Sometimes it seems as though all good things — well, all free things — must come to an end, at least as far as internet services are concerned. In this case, we’re talking about Flickr, one of the most popular free photo storage services. The service was purchased by professional photo hosting service SmugMug, and last November announced that free users will be limited to 1,000 photos rather than their previous 1TB of storage.
According to Flickr’s blog, as of January 8th, 2019, users who have more than 1,000 photos in their accounts were no longer able to upload additional files. Worse, as of February 4th, any photos over the 1,000 limit “will be at risk of deletion,” beginning with your oldest photos.
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