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I have been using Flickr to archive my photos since 2013 when they announced a 1TB limit for free users, and have been paying them $50/year since 2016 when they limited availability to Pro users for their first-party auto-upload tool ( http://flickr.com/uploadr ).

It did seem like the 1TB limit was too good to last when it was announced 5 years ago.

Still, it's a relatively inexpensive extra archive for my photos (400GB) that supplements other backups. The archive is sorta searchable and kinda good for sharing with family and friends.

I haven't really used their social or community features (the Explore experience, the magic donkey, and the pandas are all alien to me -- https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/361974994 , http://code.flickr.net/2009/03/03/panda-tuesday-the-history-... ).

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Thanks! I'd love to know how we can improve on "sorta searchable" if you have some feedback?

@onethumb Flickr Pro user here since 2007. There used to be an "Archive" view that had a calendar you could click through and see pictures taken or uploaded on a specific date. I haven't been able to find it since the Camera Roll feature launched.

Camera Roll is certainly useful, but I'd love if I could just quickly click on a calendar and see photos from a certain date rather than waiting for Camera Roll to load up and scrolling/filtering through the huge list. I realize Camera Roll has this feature as well, but I miss the old "Archive" version.

Thanks for being a customer, and thanks for the feedback. I'll look into whether we can revive this or not. Were you using it to find your own photos, or photos from the community, or... ?

I've been a Pro user for a long time before Yahoo started to screw things up badly. Flickr is only alive today because of the communities that use it. A lot of bloggers used and still use it to share pictures that are freely licensed (CC-BY-*), you should at least consider to keep those in some form or another or provide the means to redirect the links from the search result.

I love Creative Commons and I'm actively involved in thinking about and solving this problem. See their blog post today: https://creativecommons.org/2018/11/01/flickr-2/

Ooh, I found it! If you visit someone's else's About page (like mine: https://www.flickr.com/people/donmacaskill/ ) and click on my join date, you'll see the calendar interface. Presumably, you want to be able to do this on your own photos? I'm not sure why you can't, but I'm finding out. :)

Let me see my photos (and only my photos) on the map view. This used to be a link on my profile, I used it often to track photos to locations. Now the map view seems to just be a global view of everyone bunched together.

Too much of searching currently is based on keyword. But photos should be able to be easily searched other ways, like date, location, color, etc. If I could search all of those and limit it to myself or a friends photostream it would really help me find what I'm looking for.

Great feedback, thanks. I personally use this exact search (my photos on a map) on SmugMug, so clearly something we should re-introduce to Flickr (or maybe just make easier to find?). I'll investigate.

A combined personal map view with the ability to place any of my un-geotagged images (thanks SnapBridge!) would be most welcome.

Search has been broken and half-assed for a long time. Just look at the last decade's worth of bug reports and suggestions.

Copy Google Photos' deep learning photo system

I use it all the time to search my own photos. It tries to figure out the content of the images so I can search for "horses" and it will find every image I have of horses (well of course it's not perfect).

We have this at Flickr already and it's pretty fantastic, imho. Is there a specific taxonomy or tag we're not detecting properly? Thanks for the feedback!

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