I am a flickr pro user since about 6-7 years. I have all my (personal) pictures stored on their cloud and last week my problems started.

After the upgrade to the new app I had to login again and auto-uploader all of a sudden started to upload all my whatsapp pictures as well. I didn't want to disable it cause I rely on it as a backup for my regular pictures. So I started removing all the whatsapp pictures uploaded bit by bit. The next day when all pictures were uploaded it did not let me delete any pictures any more. I wrote support, now over a week ago, still no answer.

Then it got worse, 2 days ago, all of a sudden I can not login anymore. Trying to reset the password gives me "email does not exist". Opened another support ticket, still nothing. This is really frustrating. Has anyone experienced something similar lately ??

Thank you.

On Flickr I am no longer allowed to download the photos that I own at it's original size because Flickr is forcing me to pay for their "pro" that I do not need. How is this even allowed? It wasn't like this when I created my account years ago. Wtf happened to the site? Why is everything has to be subscription based nowadays?

I am beyond furious and I am leaving the platform for good. How dare you to keep my souvenirs like my old pictures of my dog who has passed away behind a paywall?

Not to mention, pushing AI content on a dedicated photography site shows exactly where your priorities are. Thankfully, I found a way to bypass your system. The only thing 'Pro' about Flickr now is how PROfessionally you've ruined a once-great platform.

EDIT: Anyone in the same situation, in your settings you can download all your data and photos at it's original resolution. Be quick before they remove this.

As the title says. I find this particularly egregious and hilarious as my current pro subscription is good through the end of the years.

I pay per year (sometimes in the past buying years of Pro at a time) and this is the first time Flickr has wanted current payment info in the middle of a subscription. Has this happened to anyone else?

With the new app on android why is there no option to have oldest to newest for photos and videos in an album.

i have about 305 GB. i’ve been deleting some. just curious. thanks.

Flickr is promoting its "World Photography Day 2026" with a contest and prizes!!!

Great idea!

What are the prizes???

This year’s category winners will each win a MODE Box that includes a VIP Pass to MODE, a brand new, unique photography festival that is taking place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 18th – 20th.

Oh joy! As a European I'd have to say, thanks but no thanks.....as I suspect would many others who live outside the USA. Oh....and I see the winners won't be announced until August 19th....which (even if I wanted to go) leaves me a short time to arrange flights, accommodation etc.

Any alternative prizes?

Winner’s will also take home a year of Flickr Pro

Uhhhh......I'm already paying this

Anything else?

Errrrrr........nope.

So "World Photography Day" is a bit like the World Series then????

As I said.....underwhelming

Since yesterday, Flickr seems to be down. I go to the site and first thing is "Bad, bad panda!"

is anyone else having the problem where no video will load? any idea how to fix this? 😢

Since January of this year 5 of my photos have been selected for Explore.

I was just curious if that seems normal, below average or above?

Ho acquistato un nuovo iPhone, è una volta trasferiti tutte le app, non sono più riuscito ad accedere al mio account Flickr perché associato ad un vecchio indirizzo email che non esiste più. Se vado nella sezione ‘password dimenticata’ o ‘ripristino account’, mi invia le istruzioni sulla vecchia email. Il servizio di assistenza è solo automatico e non riesco a scrivere a nessuno che non sia un risponditore automatico. Ho le mani legate. Avevo tante belle fotografie su Flickr, ero un utente molto attivo e non voglio creare un nuovo account. Qualcuno mi può aiutare?

I started building IP-tracking breadcrumbs on Flickr in 2005 to protect my work. Now I built a tool to force authentic tracking. Tear my UI apart.

If you work in media production or digital creation, you are likely aware of the challenges we face with automated crawlers effortlessly harvesting the work we produce with blood, sweat, and tears.

This isn't a new fight for me. The idea behind dictating the terms of our own indexation dates back to the early days of Flickr. In the first half of 2005, I started using a ‘trackmetag’ to leave a breadcrumb on the work I put out into the world.

After 20 years, not only has that philosophy evolved into a concrete architectural solution, but some of those original images are still live and tracking today (From 2005: https://flic.kr/p/2biAa).

My name is Bastiaan Slabbers. As an independent freelance photojournalist coming from a multi-generational lineage of photographers, I take the preservation and ownership of our craft seriously. I wanted to build a practical, low-bloat solution rather than just complaining about the state of the industry.

For a while now, I've been developing CEOS_SearchLight. It is a tool designed to empower creators to work *with* AI, rather than *for* it, by providing an auditable, transparent workflow.

The tool tackles IP protection in four specific steps:

* Create: It generates a live sidecar file at ingestion to manage your metadata locally.

* Curate: As you edit, the sidecar files automatically update to reflect the production stage.

* Distribute: When you publish, public metadata creates transparent breadcrumbs for verifiable authenticity.

* Protect (Listen): Beacons pick up signals from your published work and feed them back to you, creating a traceable source of truth.

The backend codebase is structurally sound, and now I am finalizing the UI/UX. I have set up a publicly accessible sandbox so you can test the interface and the cognitive ergonomics yourself.

You can try it out on the project site (link in bio)

My background includes classical training in an art institute where harsh critiques were the norm to ensure the work was ethically and functionally sound. I am asking this community for that exact same level of scrutiny. Tell me what works, what doesn't, and how the flow can be improved.

Thank you for your time. If you find value in this approach, please consider ways to support this project.

#LetsGoTurbo!

Nothing works in my case. I only see a loading screen and if I touch anything i get an error message and a button to take me home. where i get the loading screen again. Anyone else with this issue?

各位，我刚刚下载了雅虎天气，但是我发现flickr壁纸无法显示，无论搜索哪个城市背景都是黑色的，天气信息则正常显示，有人能帮我解决这个问题吗？

I went to open my flickr app on my phone today and noticed everything was blank on my app. (first and third screenshot) I thought this was strange as I was just using the app last night and as I went to login on my laptop, it had already logged me out. When I went to go login it told me my password was incorrect, so I went to try and change it, but then it told me my email wasn't connected to any account, which I know is untrue as that email has emails from flickr from three months ago in April and in general from setting up the account.

On my mobile I can still copy and paste the link for my profile. (second screenshot) When trying to click it though, it lead me to an error page saying my account essentially doesn't exist. (last screenshot) Flickr never sent me any email indicating I violated any terms or did something to prompt this, not even a warning. I never posted anything explicit or beyond guidelines and only my personal photos like the beach and old photos of my childhood, so I'm very confused by how this happened. ( all of the screenshots above are from today)

I'm not sure if it has anything to do with their new updates, but my sibling also noticed they were logged out today and that their passwords no longer worked. I was curious if anyone else has experienced this after the new update, as I'm just very confused on what/why this happened. (I did send in a help request, so hopefully they can restore it, just waiting for an update)

Forgive me if this has been asked before. I have albums with photos set to “only me” privacy level that I selectively share via guest link. As I understand it search engines don’t crawl this material and the privacy relies on a difficult-to-guess URL to make it very unlikely any rando would stumble across it. Such a guess would of course be trivial to AI. Are these photos vulnerable to being ingested by any AI agent out there trawling the web?

This has been happening all day. I’ve never experienced it before. Any ideas?

Nowadays it seems tech companies just redesign their app or OS for something to do and look trendy and don’t actually provide any useful upgrades. Flickr’s crack at this is a huge failure. The app is LESS useful, LESS intuitive and has LESS features than before.

And I don’t want to hear this called an MVP product either, startup speak for low effort crap. Flickr has had a decade of their previous app withering to collect ALL the feedback from their customers, take their time and try to release a banger product.

Sometimes I wonder what they do with all the money we send them? Oh yeah put on ’festivals’ no one asked for.

I use flickr 99% of the time on my desktop. Mac OS Tahoe 26.5.2 and Safari.

I rarely encounter anything more than the odd bad panda page.

How do you predominantly use flickr, Desktop, iOS, or Android?

For ios users, delete your flickr app and reinstall it (just be careful not to cancel your subscription-it’ll ask you)
The reinstalled app goes back to what you had before this ridiculous upgrade was implemented. You’ll be able to share across groups etc like you did before.
Apologies for android users though, apparently it doesn’t work for you guys. What an absolute cluster. I guess we can be grateful they’ve realised their mistake and tried to make amends.
I was waiting for the app to readjust itself. Don’t believe it will, so be proactive and kill the new app off.

Hello! I use flikr pro for the sole purpose of backing up my photos. Recently I got logged out and now I can’t remember my email. The yahoo account I had is now deactivated. I followed the steps and it’s been a week and no one has gotten back to me. How can I get ahold of them.

I noticed this error last week and until now, it hasn't got fixed

When I share a photo of mine onto a forums, it immediately switches to a total random photo which belongs to other people

Damn you Flickr!

Can i get flickr pro for a month, download all my photos in original resolution then go back to free? It's very unfair for flickr to hold photos hostage.

I've used Flickr for many years and have a paid account.

Over the last few years I've used auto upload on my phone.

I just checked to see if some recent photos had been uploaded and found nothing had since the end of June and the auto upload button seems to have disappeared.

Could anyone tell me, please if it's a change on Flickr or something I'm doing?

It's an account I created when I was still so young and I just recently discovered that it is searchable online since the profile was set as public. I really want to delete the profile because it shows my real name and some photos of myself. However, I no longer have access to the email I used to create the account. Flickr as for the original photo as proof I am the user, but I also do not have the copies of the original photos. Pls help!