I could argue this could open them up to someone attempting a class action lawsuit of false advertising.Īs to if they were losing money or not, they probably were and maybe still are. By doing so Flickr devalued the Pro plan and falsely advertised & charged for a promised premium benefit that was not at all limited to premium accounts.
But then it turns out unlimited storage continued to be free for everyone. The Pro accounts, which doubled in price when Smugmug took over and have continued to increase in price since, the number one feature was unlimited storage. I was buying a commercial service from a business which offered up premium advantages for paying them a yearly fee which when I weighed with going elsewhere I decided paying for unlimited storage with Flickr was the better choice. I wasn't supporting them (they are not a charity). In 2018, Flickr was bought by the photography company SmugMug, and has since been retooled with a greater focus on paid subscriptions over advertising revenue.Click to expand.It isn't weird. This, and numerous related changes to the Flickr product during that time, had strongly negative consequences.” Stadlenwrote: “Yahoo lost sight of what makes Flickr truly special and responded to a changing landscape in online photo sharing by giving every Flickr user a staggering terabyte of free storage. Yahoo, Flickr’s former owners, increased the limit to 1TB in an effort to revive the site’s prospects, after it had lost the lead in online photo sharing to Instagram. As the company deletes images from its archive, visitors to other sites across the net could find blank spaces where imagery should be.īefore the 1TB limit was introduced in 2013, free accounts on Flickr were limited to 200 public photos, with no limit to the number of images that could be stored in private. The free limit was attractive to those using Flickr to host images that were presented offsite, particularly independent bloggers and newsletter.
“This caused a significant tonal shift in our platform, away from the community interaction and exploration of shared interests that makes Flickr the best shared home for photographers in the world.” “The free terabyte largely attracted members who were drawn by the free storage, not by engagement with other lovers of photography,” said Andrew Stadlen, Flickr’s vice-president of product, in a blogpost. The company says only 3% of free users have more than 1,000 photos currently uploaded, and argues many of them are not participating in the site in a way that builds a valuable community.
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