flickr

Yesterday I tried to sign up for Flicker. After receiving the confirmation email I clicked at the link, and I could login.
But after that, I directly got the message "Account creation failed".

No other message, nothing. So I tried again, with another browser. Same issue applies.

Strange as it is my first try to sign up with this website. With an email address from a domain that only exists a few weeks.

I send an email for help. And guess what?!
I am being seen as "risky" and denied having an account. No explanation, nothing. I am just risky? This makes me angry.

Why am I risky? Because I live in Bulgaria? And thus must be risky, that is how it feels. Being dismisses as a kind of criminal.

I never have done anything against the law, on the contrary, for all my jobs I needed a risk/security clearance. Which I have gotten, always.
And then being dismissed as "risky". Says enough about a company like this.

Flickr you are discriminating, and thus you have no right to exist.

Since Smugmug bought it, it doubled it's subscription rate, out of pure corporate greed. Also, they delete your account if anyone complains about even one pic that they don't like. After building my albums over a ten year period with 30,000 pics, and over 150 million views, they deleted my account for no viable reason. I would never use there service again.

If you love pictures and photography, you have got to be on Flickr! I think it's pretty cool how you can arrange your pictures as per sets and categories. Moreover it comes with online photo editor, so no need for expensive editing software licenses!

I have been a member of Flickr since around 2009 and I believe it's the best photo sharing site around. But if you ever have a problem such as being unable to log on or forgetting your password, username, security questions etc, then forget asking Flickr or Yahoo for help because you will probably be locked out of your account for eternity. They will put every available obstacle in your way to prevent you from recovering your original Flickr page. I will be looking for another photograph sharing site.

So my experience with Flickr began with creating a memorial of memories to celebrate my stepfather who recently passed. I loaded up photos, and advised family how to view them.
Sadly without explanation the site stopped registering my account after a few days. With no explanation I tried registering the same email. It allowed me to create a site again, but the memorial content had been deleted.
I followed up with Flickr support, who eventually sent a generic email saying my account had been deleted, that further accounts would be deleted a link to their t&c but no explanation why!

Requested details, but they didn't respond, worst site I've seen. Also no way to retrieve your photos if your only copy was with Flickr.
I'll use any app before them in future.

Seems like this platform has gone downhill since smugmug took over. They keep pushing everyone into getting pro or risk losing their account completely.

And then they are constantly advertising promotions to incentivize new pro upgrades, but never give any sort of discounts to existing members.

Customer support is absolutely useless too

Flickr is an online photo management. It is good for showing off your photos and videos. You can even make photos private so only your family can view them.
There are lots of apps to customize your viewing.
Only allows 200 pics if you are on free account.
Uploading photos in this site is good!.

Ive been a member of Flickr for 5+ years. Great site, millions of images. The "community" aspect of Flickr - "friends, followers etc" has eroded a bit over the years - probably due to Facebook. There are several excellent iPad apps that access Flickr to get wallpapers etc.

Flickr will not let you recover your account, says they can delete it but after years and years the account will still be there with all the photos. They are using what it's not theirs. And the users have no control over their personal details and art.

After a family reunion, many of us joined Flickr so we could share and buy each other's photos. Unfortunately, we just realized after our pictures have all been uploaded to a private group site, that we cannot order each other's pictures…you can only order from your own photos. Very disappointing.

They lured you to their site with the offer of a free terabyte of photo backup, and then abruptly announce that they will delete all of your photos unless you switch to a paid account (and it is a PAIN IN THE $#*! to rescue your pictures from their site).

Why would ANYONE give in to this extortion and pay? Should we trust them THIS time.

Hell to the no.

If you are going to a pay site... pay one that doesn't $#*! around with the dishonest bait-and-switch. Or. Try shoebox, Google backup, or smugmug, which remain free.

Screw Flickr... with a rusty screw.

There is no way to log off Flickr. I deleted my account.
Since I must enter at least 100 characters into this review, I'll just keep typing until I meet that minimum. I wanted to log off Flickr, then go to the Flickr site to "test" my uploads; but as long as I'm on the computer I used to create my account, I'm always logged in. This lack of control is enough to make me avoid Flickr.

So, 8 years ago I posted a bunch of traveling pictures on Flickr.com, with public access (bad mistake). Time passed, and surprisingly, I've matured, and now I want to remove the pictures that I posted 8 years ago, because some of them are REALLY embarrassing, and I don't want anyone in my current social circles to come across them. BUT since then I changed my email address a couple of times and I cant seem to match the email address of the account = Flickr.com are refusing to remove these picture or even un-publish them! Its driving me crazy! I understand security issues and all, but seriously, I want them off the platform and I can't do any thing about that!
So my advice to you - if you are thinking of posting pictures and making them available to the public - take in mind that if you change an email address throughout the years and lose the one (email address) you registered to that website with - you will never be able to remove them! FML.

It had been about 2 months since my wife logged into her account, she logs in and is greated with a dialogue box Join Flikr or lose years of photos. No option to download what she already had, she was forced to pay or lose everything. They had suddenly decided to lower storage for all free accounts. This in itself is not exactly bad business, but there should have been an option to at least download what was over and move on, instead of forcing a payment. I consider that a scam and fits the definition of ransomware quite well. Otherwise... great service until this I suppose.

Flickr has been treating everyone like crap by moderating or removing everybody's photos or deleting their accounts for any reason. I was treated like crap because I had many people blocking me from their Flickr citing that I was stealing their photos using the Flickr Toys Mosaic Maker without permission. Then many people continued to block me for dictating what I can and cannot post as Flickr has a strict no-uploading-any-nudity policy. Then I had five or six of my Flickr accounts terminated without warning.

They also want to moderate everything as I am not a pedrophile or that guy as I have a life and everyone knows that! Flickr can and will delete everyone's accounts for any reason and nobody is going to shell their 50 USD for a pro account.

I was a Pro member for over a decade and decided it wasn't worth it so I thought if I just didn't renew my credit card information when it expired that the payment wouldn't go through…I was wrong. When I tried to reach a person to cancel my account the email and phones both said they don't monitor them, so I deleted my account and all photos. 3 weeks later I was still not reimbursed.

Can't log on. Enter my email address and it directs me to the new user window. Enter that email in the new user window and it tells me that address is already in use. Back and forth. Garbage. And to contact the Flickr incompetents, they want your user URL. Seriously? How moronic is that?!?!? Exactly how am I supposed to get that? Hmm? Garbage site. Deserves a negative 5 stars.

You can 'give the gift of Pro' to someone on Flickr. They can reject your gift and you won't be informed. In other words you won't get a refund and Flickr will keep your money.

I'm not buying a Pro account for anyone. I'm just amazed that a large company can legally do this do this.

And you used to be able to upload something like a terrabyte of photos on Flickr. In fact it was encouraged. Then a new company called 'Smugmug' bought Flickr, introduced a new upload limit and effectively called anyone who had a free account a leech. Now who's the leech, taking peoples money and giving them nothing in return?

Surely this is illegal?

Flickr have deleted my account but will not tell me why, yet all I had posted was my own scenic pictures from where I live. It shamefull that a company such as Flickr can do this with no warning and explanation is beyond me. The official response makes you feel that you have done something really bad when in fact you have not. Where are the helpfull staff? I gather that when they say not at liberty to discuss specifics means thay have not got a clue.
Hi there,

This account was terminated for Terms of Use and Community Guideline violations and will not be restored. You are no longer permitted to possess a Flickr account, nor access or use services, which includes as well as Attempts to create new accounts on either of these services will be deleted as well.

We're not at liberty to discuss the specifics of accounts closed for violations.

I am very disappointed with Flickr I thought it was a high-end product like yahoo. But its not. Today I tried to sign in Flickr with my google account but it already fills out my yahoo mail account and automatically creates an account with my yahoo. This always happens everytime i want to sign in with my gmail account. Very frustating because i have to delete the new account every $#*!ing time I want to sign in with my gmail account. So after I have logged in to my gmail account I will back up my photos I'll delete my flickr account associated with my gmail account and i wont use this service again, seems their very desperate for new users and waste my time.

1000's of pics of my travels throughout the years, pics of my nephew as an infant all gone with no warning given. Now they won't allow me to retrieve those pics for no apparent good reason. How does that correct the issue? Robbing me of some of my most valuable pics doesn't resolve anything. All because I accidentally clicked on a file for upload. I was completely aware of the TOA, the upload of the NSFW was done accidentally. This is completely unprofessional behavior on behalf of Flickr, they are within their right to delete my account but at least give me an opportunity to retrieve the pictures that hold much sentimental value to me.

It started as a family site but it's full of porn, app doesn't have dark mode and they keep getting greedy for money by increasing the fee all the time.

Buyer beware. Do not use this travel agency. They will leave you stranded in a foreign country with no support. Ended up having to pay our own way home because the agency was closed over the weekend