For over five years, Flickr has offered 1TB of free storage to users. After Yahoo sold the service to SmugMug back in April, today Flickr will be reducing the free tier to just 1000 photos. On the bright side, it is however bringing some improvements to its paid Flickr Pro tier.
Announced in a press release (via The Verge), 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. To the company’s credit, it notes that nothing is ever really free, and it wants to have a transparent business model.
Users on the free plan will have until January 8th to download their photos or choose to upgrade to the Pro plan.
As for Flickr Pro, it includes unlimited storage of photos and videos and more. Here are the new updates:
- Ad-free browsing
- Advanced stats
- Premier product support
- New 5K photo size
- Increased video playback
- More partner discounts
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.
Flickr CEO, Don MacAskill shared some comments on the changes and what the future will bring:
