Starting next year, video playback time will increase from three minutes to 10 minutes. Subscribers will also see priority support and advanced statistics in the mobile version. Images are now better optimized for any screen, up to 5K. We would rather the arrangement be transparent,” Flickr said in a press release.įlickr’s Pro subscription, which comes to about $50 a year, continues to offer unlimited image storage at full resolution and ad-free browsing, but expands a few other options as well. Users pay with their data or with their time. “Unfortunately, ‘free’ services are seldom actually free for users. A majority of free users have less than 1,000 images while a majority of Pro users have more than 1,000, Flickr says.įlickr says free membership still allows for the same community participation. Flickr says that more photographers know how many photos they shot, while few knew how much data they actually had taken up, sparking the move from a storage limit to one that instead limits the number of files. SmugMug acquires Flickr from Yahoo, says ‘the future is bright’įlickr says Yahoo’s decision to expand free account storage to a terabyte started changing the landscape of the platform, bringing users that used the platform for storage and not members of the photo-sharing community. Flickr cash shortage leads to plea for more paying membersįlickr to drop the ax on free users, will begin deleting old photos in March

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