Flickr Pro.....subscription rates

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I have just received my subscription renewal notice for the above and it has doubled in price!! Has anyone else had the price hike??
 
It was on auto renewal I can see the charges $24.95 for last three years, and yes it's set to renew on 4th September for $49.95

I have unlimited storage with my pro subscription

Using 49.45GB of your unlimited storage

droj said:
What are you actually paying for? Just asking.
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https://www.flickr.com/account/upgrade/pro

I didn't know I could have gotten 15% off Creative Cloud


Gonna consider cancelling subscription now..
 
mine will go from $44.95 for 2 years to $49.95 per year in January.

No thanks - i don't need to pay £3.20 per month instead of £1.45. I've only used 17.5gb so 1tb for free and not seeing stats is fine
 
Seems like a strange way for SmugMug to alienate customers. Or perhaps they're trying to entice people off Flickr?

I wonder if free users will start to see things change too...?
 
I've been paying 24.95 USD for a few years, reasonable I thought, My renewal( Nov ) is also 49.99

.... Not this time pal!
 
Cobra said:
I've been paying 24.95 USD for a few years, reasonable I thought, My renewal( Nov ) is also 49.99

.... Not this time pal!
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I used to pay the $25 years ago when the limit was 200 photos but, when they upped it to 1tb, I stopped paying. I have over 2,ooo photos on there and have only used 0.1% of it although I don't upload full res photos.
 
Marc said:
and have only used 0.1% of it although I don't upload full res photos.
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I just checked my usage, and I'm on about 10% ( of the free Tb) over about an 8 year period. I never check the stats anyway ..
I guess its one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time, and never actually got around to cancelling ..
 
Thanks for the heads up.

Like you guys I have had Pro for $24.95 for some years.....................but now the next auto renewal is indeed $49.99

I cannot recall seeing any sort of notification but maybe yet to come as mine is due 1st November.

But at that price I am happy for it to revert to the 'free' service but as auto renewing does need me to cancel (as I understand it?), though I wonder what they have changed in regard to that compared to Pro subscription???

PS I am using a tiny fraction of my unlimited storage. Is it worth $49.99 to use it way more than I have been doing. Daft question can I upload raw files to a private folder that no one but me can access as would not a back folder to be accessible by others!
 
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I'm a free account user and could see no reason now to even consider paid subscription.

Adobe discounts get posted a few times on Amazon - just keep an eye on it - no other purchase necessary.

What happens next is anyone's best guess. There could be more ads (almost certain), storage limits (probably - not an issue for casual uploaders like me; and I only post low res) but the worst one would be 500px style upload limits (10-20 per week?) and group participation limits. If they want to go with the latter they will kill of the platform almost entirely. 500PX is a joke now and users will start fleeing to noting else but instagram and / or any new startups.

Let's hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. Hopefully they are just going to raise more cash through the more affluent premium members and that will be it; or maybe pro will get new additional benefits shortly? We will see.
 
Thanks for the heads-up, OP. Mine doesn't go up until May next year but I'm cancelling it well in advance. It will be a shame to lose the "My most viewed photo on Flickr" thread, but the price hike obviously had to come some time.
 
Flickr has been good in my book up to now as a pretty excellent photo-sharing medium. You can target whose pictures you look at, and that reflects back to you and forms a resonant, but open, community. I can't think of anything like it. It has world-class contributors but the ethos between them is purely cultural, and non-commercial.

Sure it'll all change one day. I'm enjoying it whilst I can. No substitute in view.

Ipernity?

Anything I use for such purposes has to be free or very cheap.
 
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droj said:
Ipernity?
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I went there to see if it's still viable, but the paid up membership is more expensive than (the inflated) Flickr and if you stay free you have upload restrictions (200Mb/month IIRC) which is probably fine if you do few uploads and low rez.
 
The subscription doubling is quite a jump in one hit!

A surmise might be that a lot of folk will cancel and drop to the free version.,.........then it remains to be seen whether Flickr find the new price has actually been a loss making action. Though equally, if it comes now because they have a hard core of subscribers who have made use of their "free" 1TB of storage and are now 'trapped' so will pay the higher figure but under duress???

The future, special discounts to entice free account users to "go Pro" ???

For me as mentioned ~ I use very little of the storage.......is there compelling value at $49.99 to use it primarily as a cloud storage rather than just a photo sharing site (NB not sure when I last uploaded a picture to it?)
 
I'm currently a 'free' user and hope to stay that way, though I did go 'Pro' for a couple of years at $24:99.
However with the new price for Pro set at about 0.78p a week the charge isn't extortionate for what it provides ... an average decent coffee will set you back around four times that amount.
I guess we have come to expect everything on the Internet to be free.
 
gramps said:
I'm currently a 'free' user and hope to stay that way, though I did go 'Pro' for a couple of years at $24:99.
However with the new price for Pro set at about 0.78p a week the charge isn't extortionate for what it provides ... an average decent coffee will set you back around four times that amount.
I guess we have come to expect everything on the Internet to be free.
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On balance ~ if they had increased the price say to $30 I would likely have seen that as OK but doubling the price for no clear benefit seems a step too much...... especially as until the OP I had no idea "what was coming by way of my auto renewal..."
 
Box Brownie said:
On balance ~ if they had increased the price say to $30 I would likely have seen that as OK but doubling the price for no clear benefit seems a step too much...... especially as until the OP I had no idea "what was coming by way of my auto renewal..."
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Problem is "they" are not the same as they were when you last paid ... as I am sure you know, Flickr was sold recently.
Maybe the new owners plan to keep it as a worthwhile product and maybe even improve it, who knows? :)
Personally I see nothing to take the place of Flickr ... I gave up Photobucket when that became a pay-only product but it was only my 2nd choice place for unimportant photos e.g. for Classifieds.
 
I upload a lot of photos regularly (I have over 31000 uploaded) but all at low resolutions. I'm only using 1.8% of the free 1Tb, so I am happy with the free version and see no point in going to Pro.
 
gramps said:
Problem is "they" are not the same as they were when you last paid ... as I am sure you know, Flickr was sold recently.
Maybe the new owners plan to keep it as a worthwhile product and maybe even improve it, who knows? :)
Personally I see nothing to take the place of Flickr ... I gave up Photobucket when that became a pay-only product but it was only my 2nd choice place for unimportant photos e.g. for Classifieds.
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Yes, I knew they had been bought by SmugMug.......................and likely inevitable that it would change in some way(s) and now in one aspect increasing the subs to 'improve' monetisation for them!

drounding said:
I upload a lot of photos regularly (I have over 31000 uploaded) but all at low resolutions. I'm only using 1.8% of the free 1Tb, so I am happy with the free version and see no point in going to Pro.
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Ah, I did not recall that the free version also had significant storage.


Do any of those on "Pro" now, use it for commercial/business purposes i.e. linked in some manner to your primary website to drive visitors that way to sell your products & services???
 
Box Brownie said:
I cannot recall seeing any sort of notification but maybe yet to come as mine is due 1st November.
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I've never had any notification of payment, or indeed payment due, all I ever got was PP telling me you have sent 24.99 ...

Box Brownie said:
but as auto renewing does need me to cancel (as I understand it?)
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Yes, and its dead easy to do, just go to your account and the option to cancel is there.
 
Box Brownie said:
Do any of those on "Pro" now, use it for commercial/business purposes i.e. linked in some manner to your primary website to drive visitors that way to sell your products & services???
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You don't need 'pro' for that. The comment and description field is the same for everyone. The problem is the photos are now loaded in a preview mode with most of that hidden until you click it through again.

If they provided dedicated "buy" buttons and links would be very nice. But then again their current algorithm from the days of EVIL anti-photographer ex-CEO Marissa pulls all the crappy phone and compact shots killing the momentum for quality content. Hopefully that all will change for the better now.
 
Ste_S said:
Instagram replaced it a long time ago, for better or worse.
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100%. And for the worse personally. No proper search, no proper desktop support, only tiny image size available.

gramps said:
I don't think so.
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Just look at the numbers. I really wish it wasn't the case but the majority went that way. The same majority that said 8 years ago "my smartphone takes great photos"
 
LongLensPhotography said:
Just look at the numbers. I really wish it wasn't the case but the majority went that way. The same majority that said 8 years ago "my smartphone takes great photos"
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Instagram is quite different to Flickr, or at least it is for me, I wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole.
 
gramps said:
Instagram is quite different to Flickr, or at least it is for me, I wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole.
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I would say exactly the same, except at some point it just becomes a numbers game. Flickr is much better, but for some reason most mobile users flock to the inferior site and that means we are supposed to follow them if we want better exposure of our work. At the end of the day the primary purpose of both is photo sharing, only the underlying philosophy is very different.
 
gramps said:
Instagram is quite different to Flickr,
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Its great if you like female's pictures with floppy ears and a "dog's nose" :D
Some are really nice looking but I really wouldn't know whether to take them out for a meal, or play "fetch" in the park :thinking:
 
LongLensPhotography said:
I would say exactly the same, except at some point it just becomes a numbers game. Flickr is much better, but for some reason most mobile users flock to the inferior site and that means we are supposed to follow them if we want better exposure of our work. At the end of the day the primary purpose of both is photo sharing, only the underlying philosophy is very different.
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I think Flickr and Instagram are two completely different apps with two completely different target markets.

Flickr is used mostly by photographers. It's a place to store and display your images to other like minded people. Personally, if I was not into photography I would never have a reason to visit Flickr. As a photographer I will often just browse the people I follow and the explore section to get some inspiration.

Instagram is a social media app where everybody ie kids, teens, adults share their mobile snaps and ghastly stories and follow their celeb wannabes. That's the only reason why Instagram has the numbers over Flickr. Yes photographers use instagram to reach followers and give exposure of their work but that's no different to them using facebook, snapchat and what other social media apps are out there these days.
 
ecoleman said:
I think Flickr and Instagram are two completely different apps with two completely different target markets.

Flickr is used mostly by photographers. It's a place to store and display your images to other like minded people. Personally, if I was not into photography I would never have a reason to visit Flickr. As a photographer I will often just browse the people I follow and the explore section to get some inspiration.

Instagram is a social media app where everybody ie kids, teens, adults share their mobile snaps and ghastly stories and follow their celeb wannabes. That's the only reason why Instagram has the numbers over Flickr. Yes photographers use instagram to reach followers and give exposure of their work but that's no different to them using facebook, snapchat and what other social media apps are out there these days.
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Instagram is both a

a social media app where everybody ie kids, teens, adults share their mobile snaps and ghastly stories and follow their celeb wannabes.
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AND

It's a place to store and display your images to other like minded people
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I used to post to Flickr. However as everyone I liked (and bought books of their work) was on Instagram, I just drifted there. There's plenty of photography communities on Instagram also, and have been to several meets off the back of Instagram posts.

As a place to curate your work though, Instagram is awful. Do what most people do now - have an Instagram account as a portal to your own website.
 
been on flickr since the dawn of time ,and while its got progressively quieter its still my main online storage facility , I never upload full size images so 1tb is fine by me . I changed from a pro account to a free account when Mellisa the t*** Meyer brought in her changes and to date I cant really tell the difference
 
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