Flick pro en quête de clients pros....

[Michel]

Comme beaucoup d'entre vous j'ai reçu ce message de Flick proposant une réduction de 25% du montant de l'abonnement "pro" qui semble avoir du mal à décoller auprès des utilisateurs nonobstant ce qu'affirme les gestionnaires.
Dear friends,
Flickr—the world's most-beloved, money-losing business—needs your help.

Two years ago, Flickr was losing tens of millions of dollars a year. Our company, SmugMug, stepped in to rescue it from being shut down and to save tens of billions of your precious photos from being erased.

Why? We've spent 17 years lovingly building our company into a thriving, family-owned and -operated business that cares deeply about photographers. SmugMug has always been the place for photographers to showcase their photography, and we've long admired how Flickr has been the community where they connect with each other. We couldn't stand by and watch Flickr vanish.

So we took a big risk, stepped in, and saved Flickr. Together, we created the world's largest photographer-focused community: a place where photographers can stand out and fit in.

We've been hard at work improving Flickr. We hired an excellent, large staff of Support Heroes who now deliver support with an average customer satisfaction rating of above 90%. We got rid of Yahoo's login. We moved the platform and every photo to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the industry leader in cloud computing, and modernized its technology along the way. As a result, pages are already 20% faster and photos load 30% more quickly. Platform outages, including Pandas, are way down. Flickr continues to get faster and more stable, and important new features are being built once again.

Our work is never done, but we've made tremendous progress.

Now Flickr needs your help. It's still losing money. Hundreds of thousands of loyal Flickr members stepped up and joined Flickr Pro, for which we are eternally grateful. It's losing a lot less money than it was. But it's not yet making enough.

We need more Flickr Pro members if we want to keep the Flickr dream alive.

We didn't buy Flickr because we thought it was a cash cow. Unlike platforms like Facebook, we also didn't buy it to invade your privacy and sell your data. We bought it because we love photographers, we love photography, and we believe Flickr deserves not only to live on but thrive. We think the world agrees; and we think the Flickr community does, too. But we cannot continue to operate it at a loss as we've been doing.

Flickr is the world's largest photographer-focused community. It's the world's best way to find great photography and connect with amazing photographers. Flickr hosts some of the world's most iconic, most priceless photos, freely available to the entire world. This community is home to more than 100 million accounts and tens of billions of photos. It serves billions of photos every single day. It's huge. It's a priceless treasure for the whole world. And it costs money to operate. Lots of money.

Flickr is not a charity, and we're not asking you for a donation. Flickr is the best value in photo sharing anywhere in the world. Flickr Pro members get ad-free browsing for themselves and their visitors, advanced stats, unlimited full-quality storage for all their photos, plus premium features and access to the world's largest photographer-focused community for less than $5 per month.

You likely pay services such as Netflix and Spotify at least $9 per month. I love services like these, and I'm a happy paying customer, but they don't keep your priceless photos safe and let you share them with the most important people in your world. Flickr does, and a Flickr Pro membership costs less than $1 per week.

Please, help us make Flickr thrive. Help us ensure it has a bright future. Every Flickr Pro subscription goes directly to keeping Flickr alive and creating great new experiences for photographers like you. We are building lots of great things for the Flickr community, but we need your help. We can do this together.

We're launching our end-of-year Pro subscription campaign on Thursday, December 26, but I want to invite you to subscribe to Flickr Pro today for the same 25% discount.

We've gone to great lengths to optimize Flickr for cost savings wherever possible, but the increasing cost of operating this enormous community and continuing to invest in its future will require a small price increase early in the new year, so this is truly the very best time to upgrade your membership to Pro.

If you value Flickr finally being independent, built for photographers and by photographers, we ask you to join us, and to share this offer with those who share your love of photography and community.

With gratitude,

Don MacAskill
Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Geek
SmugMug + Flickr

Use and share coupon code 25in2019 to get 25% off Flickr Pro now.

[Michel]

C'est également mon avis. Actuellement c'est trop cher. L'idéal serait d'avoir la possibilité de deposer jusqu'à 4 000 images pour un abonnement de 20 euros.

[Michel]

Je n'en ai pas le souvenir, ce doit être ancien, plus de dix ans.

[Laurent A]

Vers 2012, l'abonnement annuel était à $24.95, j'ai retrouvé mes commandes. J'étais resté abonné plusieurs années.
Ils pourraient proposer un compte limité à 500Go ou 1To de photos en jpg uniquement, pour ce prix là.

[Michel]

Vu les flux de pub qu'un tel site pourrait générer point n'est besoin de facturer aux usagers.

[oeufmollet]

Salut
J'ai l'abonnement pro à 50$/an, c'est pas donné mais au moins je suis tranquille, je me pose pas de questions quand j'ai des photos, pas besoin de faire une sélection hyper stricte, résultat des courses j'ai plus de 4000 photos dessus, triées par sortie (concert du ..., balade zozio du ...) et par type (albums zozio, album macro ...).
Par contre je limite souvent la taille, déjà parce que jusqu'à récemment, l'upload était lent, donc balancer 100 photos énormes pouvait prendre des plombes. Aussi pour ne pas me faire voler des photos trop facilement, en général je propose aux concernés (ex : le groupe que j'ai pris en photo en concert) les versions HD s'ils sont intéressés. Une petite résolution pourra être utilisée dans un mag en pas trop gros, pas en grand format. avec en bonus mon nom dans un coin pas trop visible, s'ils veulent le couper ça limitera encore la taille de la photo.
J'ai pas mal hésité à chercher d'autres formules moins chères, mais juste chiant à mettre en oeuvre, entre le transfert des photos pas forcément pratique, et si je devais le faire à partir des photos d'origine, ça me prendrait des plombes, vu que côté disque dur, j'ai juste trié par date, pas profité du catalogage Lightroom pour l'instant, ça fait pas longtemps que je connais cette possibilité (et vu le prix de Lightroom & co, je me tâte aussi pour changer d'outil).

Pour revenir au sujet de base, il y a tellement de solutions pour les pros et moins pros maintenant, que Flickr a pas mal de concurrents. Autour de moi, j'en vois pas mal sur les autres type instagram, et certains se créent même des sites photos personnalisés. Il y a eu une période pour 500px, je ne sais pas trop si ça marche encore.

[oeufmollet]

Et une augmentation de tarif, une !

(possibilité de prolonger dès maintenant pour un an à l'ancien tarif)