Flickr Reviews 275

The site is a piece of trash. It has only gotten worse! Their sole motivation for such bad customer service is greed! Over 20 years ago a free account gave you plenty of space and latitude. There was a huge adult community and we were all friends and having fun. We did not have to pay for accounts unless we wanted to.
Suddenly, they took the free accounts away and started treating adult images as though they were criminal and forbidden. That was unless you paid these greedy, horrible people.
Now they are literally monitoring the data information on your photograph for non-adult images and investigating if they are yours or not!!!! this big brother spying at its worst! Who are they check out and tell you which images are yours or not!!! so many times you alter the pictures and it’s none of their business! I hope they go out of business permanently! CEO belongs in prison! he is a disgusting person!

IGNORANT ARROGANT COMPANY THAT LOCKS YOU OUT! DOES NOT REPLY TO EMAIL ON HELP PAGE!
DOES NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANYONE !!!

I had been a member since 2017. I purchased several Pro accounts for other members as gifts during this time period. Finally, I decided to purchase a Pro account for myself and that’s when all of the issues began to happened for me. Last year, I became so frustrated with the lack of help that I deleted my account. After a few months and much encouragement, I asked that my account be reinstated in which it was. All of my privacy settings were set to stay hidden. Yet all of the issues I had prior to the reinstatement still existed. Contacts disappeared, posted photos disappeared, countless times I would try to log into my account and I would receive a notification my account did not exist. All of my privacy settings were set to prevent my work from being exposed to outside web browsers as well as the inside the Flickr web browsers did not work. I contacted them about the issues and the explanation I received was it was always a bug that they were working on it but the issues were never resolved. I had over 4.4 million views and Flickr.com just would not make right their wrongs with my account. My years and the money I spent meant nothing to them. So, I deleted my account for the last time. It is a huge disappointment and I am saddened by my personal experience with the platform. My hopes for others are they do not experience what I have and if you have experienced what I have just know you’re not alone.

Ffs stop asking for data/cookie permission when logging in on mobile. Your site is a pain in the arse. Pages and pages of crap sites you want to share my data with. The answer is NO.

What a anoying site man, every 3 pics I get an ad or have to wait, I have to pay to piecefully scroll through an album nowadays ? come on.

TAKING THE WEEWEE!
PAY TO REMOVE ADVERTS AND SAVE THE PLANET ?
BUNCH OF THIEVING CLOWNS

Impossible to log on with 100s of cookie and advertising settings in the way. Tried many times and now I've given up. Appears that the site wants to collect all your data and won't let you log in until you give permission for everything. Plenty of other free sites that are far better than flickr.

New requirement to have a pro account to view mature account is greedy. I've been a member for 20 years and don't think I'll use Flickr any more.

Pretty useless really. If its not crashing / locking up there are adverts popping up all the time.

Used to enjoy Flickr, but the rules have changed. It's blackmail if I want to see all my German friends' photos need a pro account.

Honestly the worst photo share website on the planet
1 issues with photos being not allowed under their rules
2 continuously getting UI our account deleted
Loosing all your photos - without explanation
3 massive cost 20 usd per month
4 this company will go bust us they don’t
Understand their customers
5 recently got hacked with all your details
Now being used on the dark web
Go elsewhere my advise

They bombard you with advertising. Women's lingerie?? Sado Mascist underwear? Then they expect you to "go pro" and give them a donation! They'll be making loads on their adverts. You name it they advertise it. "Go pro"? No thanks.

Slow, tedious, outdated. It’s like using a website from 1990. The map function is not any better than when Yahoo owned Flickr many years ago. Customer help only directs you to the useless help pages. The good thing is it sometimes works well but not often enough. Been a customer since 2010 and probably will not renew.

Sad to see so many poor reviews and I have to say some look dubious.
I had all sorts of problems with PhotoBucket, so I switched to Flickr almost a decade ago and have barely looked back. Can hardly remember a major problem with the Flickr site. I admit I did initially push back at paying the fee for the Pro Version when they restricted the storage on the free version, but to be honest it's a fair price for what it gives me.
I can access my pictures anywhere in the world, like carrying all my photo albums on the phone.
The management of photos is excellent. You only have to upload a picture once, but I particularly like being able to have the same photo in several albums, and then those albums can be in more than one collection.
So for example, I can have an album for a ski trip and that album can be in the collection for the year and also in another collection for all ski trips. I happen to have an album of pictures of sunsets, sunrises and pretty skies, so a sunset picture taken on a ski trip can also be viewed in that album.

after cancel the pro account flickr freeze me out creating issues to lock the account.
It's a method pushing free member to a pro account and only spending money member get treated with a proper support.
I was on flickr to share my creative work over years since it get expensive now.
I'm not support this money-grubbing provider anymore.

I went to 500px, better and competent.

I've been on Flickr for over a decade, since the golden days when it was genuinely the best place for serious artists. A part of me will always love what it used to be: the incredible community of film photographers from around the world sharing great work as well as the discussions, the groups, the sense of discovery. That Flickr felt special.

But today's Flickr? It's actively repelling everyone with an endless stream of anti-user nonsense. They make the site unfriendly to ad blockers (good luck browsing without constant interruptions or broken functionality unless you pay up), they've gutted the free version even further with ridiculous restrictions that make it barely usable for anyone who isn't shelling out for Pro, they've ramped up heavy-handed censorship and content moderation that feels arbitrary and punishing and, worst of all, they've started banning or suspending accounts for mutual exchange of messages on what is supposed to be a social platform.

It's turned into a complete shit show and circus. The platform that once celebrated photography now seems designed to frustrate and nickel-and-dime its longtime users while driving away new ones.

The support team is atrociously horrible (the absolute worst I've dealt with on any similar or competing platform). You will wait 2–3 days for a canned, copy-paste response that rarely actually solves anything. No real help, no accountability, just robotic deflection.

I still have some attachment to the old Flickr that lives in my memories, but the current reality is unacceptable.

Ownership and team: thanks for ruining something that once was great. Sincerely, the photography community.

Flickr is good for showing photos to other people and there can be a nice community feeling among photographers !
But there are many technical issues like the search engine not showing many photos or even not finding photos or people ( even when entering everything absolutely correctly) ! And many internet search engines like Opera are not very well supported and that can cause issues ( for example the bell symbol showing someone left a comment on your photo however the comment is not visible). Even with Google, which Flickr said is fully supported, these problems persist.
And theses issues happen even with a Pro account.
All this makes Flickr far less enjoyable now compared to a few years ago !!

Do not use Flickr. It is a scam. It is a literal legal trap. They have partnered with an enforcement agency that ruthlessly pursues anyone who makes the slightest technical breach of their usage terms. Beware!

I've been using Flickr since 2006. I've been a PRO member for a long time - however, when I look at my history payment back in 2015 - when I was paying $44.95 (roughly £32) for a 2 year.

In Apr 2025 it cost a whopping £111.84 - so 3.2 times more expensive. An absurd rise. But not only that, Flickr quality has declined over the years. I haven't gotten anything worth the insane subscription price increase. Servers are slow and glitchy and the public forums have all been disabled. I can't post new questions nor can I reply to old threads, they all seem to be have been locked.

SO FLICKR USERS ARE BEING SILENCED. We can't interact inside the platform anymore. Funny as the prices increased that feature was disabled. Because all the loyal longer term users were pissed off at how they were treating us.

To add insult to injury I have just seen that new users get charged £99 for 2 year subscription but my is going up to £124?!?!??!?!?!? That's a 287.5% price increase. Absolutely shameful.

Shame on you, Flickr management. You greedy people. You don't care about usability or user satisfaction.

Disgusting service