Flickr for quite sometime offered free 1TB storage to users after SmugMug acquired the service from Yahoo back in April, the company today announced it will be reducing the free tier to just 1000 photos and bringing improvements to its paid Flickr Pro. The company shared that Flickr Free accounts will now reduce the free storage to 1,000 photos of any size from the previous 1TB limit. Users who are currently on the free plan will have time until January 8th to download their photos or choose to upgrade to the Pro plan. After January 8, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. As for Flickr Pro, it includes unlimited storage of photos and videos and more. Improvements to Flickr Pro include Ad-free browsing, advanced stats, premier product support, new 5K photo size, increased video playback, and more partner discounts. The Flickr Pro is priced at $50/year and the company is offering 30% off for Flickr users who upgrade from a free account before November 30. SmugMug also announced that it working on denting the spam on the platform, new simple login with customized credentials, it is also working on moving Flickr out of Yahoo’s data centers and into an extremely ...
Friday, 2 November 2018
Flickr to replace free 1TB plan with just 1000 photos from January 8th 2019
Flickr for quite sometime offered free 1TB storage to users after SmugMug acquired the service from Yahoo back in April, the company today announced it will be reducing the free tier to just 1000 photos and bringing improvements to its paid Flickr Pro. The company shared that Flickr Free accounts will now reduce the free storage to 1,000 photos of any size from the previous 1TB limit. Users who are currently on the free plan will have time until January 8th to download their photos or choose to upgrade to the Pro plan. After January 8, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. As for Flickr Pro, it includes unlimited storage of photos and videos and more. Improvements to Flickr Pro include Ad-free browsing, advanced stats, premier product support, new 5K photo size, increased video playback, and more partner discounts. The Flickr Pro is priced at $50/year and the company is offering 30% off for Flickr users who upgrade from a free account before November 30. SmugMug also announced that it working on denting the spam on the platform, new simple login with customized credentials, it is also working on moving Flickr out of Yahoo’s data centers and into an extremely ...
