Ha! I was planning on writing a Flickr photo "liberator" this weekend after I recently learned there is no way to download all my original photos in bulk, even as a Pro user.
Signed up for a beta invite, hopefully now I don't have to.
Signed up for a beta invite, hopefully now I don't have to.
Using SmugMug's Flickr importer Firefox plugin (no, I don't know why they chose to make it a Firefox plugin), it took less than 2 hours to import ~8100 photos (44 GB) from Flickr to SmugMug and it preserved the metadata I had for the photos.
Definitely not the most elegant way to do it, but if you needed to do it in a pinch it would work.
That was just a "if you're really desperate and can't wait for the invite, here's a way to do it" idea.
Check your email :).
I was also planning on exporting photos to S3. It's like you read my mind...
The ability to change storage providers is probably 2 months out. If you wanted to do it now, I could just reset and delete your account and you could start over and link it from the start. Let me know.