Such as the decision made on November 1, 2018, where free tier users would be limited to a 1,000 photo maximum, any surplus deleted, unless the user upgrades to a Pro account.

Taming this beast will inevitably require some unpopular decisions. Imagine being a small company and inheriting tens of billions of photos, a hundred million users, tens of millions in yearly loss, and surely, some ancient legacy code base.

Above all, it shows the dire state Flickr was in.įor a company like SmugMug to take on the rescue of one of the largest photography communities on the planet, is a monumental task. Years earlier, it would be unthinkable for a giant like Flickr to be a acquired by the relatively small and little known SmugMug. It was a rescue operation.Ī titanic rescue operation. My understanding is that it was a do-or-die deal, had they not acquired it, Flickr would be shutdown by now. To sum up some recent events: on April 2018, SmugMug acquired Flickr for an undisclosed amount. The rise, fall and resurrection of Flickr IntroductionĮarlier this week, a new chapter was added to the rocky history of Flickr, one that quickly escalated out of control, as per usual on ragenet.

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