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I would never use or recommend Flickr. They lied to me. As premium user (for many yars) the promise to me was that photos uploaded will be kept free forever as long as the service exists. Even if I stop paying. Then they went back on that. They may have a very good reasons, but the trust was broken.

They were owned by Yahoo for a while. Has the management changed since the one that broke your trust?

Why would anyone need to care who sits in the management? The trust was broken by a company.

A company is run by people. It's not like the logo decided to screw users over.

Since the new management never offered to restore my trust by going back on the original promise, they are complicit.

Flickr hasn't been under the same ownership twice over now.

I've been a paying customer of SmugMug for years and highly recommend them. I use it as a photography portfolio though, not as a Google Photos replacement (although it certainly can be used that was as well).

Yeah. I don't use the community aspect of flickr much these days but seems a pretty solid place to upload photos and share them.