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.

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 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.

I spent the first few years of my cyber life wandering looking for something that satisfied my creative itch in photography. Most sites in 2004 were pretty vanilla. The content being fairly predictable tropes. Being a virtual newbie to the online space I didn't connect much anywhere. Then flickr came along. I promptly paid for the pro level account and never looked back. Here I am 16 years later still forking out my annual subscription. Except now I use it to also backup all my jpegs too. It is my home away from home and the place I spend most of my online existence. Admittedly the 'community' got the life sucked out of it by Facebook and then instagram but hey I like hanging around in there and the images I ave backed up are tucked away and I'm not fed ads or do they use my data in a way that offends me.

I think I first saw this website around 10 years ago, at that time it had a different layout and It had a contest also.
Now the changed the website and there is no challenge or contest which so bad i think, also recently very few activity at there.
But still I like that site.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Even though I needed Flickr as a photography enthusiast; I boycotted Flickr yesterday. So why is Flickr bad?

1. SafeSearch is a joke. You will run through a lot of inappropriate images. It is not safe for children under any circumstances. Hence, you cannot use it with comfort if your children are around. Another issue is the flagging button. You cannot flag a photo for review unless you open it. What a terrible design? Having to load inappropriate images in order to "flag" them?

2. Customer service are negative and neglect their own guidelines. I reported a group that was mocking a particular religious group which is against Flickr's guidelines. Guess what? The group is still there, the customer service response was awful.

3. The search function is primitive and doesn't suit photographers AT ALL. The mobile version is even worse. Searching groups is a pain. Is that a website meant for photography?

4. Search results load in a single large page overloading your computer and browser. Again, terrible design.

In short? A painful experience.