People might remember Flickr for its communities, but I remember it for being a great archive of public photos. I have over 22,000 photos in my account — all o

People might remember Flickr for its communities, but I remember it for being a great archive of public photos. I have over 22,000 photos in my account — all of them privately shared with my family. I'm a Pro user, however I only became a Pro thinking that if I stop paying, then the photos I uploaded will be safe from deletion. And I renewed my subscription right after SmugMug announced the acquisition, along with saying that they "don't have any plans to change free accounts". I guess that wasn't a reasonable expectation. Unfortunately I might have to move off Flickr because it's not a safe storage for my photos. I guess that's the point of their upgrade, heh? They don't want archives, they want communities. Except that for actually sharing photos with people, Facebook, Instagram, Google Photos are wildly more popular. Which makes Flickr just a forum with a slow interface. --- I do understand the business reasons. If it keeps the lights on, then I guess it's better than the alternative. But I'm also afraid that this will kill Flickr for good.