At the end of 2019, CEO Don MacAskill implored free users to sign up for Pro to keep the service going. Privately-held, Mountain View, Calif.-based SmugMug bought Flickr from Yahoo (Opens in a new window) in April 2018 for an undisclosed price, ending years of erratic stewardship that veered from neglect of the property Yahoo had bought in 2005 (Opens in a new window) to an ultimately unsustainable offer in 2013 of 1 terabyte of free storage. Under SmugMug, Flickr has dropped the 1TB freebie and raised Pro rates from $50/year. Seville explained that these changes would let the service “preserve and encourage the inspiring public photos free members contribute to Flickr, while also freeing up resources to focus on making our Pro communities stronger than ever.”īoth changes deepen SmugMug’s emphasis on Pro memberships (Opens in a new window), which run $8.25 a month, $71.99 a year, or $132.99 for two years for unlimited storage and ad-free usage. He also revealed another upcoming limit: Free accounts, already capped at 1,000 photos, will only be able to mark 50 of them as non-public. The post didn’t say when these changes will go live, so we asked SmugMug for clarification and will update this post if and when they provide it.

The SmugMug-owned photo-sharing site announced the change (Opens in a new window) in a post on Wednesday by Flickr head Alex Seville. Tasteful nudity and other friskier sorts of photography will remain welcome at Flickr, but only paying members will be able to share such images. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.

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