And it kills the notion that Flickr can be a useful, simple, automatic way to keep all your photos backed up in one place.įlickr Pro is a good service, that for some subset of serious photographers is well worth the price. The move feels a bit like ransomware, Yahoo forcing people who've already bought into the idea of Flickr as a permanent backup to start paying for the privilege.
That means there's no easy way to upload big batches of photos all at once, into the same place, unless you're a Pro member. Today's announcements really only include one change of consequence: The desktop Auto-Uploadr tool is now reserved only for Pro users. In the search for a few more people willing to fork over $35 a year to fund more purple offices, Yahoo has killed its photo service. But then, this morning, Flickr announced that once again its best tools will only be available to paying users.
#FLICKR UPLOADR REVIEW ARCHIVE#
Flickr's search engine was good, the new universal Camera Roll interface was great, and Flickr suddenly seemed to have a chance as a permanent archive of all of our photos. Just shy of a year ago, Flickr started offering 1,000 gigs of free storage to every user, along with an automatic uploader tool that would help you take every photo from your computer, your external drives, and SD cards, and dump them into one place. Even as it updated its search and organizational tools, Google Photos came along and one-upped its every feature. It's the place for photos, the way Flickr was once the place for photos.
For the photo-nerd crowd, 500px and SmugMug are just two of the many places you can talk about photos in a deep, constructive way. If you were a person who cared about taking, editing, and sharing photos, it was the best and most robust community of like-minded people on the Internet. Once upon a time, there was nothing like Flickr.
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