[chewz]

Personally I have put on Flickr thousands of photos from my seven years of travels in Asia which are very dear to me. And suddenly I had been given a month's notice to leave or pay.

I had sympathy for Flickr as community like 8-10 years ago but haven't been using actively Flickr for couple of years - as it became slowly unusable. I had to write my own scripts to import all my photos as their tools stooped being developed 10 years ago. [1]

At the moment Flickr webpage is quite unusable (if you block aggressive tracking from Yahoo and other 3-rd parties on DNS level), Flickr app is unusable for privacy reasons - installation on Android requires access to identity, contacts and microphone) and logging to Flickr requires giving some weird permissions to Oath (whoever it is).

So with all the sympathy for the new owners of Flickr I think it is a bit premature to ask loyal users for ransom before putting it's house in order and showing what the new Flickr would be. It is just asking me to pay for the development in unknown direction.

I got the message and I will not be using their services in the future as they cannot be considered by me as serious and trusted.

[1] https://github.com/chew-z/Flickr3

[sigi45]

5$ per month on a monthly plan.

Sry but that is not 'ransom'.

And srsly you used it and never paid? Do you think they want you?