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Shout out to Flickr! No matter how many gigabytes you had uploaded, you can still access them. You just can’t upload more without a Flickr Pro plan.

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No, because I am dealing with this right now. I stopped paying for Flickr Pro after 20+ years and can only download my photos in bulk as 1024px resolution in order to get back under the free plan limits unless I pay for Flickr Pro… which is $82/year. My photos are held hostage unless I pay.

Have you tried this?

"if you ever need a copy of your data, members can always request and download their content, including original files, through the Flickr Data section of your settings."

Tried it today. Don't think it will have my comments, but I'd probably have to write a custom thing to fetch those anyway. I have about 6,000 photos on there so I'll see what happens.

Just tried it out. The data download option in your account settings gives you the full resolution. You need no plan whatsoever.

why didnt you download BEFORE stopping to pay? also, why did you have your data ONLY at flickr?

Is this still true? I am a Flickr Pro user and the few times I've let my subscription lapse, I recall that I could only see my most recent 200 uploaded photos until I paid up again. They didn't delete them, for sure! But they were inaccessible.

...or $11 for a month, and you can cancel it? Where do people think the money comes from to store gigs and gigs of photos literally forever?

Keep in mind that this is a brand which has offered 1TB free in the past. They kinda only have themselves to blame for any minimum-price assumptions.

I suppose, but that "brand" was owned by many different people, and the current one has very little to do with whatever people did in the past. At a certain point, one should at minimum back up all one's stuff when ownership changes, just in case the ZIRP economics don't exist to float those AWS bills anymore.

Totally agreed on multiple owners... but that kind of brand-memory is literally what you're paying for when you buy a company and keep the name. Every buyer decided to keep the name.

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