I know this is gonna sound stupid, but I just opened up my first Flickr account yesterday. I got really excited about finally being able to put all of my photos somewhere online that no one I knew could see because I am very insecure about any of the work I do. So... I started posting like- everything. A total of 8 photos in the span of an hour, 21 photos in about a day. The reason I mention my frequency is because its the only reason I can think of that my account got deleted, that my activity looked like spam. I know it's stupid because the account was so fresh, but is there any way I can get my account back? I contacted Flickr help but just keep getting emails with a link to accessing an account I don't have the password or email to.

I upgraded my account to Pro and now I can't see any of my photos unless I'm logged into THAT account.

After I favorite a picture from some accounts, I stop getting access to view their uploaded pictures. The screen is just white/grey no error text, no nothing. Is there a fix to this? Is IP or location block real?

Hi All,

With the recent warnings (I may have ignored earlier ones?), about public vs private images - I went in and made all my photos public so that they wouldn't delete it.

However, it appears that the free option is 1k limit and I have around 1,100 images. Sooooo, not sure if they're gonna delete me anyway?

Here's my dilemma - I pay for apple icloud, have access to google storage free, also pay for dropbox.

While I'm pretty sure most of the photos on my Flickr account are elsewhere - what is not, are the folders (I created them by "events"), that include photos that are named and have descriptions.

I'm at a loss as to what to do with these memories. I don't want to pay $75 a year to save these since I'm already paying for other services.

The only option I can see is create a Blurb photo book?

Other than that - does anyone have a digital option where I can keep these memories?

Thanks!

Seriously. I tried to open an account TWICE using the same gmail address. Every single time, the account got deleted after uploading a family photo. Then I noticed this has happened to many people ever since the company was taken over. That sounds familiar? Flickr is clearly being burned to the ground. Well, I won't be trusting them with my photos and I will also steer clear of SmugMug.

Hi all

I just logged into my old account for the first time in a while and noticed that several of the users who have left comments on my photos over the years have since deleted their accounts and their names display as a random pair of words that I’m pretty sure weren’t their original usernames 😅 ex: “Temporary Bike (deleted)” or “Silent Market (deleted)”

I realize this is a silly question but I’ve never noticed this before and I’m curious. Is this automatically done upon account deletion?

Thanks!

I requested my Flickr Data, which provided me with:

• Account Data (download zip file 1, 2)
• Photos and Videos (downloads 1-36)

I'm assuming the data is the information with each photo. How would I transfer the data and images to another service - is it even possible?

My preference would be to somehow save the image data (dates) to drop it into another service (considering Google Photos).

Has anyone successfully transferred Account Data + Photos/Videos to another service?

The pics are downloading, but it won't show the metadata; I only need the "date taken."

Hi, I was randomly logged out of my account today for no reason, and I signed in with my save info (which is confirmed to be correct for login in the past) however today they determined it incorrect. Could I perchance get some help with this?

Not sure why they couldn't be bothered to send me a warning. Especially so since the images in question are acceptable as-is on essentially ALL other social media sites, AND the swimsuits in question are no more revealing that those a person can see on any public beach in the US.

Looks like my time at Flickr may finally be coming to an end after 15 years... for some reason this really pissed me off. Especially the no warning.

Flickr's own web browser uploader doesn't understand folders.

Hi everyone, I'm hoping to get some advice or insight as to why Flickr would just blacklist/block a user's ability to open a new account. I have, or had, a free account which I used heavily without issue for maybe 4 months. Then my phone screen broke and I lost all my passwords not saved in my Google account, which included my Flickr sign in details. This caused my account to not only be flagged for immediate deletion, but I've also apparently been put on some weird blacklist and now unable to create a new account. I've tried using different emails at sign up (their "support" person even suggested doing this specifically if their system decides to flag your email address as "risky", whatever that means) and out of the 5 different services I tried, none have worked :( How does this happen and how do I fix it? It honestly feels personal at this point, though they won't admit to it or tell me why.

As the title says i have entomophobia and arachnophobia and would like to block those types of images when browsing since they appear in like a 10th of the photos

Anyone had the same experience the last few days since upgrading to iOS18? It’s basically unusable.

I created a Flickr account long ago, and have not touched it much in many years.

Today I received this email (all formatting removed; pasted in plain text only).

Is it real? Have any rules changed NOW that would trigger this?

The Flickr Team

www.flickr.com

From:

flickrteam@arrow.flickr.com[is this flickr's real email address?]

To:

xxxxxxxx@yahoo.com[I redacted this for this post]

Fri, Oct 4 at 9:11 AM

Flickr

Hi , [note no name here, just a blank space between "Hi" and comma]

Your account is over Flickr’s 50 non-public photo limit for free accounts. Now is the time to act to protect your photos.

As of October 4, 2024, you have non-public photos on your free account. As soon as possible, please:

Change your privacy settings to make excess photos public, OR

Download excess non-public photos and remove them from your Flickr account, OR

Subscribe to Flickr Pro

Your photos are invaluable, and we want to ensure they remain protected, so please take action by November 3, 2024 or your content will be deleted.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact our Support Heroes.

-The Flickr Team

Your use of Flickr is subject to the Flickr Terms & Conditions of Use and Community Guidelines.

This is a necessary legal or administrative message to our users; there is no unsubscribe option.

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© 2024 Flickr, P.O. Box 390123, Mountain View, CA 94039

Is this subreddit an ok place to share our Flickr usernames?

I wanted to check the hive mind in case it’s no the done thing here 👍

I used to be able to scroll to the "bottom" and more images would appear. Did that feature get removed? I've looked for a "page 2" option but I do not see one. Howe can I see more of the images of people i am following?

Anyone else having problems with uploading taking hours to upload a handful of photos.

I have high speed internet with 40mbit up. It has been over 12 hours and it is still in the process of uploading a couple dozen photos from my iPhone via home WiFi. Actually, they are photos taken with my DJI drone that I transferred to my iPhone. I have a pro subscription, so they shouldn't be throttling my upload speeds plus I only upload a few photos every month. I am a light user.

I love flickr and below are few reasons why I think flickr are irreplaceable by any other "social media" platform and credits need to be given.

• dynamically adjusting grid view (photostream) that works with any aspect ratio and has just the right amount of margin in between photos. IMO instagram killed traditional photography with the forced 4:5 aspect ratio recently. Although this was long time coming. Even still, its previous static square grid gets boring real quickly and non existing margin makes it an eyesore for photography from a visual design perspective. On the other hand, VSCO photostream looks better but its margin suffers the opposite problem, big white gap in between photos that takes away the story and connection within a photo montage.

• incredible resolution on the desktop view AND the ability to download original image. Instagram compress your photos to shit and there is no way to download it. Whereas with flickr I always know if I for some reason need a high quality version of my photos I can take them straight from flickr and it's much better experience than digging through google drive or what have you.

• an absolute amazing selection of quality, varied, interesting photos on the daily. I dont think ANY platform has the quality of images that flickr explore has on a daily basis. Sure, some stock image site may have more working professionals' work but flickr as an amateur photography site punched above its weight. Imagine if instagram had a public photo pool (not the recommended page) on the daily I would not be surprised if 50% were influencers selfies, 20% celebrities photos, 20% low resolution memes, trash post, and then maybe 10% actual photography. If you think second life content is bad, just try opening instagram snd you will see.

• groups, comment, socialization, and general etiquette. If you have been only using flickr so far and think flickr community is small, take that as a blessing as the (human) world out there is ugly, depressing, and pitiful. To take an extreme example, Flickr is probably the only place on the internet where the image of a nude women does not attract comments like "whats her @" "only fans" "nice try diddy" comment, or in other cases the usage of derogatory racial slurs on images of other racial groups or of other countries. No various promotion of products, services. Instead, people greets and gives compliments to images, constructive feedback. I am not over stating to say that I sometimes think flickr is the idealized society of antiquities where arts truly flourish and everyone has the freedom to participate with dignity and respect.

There are many more I want to say, like exif data, third party app, album features, etc but essentially flickr as a whole is truly unique in 2024 and we shouldn't take a for granted. And we should in fact protect it from the failures we have seen on other image focused sites.

Its great watching the slide shows of photo streams on the album tv. The photos are just so great. Real sharp and great colour depth.

what alternatives to flickr exist that will allow me to upload porn without having to pay for a "pro subscription"

i have caught flickr looking at my private photos, i have a free account and i uploaded some adult content as private, flickr suspended my account but they must have been looking at my private photos to know i uploaded adult content.

Sorry for the dumb question. Has anyone encountered errors while they are trying to sign in and make new accounts recently? I have been trying for multiple times in multiple devices but somehow I always fail to make a new account.

I have sent a client some album s for him to pick the faves. Now I have a couple problems.

1. Is there a way to make a list of his selections?
2. Some earlier notifications from him with selections are now missing from the notifications window.

Is this company and its support sleeping? I have tried new email IDs but at last it always shows 'Account creation failed' !!! Don't they want new people to create account??? Stupid! and their support ain't even replying!

I’ve tried multiple emails with making an account and every time it says oops something went wrong. Anyone know why?