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The recent Flickr policy change shows the dangers of depending on online storage of your photos. Once a company has you over a barrel, they can then threaten to delete all your photos if you don't pay up. I have been with Flickr for 11 years, but this is the end. I didn't mind paying a modest annual charge before they made it free. Now they have slapped on a large annual fee and threatened deletion. Luckily most of my most recent photos I still have, but some of the older ones I am downloading before quitting Flickr. I already pay for Adobe Lightroom, which allows storage online, home storage, and full editing facilities, and no way am I going to pay Flickr just to display photos online.
The new policy for Pro and Free users is terrible! In the past when you went from Pro to Free your photos would only been hidden, but now they are going to start deleting your photos if you are a Free user with more than 1,000 photos. I have been using this site since 2005, so I have well over that amount and now might lose all of them if I don't become Pro or back the photos up. Well, with such a horrible policy change out of nowhere there is no way I am willing to give them more money (since I have had a Pro account on and off)Congratulations Flickr, you have lost a long time member of your site. I used to love this site but every time they change something it just keep getting worse and worse. This is honestly just the last straw.
Deletes all your photos except for 1000.Doesn't give you an alternative unless you pay for the premium account (Pro). Also doubles the price for the Pro Accounts, so it doesn't even respect people who were already paying.Also doesn't let you download all your photos at once. I had to request all my personal data to download it all at the same time or else I would have to download every 500 photos, I have been waiting for days and still haven't received any of my photos.
They lured you to their site with the offer of a free terabyte of photo backup, and then abruptly announce that they will delete all of your photos unless you switch to a paid account (and it is a PAIN IN THE HEINEY to rescue your pictures from their site).Why would ANYONE give in to this extortion and pay? Should we trust them THIS time.Hell to the no. If you are going to a pay site... pay one that doesn't mess around with the dishonest bait-and-switch. or.. try shoebox, Google backup, or smugmug, which remain free.screw Flickr.... with a rusty screw.
To date - 1TB of photo storage and sharing freeNew management reduce this to 1000 photos and "any over this number will be deleted."!There are plenty of free photo storage options e.g. GoogleYou are killing your business.Currently downloading all of my photos and closing my accountDoes this new management understand the first thing about what drives revenue on the web - TRAFFICYou will very soon have none
God; Flickr. Used to use it regularly and liked it. Until, when was it, around 2014 or so. Some millennial in head office had to justify their high-paying desk job, as they always eventually do, by changing things that were perfectly functional and aesthetically pleasing to irritating dysfunctionality that looked like some mobile phone app for 12-year olds, and was set out to function as if it was a mobile phone, swipey app for 12-year olds, and I'm talking about the desktop website. So, suddenly, it was an irritating mess that looked like crap, was slow as hell and had impaired functionality.Then they changed it again, I think the following year, except they just changed the visuals again to look like a slightly different mobile phone app, without restoring functionality and aesthetics that had been present before they wrecked it the previous year. And it was now filled with ads, which is always good.So it has remained in this irritating, derelict state. "Oath" or some crap has bought it - whoopee-doo, it'll probably get worse.The basic functionality has remained mostly the same, for which a 1-star rating may seem harsh, but as a photography website aesthetics and presentation are important, and they píssed off a whole lot of users when they changed something that nothing was wrong with in the first place, made it a visual and navigatory mess, messed with functions and filled it with ads. There was an attempted exodus to ipernity but it never really caught on as it should have.Moral - if it ain't broke, don't fix it.Yahoo exec - if it ain't broke, change everything to look like a mobile phone game. And ads. Lots of ads.
In 2015 someone informed Flickr that my email address was no longer in use making it impossible to contact Flicker as there is no phone option! Consequently they are in possession of my artwork, without my permission & I can’t update it or delete the account. If this position doesn’t change I will be forced to initiate legal proceedings against Flicker.
Awful service.There is a bug that dow not allow to download my own albums on the platform and the same message "We are working to solve it" has been up for over six months.Terrible customer service. I am a paying customer and they don´t answer neither via Help button, nor help forums, nor on Twitter or Facebook.If you are thinking about getting on Flickr run away from it!!!!!! Pure garbage. If I had access to my own photos, I´d download everyhting and get the hell out of there. They hold customers hostage!
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