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.
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 modern software stack built on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Flickr CEO, Don MacAskill shared some comments on the changes and what the future will bring:
From the start, Flickr has been an act of co-creation, and without you, our community, we’d be just an empty picture frame – no more than a template and a web address. We need the community’s help to make Flickr a sustainable, thriving community again. We are committed to building the future we all want for Flickr – one where the site can keep evolving in all the areas that have made it the incredible, diverse, and beautiful place it has always been. We’re excited to define the future of photography together.