[Skye]

While I understand why they are adding a limit, the concept of just deleting the photos over the 1000 limit just unsettles me, and will almost certainly cause link rot, which is both sad and annoying when I encounter it.

I don't know what my dad will do, he's been using Flickr for quite a few years now, he used to pay for pro, but then stopped doing so after Yahoo bought Flickr and started breaking the UI. He has over 1000 photos, but I am not sure if the pro features are worth the price for him. Fortunately he has local backups of every photo, but it does feel like his photos have been held to ransom. He probably would be willing to pay some money (but less than the current pro) just for the extra storage (and none of the extra features), from what I understand.

To conclude this wall of text, I understand why they're doing it, and hopefully it will make Flickr sustainable, but I feel the way it was done will cause problems when it happens (if it only stopped an account from uploading if it had too many photos, that would help a lot to avoid link rot), and might also cause problems in the future (while morbid to think about, if a pro user dies, they won't be able to pay and a bunch of their images will just get deleted, which could be bad for their families)...

EDIT: fix a few spelling errors and tyops

UPDATE: my dad's response to this is that he will pay for pro to keep his images online. In general, he doesn't feel like Pro is intended for him because it has features he doesn't really care about, he only cares about the storage and community stuff, not the statistics and software stuff.

[kornork]

I didn't see any mention of deleting photos that were over the limit. Hopefully they do what Flickr used to do, which is make only the last 1000 photos publicly visible.

[afterburner]

"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."

From the home page.

[Gustomaximus]

What I find amazing is how quickly they are doing it. You'd think they would have 12 months type thing after the 'no upload' before they delete to maintain good will. What if someone is ill or travelling. Seems there will be a bunch of people who lose photos before they realise.

[sigi45]

They waited quite long. 1tb is not nothing and I have backuped to Flickr for that reason but I'm not doing anything there

Yahoo might have been able to afford it.

Otherwise pro user still paying for it. Everyone else didn't. Why should they care what people think of them who didn't pay anyway?

[Skye]

Well... It would have been nice if they warned people earlier because it is quite a big thing to happen.

A possible reason why someone running a website should care about keeping stuff up is to avoid link rot, to me it feels like part of bejng a good Internet citizen is to ensure that a change to your website doesn't break other websites or links where possible and reasonable. (if people want stuff removed, then that's fine though).

However, it might be that it's too expensive to even just keep stuff up, so fair enough, but if that is the case, I feel more warning would have helped a bit here.

[Skye]

It says that they will be "actively deleted", which doesn't sound like they're going to be hidden.

EDIT: correction, it says they'll first be hidden for about a month, then they will be "actively deleted".

[jrochkind1]

It doesn't say anything about hiding photos, that I can find?

It does say that if you were over 1000, you have a month where you can't upload any additional photos, but before they start deleting photos.

[Skye]

Huh... Maybe I misread, either way, its a similar sort of concept, and still ends with deletion.

[xtreak29]

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.

[chemmail]

Luckily, almost no one uses flickr anymore these days, not gonna be that much rot.

[roywiggins]

Well, that's the problem- it's all the people who uploaded images years ago, it's those links and images that will rot.