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