@variablepulserate It’s not just that people don’t want to pay it’s more like frustration especially with the way they handled forced deletion of photos (they should have grandfathered those users IMO).
The desperate plea this week tells me that their user base has been in a continued decline since Smugmug took over. I can’t see them supporting Flickr much longer at the current rates and I feel that photographers may not have a alternative to go to unless they self-host.
/@matigo