Here's the blog post on this:<p><a href="https://blog.flickr.net/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-accounts-1000-photos/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.flickr.net/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-acco...</a><p>At first glance it seemed like a way to bring in more money, but the points they bring up actually seem fairly reasonable.<p>The rough tl;dr is:<p>1. Giving a free terabyte to every user brought in lower-quality content as people came just for free storage, hurting Flickr's mission of being a site for quality content by photographers / artists<p>2. Subscriptions help them make money from the product instead of the users (I don't really buy this one, they don't have any reason to stop selling user data just because of this change)<p>3. They want to remind people that file storage costs them a fair chunk of money to keep running, and it's not something that's magically free