[Bryan K]

This morning a read an article that talks about Flickr making it's Uploader only available to Pro users once again. Years ago I was a paid Pro member ($25/year)and I had unlimited amounts of uploads as well as albums. Then they opened up the floodgates and everybody got everything for free including 1tb of storage space. Now apparently things will change again and the fee has graduated with the times and it will be $35/year with no ads as well. In a time of many cloud storage options I'm curious as to what other folks think about this change of course by Yahoo. Here is the link to the story I read.

[Chief Joseph]

This is a good free site and it works for posting pics here. http://tinypic.com/?t=postupload

[Bryan K]

For many people Flickr has been the go to site. Our admin Tom, has made it seamless to insert pics into posts from Flickr and a few other sites. Like many others, I have thousands of pics on their site as well. It sucks to have the back and forth with fees that they have gone through in recent years. Yahoo does not nor have they ever known how good of a photo site they bought years ago. I wish they had just leave well alone.

[Slugman]

My pro account is on autopay. I prefer not to know. I do like how any time I upload new pics from my camera, it automatically uploads them to Flickr at full resolution then marks them private. Then I just go through and mark the ones public I want public, and I'm ready to write a trip report and my cloud backup is done.

[mike]

As a viewer only, not a user I find flickr to be the least appealing and most annoying of the major sites. A lot of times I just don't click thru. No tears shed by me if it disappears. YMMV

[Sore Feet]

I've heard rumblings that Yahoo is looking to consolidate considerably, which will involve selling off or shutting down many of their less or not at all profitable properties. Flickr is one of those that has been mentioned. I've seen some people suggesting that this Uploadr / Pro fee increase is a last ditch effort to pull in a little extra money before they shut the whole thing down. Considering how shoddily Yahoo has been run over the years, it wouldn't at all surprise me.

[Magellan]

That would stink because so many trip reports on this site have flickr photos in them. One more arrow in NWH.

[puzzlr]

I've lived through several flickr iterations. It's possible that I like it because of familiarity, but I haven't seen anything better. I HATE Instagram with its (previously) square photos and faux-old filters, 500 pix with a pop up asking to register on every visit, Google dropping Picasa and offering "Photos" with minimal organizational features, Apple abandoning Aperture for it's dumbed down "Photos" desktop/online app, and many other photo sites that don't do story telling as well as flickr. There are other paid sites that are good, so I don't see the problem with flickr charging a fee for actual services rendered. Maybe it will last, maybe not, I have the same photos stored elsewhere, but I still really like flickr.

[Bedivere]

Guess there's something I don't understand... If you have to pay to upload pictures then the site is only useful for paid users. So this means there will be no more free option? It would be a shame if flickr dies because of what Magellan said - all the flickr photos that have been posted elsewhere. Wouldn't surprise me though. I actually like Photobucket's interface better from a design/ease of use standpoint but the image quality is crap and the site runs like it's powered by an old 286 on a 56K modem. If flickr goes away I guess I'll just put everything on my Zenfolio account. Heck, I should do that anyway since I'm paying for it but sharing images from Zenfolio is more difficult than from Flickr.

[Bryan K]

Flickr will be available to all even after the fee starts, but uploading will not be available in bulk for free users and probably have a limited number of albums like it did before.

[Sore Feet]

[Bedivere]

[Gil]

This is horrible. A commercial enterprise is charging money for its services. This is The Man keeping me down.