Just months after SmugMug acquired Flickr, it curbed free use of the platform to 1,000 pictures per account holder. At the same time, no one who uses the service can be terribly surprised by the development. This editor happens to be a Flickr Pro user and shudders to think how many photos will need to be moved if the service shuts down. It’s still losing money.”Īdds MacAskill, in terms that Flickr fans should find worrying, SmugMug “cannot continue to operate it at a loss as we’ve been doing.” (To sweeten the deal for new subscribers, SmugMug is offering 25% off a Flickr Pro account for those who visit this link and input the code 25in2019.) In an email tonight to users of Flickr who pay roughly $50 annually for the service, MacAskill has basically asked them if they know anyone else who might be interested in a yearly subscription to Flickr, explaining that it “still needs your help. But it seems now that SmugMug may have underestimated its carrying costs. MacAskill didn’t reveal at the time how much SmugMug - which is itself an independent, family-owned operation - paid for Flickr.

When in April of last year, the photo-hosting service SmugMug acquired the photo-hosting service Flickr from Verizon’s digital media subsidiary, SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill said he was committed to breathing new life into the service, calling it “ core to the entire fabric of the Internet.”

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