[httpsterio]

As a hobbyist photographer 1000 photographs is not a whole lot and I can't justify a pro account when I mostly just use it for storing my edited photos. A terabyte on the other hand is too much to give away to free users.

Then again, from a business standpoint I welcome the decision. I'd rather have a free place to host a 1000 photos than no Flickr at all. I welcome their stance alleged stance of treating users as priority rather than as just advertisement data generators.

I say alleged because I don't know how well these promises of users first are applied in practice but I'm hopeful.

At least they are upfront about it so kudos to Flickr for that.

[dingaling]

I guess I won't have any option but to pay for Pro but I wish they had am intermediate tier that just gives expanded storage.

I have no interest in their Pro Statistics or the list of 'partner discounts' they bundle into Pro. Nor the ability to upload 10 minute videos.

Strip out that crap and just sell a Flickr Subscriber account for less money, please.

[rodgerd]

> As a hobbyist photographer 1000 photographs is not a whole lot and I can't justify a pro account

Perhaps you're an exception, but I'd bet good money that 90+% of the people saying this easily spend more than $50 per annum on gear and software.