Flickr will be its own entity with a Flickr login all to itself.Įditor's Note: This story was updated at 3:30pm ET with additional information from SmugMug regarding automatic image and video deletion from is a huge online repository of images. From January, you'll no longer need a Yahoo! account for access. One final change that's happening is the login process. After that, the 1,000 images/videos left in a Free account will just become archives for users who go elsewhere for free image hosting. As SmugMug is automatically deleting images from February, there's going to be some mass downloading going on. It's safe to assume many Free account holders will be looking for an alternative to Flickr instead of opting to pay $50 per year. Finally, there's partner discounts available, with the most popular likely to be for Adobe's Creative Cloud (15 percent discount). Video playback time is also being increased from its current limit of three minutes to 10 minutes, but this won't be rolled out until early next year. SmugMug is also offering priority assistance to Pro account holders from a "new world-class support team."Īs for new features, Flickr is introducing support for 5K photo sizes, which means your images should automatically look their best even on the latest high-resolution displays. There will be no adverts when you are logged in, and advanced stats available to see which of your photos and videos are performing the best. In return for your money, the storage limit disappears for both images and videos. So that first year will only cost you $35. 30 as encouragement for Free account users to upgrade. A Pro account costs $50 per year and SmugMug is offering a 30 percent discount until Nov. Your content will be deleted starting with the oldest and working to newest.įlickr Pro accounts are also changing. 5, SmugMug will start deleting images and videos until your free account is back down to 1,000 assets. If you remain over the limit past Jan 8, then you can't upload anything else to Flickr. 8, 2019 to download their images or upgrade to a Pro account. SmugMug realizes there's many existing Free accounts with more than 1,000 assets stored in them, so it's giving users until Jan. There will be no size limit on those images and videos, but 1,000 is the hard upper limit. The one terabyte of storage Flickr Free accounts enjoy is disappearing to be replaced with 1,000 best photos or videos.
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