[dotBen]

As someone with way more than 1000 photos on Flickr, I hope they provide an easy way to export the photos and metadata out.

I mostly agree with the direction they want to take, I just don't want to be part of the journey and so want to get my photos out.

[danso]

The landing page for the announcement has a little more detail: https://www.flickr.com/lookingahead/

> Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download content over the limit. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content actively deleted -- starting from oldest to newest date uploaded -- to meet the new limit.

I have a Pro account so maybe it's different, but I have a "Request my Flickr data" button in the bottom right of my account page: https://www.flickr.com/account

And unless something has changed recently, IIRC, Flickr had a very generous and fairly easy to use JSON API. In the past I've been able to bulk download my ~10,000 photos with just a few calls: https://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/docapis_flickr_exa...

[phlyingpenguin]

Surprisingly enough, they have a data export on the account page. I'm not sure when this was added but it was always a pain point for me and a reason I stopped paying any attention to my Flickr account. All it took was a drastic change to make me re-check my account!

[SmellyGeekBoy]

In the time it took to write this comment you could've logged in and spotted the big "Export my data" button right there on the Account Settings page...

[dotBen]

Does it include the metadata too?