Together, we created the world’s largest photographer-focused community: a place where photographers can stand out and fit in. So we took a big risk, stepped in, and saved Flickr. We couldn’t stand by and watch Flickr vanish. SmugMug has always been the place for photographers to showcase their photography, and we’ve long admired how Flickr has been the community where they connect with each other. Why? We’ve spent 17 years lovingly building our company into a thriving, family-owned and -operated business that cares deeply about photographers. Our company, SmugMug, stepped in to rescue it from being shut down and to save tens of billions of your precious photos from being erased. Two years ago, Flickr was losing tens of millions of dollars a year. The CEO later downplayed.įlickr-the world’s most-beloved, money-losing business-needs your help. On, Flickr sent a letter to all users to encourage more pro subscriptions and announcing a future price increase. Īnother version of the upload freeze notice in January Several email notices were reportedly being sent, often with unclear subjects which did not make users understand the topic and urgency, such as "Important information about your Flickr account".Īs of, "locked" accounts were still able to upload new photos via the app. Only on the warning turned red and stated "Your photos are at risk of deletion soon". Users who logged in and had more than 1000 photos were shown a popup notice warning "Your uploads will be locked soon", which did not clearly mention deletions. Some users had problems completing payments or accessing their accounts, for instance those who are locked out of their Yahoo account since 2013 theft of 3 billion accounts.
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