Flickr subscription cost4/30/2023 ![]() ![]() 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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