In the beginning, Flickr innovated the way people could share and discover photographs of all kinds and from all over the world. Flickr was for photos a bit what Youtube was for videos, but the two had a profoundly different destiny.
Youtube was bought by Google, an always competitive company, rich and capable of maximizing profits and improving services; Flickr, on the other hand, was bought by Yahoo, a real estate company, not very innovative and still looking for identity.
Flickr then, from the best site to share photos via the internet, became one of many, today clearly surpassed by Pinterest and Instagram, among the best visual sites to search for images and photos on the internet .
Yahoo! however she seems to be back in shape and has finally, after so many years, not only renewed Flickr but by presenting a free offer that it would really be stupid to ignore.
UPDATE November 2018: Flickr, which in the meantime has been sold by Yahoo to Smugmug, has changed the photo upload plan for free accounts with the terrible limit of up to 1000 photos which compared to the Terabyte of the previous plan is such a resounding resizing from make me say, Goodbye Flickr!
Today, the new Flickr outperforms any other online photo storage website, including Google+ (see description of the new Google photo site) by raising the available user quota to 1 TB, free for everyone .
In practice it is possible to upload photos online, for backup reasons or to share them with friends or in the community, without having to resize them and in their original resolution, up to a maximum of 1TB which is 1000 GB!
Pro subscriptions will no longer be on sale and many of the restrictions previously imposed on free accounts have been removed, including limiting the image resolution and size.
Previously, only Flickr paid Pro accounts could upload photos in full resolution.
Today, however, the maximum size of an image is 200 MB (before it was 10MB for fre and 50MB for Pro) and this for everyone.
Full HD videos up to 1 GB each can also be uploaded to Flickr.
There is no longer the maximum upload limit of 100 MB photos in a month and you are free to upload 1000 GB of photos all together.
To get an idea of what 1 TB means, just think that if you take photos with the 5 Megapixel mobile phone camera, you can upload almost 700, 000 photos in a Terabyte to Flickr.
From now on, therefore, there are no more new Pro accounts on Flickr but only subscription plans will be activated: one for $ 50 a year to eliminate advertising, the other for $ 500 to increase the space to 2 TB.
Existing Pro users have the option to renew their subscription to stay with unlimited space or switch to a free account.
The new Flickr website has also changed its graphic aspect becoming more modern, with a cover photo, a new look for viewing albums and photos.
Flickr mobile for mobile also offers iPhone and Android applications with auto-backup and integrated camera .
Flickr therefore returns to be the number one of the photography sites, the best site to share photos even in private, with an exceptional offer, which allows everyone to upload photos online at maximum resolution to keep them safely in the archive of the renewed social network.
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