Flickr has one really useful feature that I've used a lot: easy searching for public domain imagery. It's great that you can dial in whichever level of CC licensing you want and then grab some photos for marketing or wireframing. Also handy for machine learning!

I generally like flickr and have been a "pro" paid user for a long time. This seems like a likely positive step as an uploader. That said. I also use flickr a lot as a CC/PD source for presentations. My expectation is that there will be changes that make this sort of thing decline or disappear.

Agreed. I’ve had some of my CC photos used, with attribution, by company websites and blogs. And been notified politely as to their use. I’m sure some have been used without my knowledge, but I’m ok with that. I’ve also been a pro subscriber since 2008. And even though Flickr has been languishing on simmer since, well, its inception, I keep my pro sub active, and upload new content (although not at the feverish pace of T Hawk!) :-O Smug: looking forward to Flickr's future.

"It's great that you can dial in whichever level of CC licensing you want and then grab some photos for marketing or wireframing."

A friend used a site that had those sorts of free use licenses, and then got hit by the Getty lawyers: It turned out that someone was just taking stock images and posting them on their own account with a gratis license, which of course does nothing to excuse the people trusting it in faith.

Not sure how to solve that problem.

I just used Flickr this last month after a LONG hiatus for a new reason. Wanted a site to make a shareable link to otherwise private photos for friends and family to see our in-progress trip. I hate Facebook and would be a hypocrite to post the pics to Instagram.

Worked really well to upload photos from phone to a private repo. Captions, and a link in the SHARE TO camera library.

Not everyone wants a travel blog. Current Flickr worked well.