https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/20/smugmug-buys-flickr-verizon-oath/537377002/
Flickr was recently acquired Flickr from Verizon (who now "owns" Yahoo). There seems to be confusion as to what this means to users who have accounts on Flickr. According to the USAToday article SmugMug CEO Don MacAskil hasn't made any decisions (at the time the article was published). According to the FAQs published on the SmugMug website nothing significant is changing for Flickr users and both will remain separate. Free accounts will still be free, SmugMug does not have free accounts. However an email posted by someone on another forum supposedly from Flickr states that all Flickr accounts (photos, videos and all) will be migrated automatically to Smugmug. If you don't want to migrate to SmugMug you have until May 25, 2018 to delete your Flickr account. So far no one else seems to have received this email, or at least I haven't.
We will just have to wait and see how things play out but be prepared for possibly losing your Flickr accounts.
Flickr was recently acquired Flickr from Verizon (who now "owns" Yahoo). There seems to be confusion as to what this means to users who have accounts on Flickr. According to the USAToday article SmugMug CEO Don MacAskil hasn't made any decisions (at the time the article was published). According to the FAQs published on the SmugMug website nothing significant is changing for Flickr users and both will remain separate. Free accounts will still be free, SmugMug does not have free accounts. However an email posted by someone on another forum supposedly from Flickr states that all Flickr accounts (photos, videos and all) will be migrated automatically to Smugmug. If you don't want to migrate to SmugMug you have until May 25, 2018 to delete your Flickr account. So far no one else seems to have received this email, or at least I haven't.
We will just have to wait and see how things play out but be prepared for possibly losing your Flickr accounts.