Upload Sensitive Photos On Flickr Now Only Valid For Pro Version Users

JAKARTA - In an effort to attract more profit on the app, Flickr changed its content guidelines to only allow Flickr Pro users to post limited content.

Usually this limited content includes sensitive photos. In 2018, when SmugMug acquired the photo hosting service, CEO Don MacAskill hoped to make the service profitable.

But Flickr is very expensive to run, because it holds so much data on the internet. Under SmugMug's management, Flickr sets a limit on how many photos a free user can store, to just 1000 photos.

In addition, Flickr also warns users that after a certain date, their photos may be deleted. This major change is expected to save users' personal archives by upgrading to a paid plan.

So far, those efforts have not yielded any money. Therefore, Flickr is now leveraging NSFW uploads as a new cash field.

“Photographers who create and create work that some may find sexual will have a safe place online to interact with each other, share common interests, and put their art out into the world without fear of being removed or completely banned from the communities they love. ,” said Flickr Head, Alex Seville, in an official blog post.

According to TechCrunch, Friday, March 18, Flickr continues to limit what users can do with their free accounts. Today's announcement also states that now, free users can only post 50 non-public photos.

“We love being trusted with your photos, but we're (also) happy to see them found, added to groups, and submitted to more photo competitions. We'll never turn you down if you just want a safe place to store images for life, you just need a Pro membership to do that."