Anyone else having trouble uploading photos?

I opened the flickr app and there was a screen saying I exceeded the limit of photos for non members so I went ahead and bought a subscription but as soon as I did ALL my 10k photos were gone. All the photos of my son for the first 4 years of his life GONE. Is there anything I can do? I bought pro, sent a message to customer service. Im so devastated. If not a solution has anyone ever had any luck getting their photos back?

When I open the app on my phone at first I can still see all the dates and gray squares where my photos were before it snaps back to only showing me 50 photos im hoping this means theres a shot I can get all my photos back going all the way back to when I started the account in 2014

Prompted by this post, it occurred to me that Flickr is a great resource for AI training, and that's not something I want my photos used for. So I just set all of my photos to all rights reserved.

You can do it in organiser, takes about 5 clicks, and took about 3 mins for it to update all 1.6k photos on my profile.

I hear a lot of comments here and elsewhere that "groups are sh*t", "groups are dead", "group xyz hasn't had an admin for 8 years", etc.

This amazes and depresses me. Groups are user-created, user-administrated, and user moderated. There must be tens of thousands of groups and yes, many are dormant, but there are many absolutely amazing, very active groups out there (try "[UMAMI]", or "!nto the atmosphere" for example).

If the groups that you like don't seem to be active, then either...

a) apply to take over as admin and kick-start some activity

b) find another group

c) start your own group and start inviting users and photos to it.

Whatever you do, stop railing on Fickr for the fact that your chosen groups are "dead". Look, and you'll find many that are very much alive!

IMO something that's genuinely missing from Flickr is the ability to categorise people you follow into why you follow them. For example, some people do fantastic landscape photos but also shoot a lot of frankly poor photos of their toddler grandchild.

Being able to add or put "collection" level categorisation onto the photographers I follow would make looking through my home feed much more rewarding.

I want to sort my photo stream in app by date taken. When I use the desktop version and sort it this way the photos appear correctly but the order never changes in my app. They still appear in the order uploaded. Is there a way to fix this?

I often see parts of the website which haven't been developed since 2009. And most users are still the ones who signed up 10 years ago. I would like to know if Flickr is (still) growing and what you would advise SmugMug to stay relevant.

Beside that there is no real alternative for Flickr which offers full resolution sharing and EXIF information so I think there is market for this.

Is there a way to grow? Because i'm not a professional photographer but i want some people can see my photos and they can comment them so i can improve my skills. But if you isn't a famous photographer it's difficult to grow. So how can i grow? (Sorry for my bad english)

Hi, I've had a flickr account since 2015. All of my photos from 2011-2018 were stored on my flickr account and nowhere else. I logged in today to find all but my 50 most recent photos were no longer there. I looked it up and found the new policy regarding the number of public/private photos you are allowed to have with a free account. All my photos were private. I contacted their staff and they said they were deleted nov 24th of 2024 and no way to recover. I joined Pro in a last ditch effort but still only have 50 photos. The weird thing is when I first login it looks like all my photos are there but once I start scrolling, the scroll bar shortens to the 50 photos (if that makes sense). It's really depressing to think about years of memories being totally erased, if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears!

Hello, I just recently signed up for Flickr Pro. I’ve created an album and then provided a link to my parents. It seems that the link doesn’t remain static for an album, or maybe the link changes when the album gets updated? My mom tried clicking on the link after I’ve updated the album and she says it’s asking her to login, which I don’t understand. I’m assuming the link is no longer valid. Any suggestions that’ll make it easy for parents to always have access to an album? Thank you.

Yesterday, when I wanted to add some new photos to my photostream, the upload page is almost blank.....In the upper left corner there's an "+Add" button, which does open files for me to select images, but the rest of the page is black. (My screen isn't black, because the Flickr header bar is still there.) The photo never uploads and, of course, there's no help on the Flickr site itself.

It's still that way today. I've tried different browsers (Firefox and Chrome), I've tried turning off my adblocker and tried clearing my cookies -- still nothing.

Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have a solution?

I picked Firefox because I wanted an easy and free photo sharing app that friends could access without having to be members themselves. Today I'm kind of sorry I picked Flickr, so I'll go shopping for something else, I suppose.

Hello,

I'm in a state with "Age Verification" laws so the site in question forces registration. I so rarely check my Flickr email that this message may even be obsolete. I also don't have any "porn" pictures uploaded -- the images allegedly "stolen" were of a bikini car wash, so they do show women in bikinis.

Is there any reason to believe this site is one that uses digital manipulation to make PG photos "pornographic"? Should I actually register to investigate? I'm thinking this is just a spam ad masquerading as a "helpful whistleblower", but I'd hate to find out in the future that my work was used illicitly -- because of course all of it is Creative Commons.

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Is that normal on Flickr? I'm new to the platform.

For some reason my plan (usually £111.84 for 2 years) was switched/defaulted back to monthly. Monthly is billed at £8.79/month, so for two years that would be an equivalent of £210.96, almost double what I planned to pay.

Caught it before it took effect, and I'd probably have noticed it in my bank statements anyway, but just getting the word out.

Is there anyway to sett my notifications so that I only get them when someone replies to one of my comments in a thread? Currently, anytime someone makes a comment on a picture I've also made a comment on, I get a notification.

https://www.thephoblographer.com/2025/01/12/why-photographers-are-ditching-instagram-for-this-platform-in-2025/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=user/Phoblographer

I don't get how and why, the last picture i posted in Flickr on November 21st has zero view. Iam puzzled as while my account is moderated due to nude photography, never a picture was invisibled that way in years.

Did this kind of odd happened to anyone else ?
Is there or was there a glitchy bug by the end of November ?

The picture in question, wich i also posted on reddit in the replications sub: https://www.flickr.com/photos/61844125@N05/54155842139/in/dateposted-public/

I have been a paying memebr since 2007 and Flickr deleted my account. They don't have customer support, if you don't believe check their website for help. See this link https://www.flickrhelp.com/hc/en-us

Hi everyone. Toying with the idea of uploading photos to Flickr. I’m not a photographer but have taken some photos over the years of life that I wouldn’t mind organising chronologically.

Sort of like a personal scrap book, visual diary I guess. I don’t want to use instagram anymore, the adds are rotting my brain, the social pressure eats at me. I just want to have a humble album of the meaningful moments in my life that I can share with people if necessary.

A lot of people connect via socials these days and I don’t have Facebook so now I’ve deactivated insta, I would like something.

Based off of this is Flickr a good choice?

Don't know if it's just me, but I cannot get the app to function today, and going on the website via mobile seems no better. Anyone else?

They seem the only one where you can easy see the EXIF information. Photos posted on Reddit or other social media are stripped of this information. Is there any alternative for Flickr who keep this info?

From $78 to $144 🙄😬 I don't see any proportional value add ! This is a bit steep for someone who does not monetize her photos!

Thinking of migrating away from permanent to a temporary hosting strategy!

I've been wondering why Flickr doesn't turn off submissions to groups that don't have an active admin (like the only admins/mods haven't posted to Flickr in 10 years in many cases).

I signed up for Pro mostly for the unlimited storage a couple years ago but have come to appreciate that Flickr actually still has people on it who really care about photography.

But it's taken me a long time to find these people (esp ones with similar taste in photography), and I think that's in part because so much of the site is just these orphaned, adrift, ghost groups. It's like a city that's 90% abandoned. Also a lot of these orphaned groups are half-full of garbage. It makes the site a lot less pleasant to hang out on.

I feel like the obvious solution is... Just turn off submissions to all those groups. And have an easy way to search for groups that have an admin or mod who still logs in to the site every once in a while.

So why don't they do this? Are they trying to hide how many people actually use the site, I wonder? Because sometimes it feels like there are tens of thousands of people on Flickr, and other times it feels like there are... dozens, maybe.

Probably just talking into the void here but thought I'd post the question anyway. Interested in any thoughts.

I had previously created an account on 2023 sept but that account somehow got deleted in Feb 2024,I was shocked and ever since then I tried creating an flickr account on numerous occasions and they just fail. Have you all experienced this issue, it's frustrating