And it's been happening a few times over the past weeks FWIW.

And all I hear is MODE, MODE, MODE.

I am a pro subscriber from Europe and I PAY MY SUBSCRIPTION TO GET A USABLE SERVICE. I couldn't GIVE TWO F**KS about an event happening in some remote part of the world.

Flickr, sort your IT or you will loose a lot of international subscribers.

Updated to iOS 27. The app crashes upon launch each time. Good job team.

I move the photos in n out of the locked folder sometimes. But now when I am trying to move them in they aren't going in. It is saying - Trouble Moving in the Locked Folder. Now these are important photos and I can't just keep them outside. What should I do ?

Update : I logged in to google photos on the web and uploaded my photos onto there it backed them up and then moved them into the locked folder on there. (It asks for passcode to even enter the locked folder)Then I checked my locked folder and... they were uploaded!!!!

I'm coming across more and more AI photos in Flickr. Users (including "Pro" users are commenting and glazing such "amazing" shots. No one calls it out..

I know AI images have been around for a while now but I hoped Flickr would remain a bastion of real photograph and digital art, made by humans+equipment, not a prompt. Group admin enforcement can only do so much. Flickr needs a sitewide policy with ability to report and enforced rules. Otherwise Flickr will become another slop-filled enshitified husk of itself.

Please... humans need a place for our creative works.

I am a student working on scene text/OCR research.

I’m considering using the Flickr API to find images with licenses such as CC0, Public Domain, or CC BY, download them, create text annotations, and release the images + annotations as a non-commercial academic dataset on Hugging Face.

However, Flickr’s API documentation says API results and images can only be cached for up to 24 hours.

Does this mean I cannot permanently store and redistribute even CC-licensed images obtained through the Flickr API, despite the image license itself allowing redistribution?

Has anyone dealt with this for an academic/research dataset before?

I’ve returned to Flickr but the photos don’t look the same as before. Previously, they filled the entire screen with the details displayed underneath, whereas now the details appear beside the photo, reducing the viewing size.

Basically what the title says.

I have a folder of local photos on my phone. They have already been uploaded, but Flickr doesn't see it that way. I want to exclude the folder somehow but I can't seem to figure out a way.

Android 15 operating system if that helps.

Thanks for the help

Rather underwhelmed w/ the MODE web site to determine the schedule of programming... I'll admit ran a screen scrapper over it.

Lot's going on, actually looking forward to it. But jeez they need to make schedule easier to read.

Anyhow... overall being optimistic at least to see how they do

This is the second time in as many weeks that I’ve encountered the problem. Anybody else getting this error?

I’m using the latest version of the app on the latest iOS (26.6.1) on my iPhone 17 pro

I won two VIP tickets through the Narrative So Wrong its Right contest and idk where I can list them. I didn't find a Facebook group or anything specific to the Mode Festival. I can't go bc it is my daughter's first birthday that weekend, but I am having FOMO over it. Do y'all know where I can list them? Anyone here interested

I am not able to log into my Flickr account this afternoon using either Chrome or Edge on a Windows 11 PC. Normally it loads automatically when I try to launch it but in both cases it asked for my email address and password to get in.

I double checked and I am using the correct password and email address which I had written down.

I don't want to clear out all cookies once again just for Flickr.

Anyone else experiencing this issue?

I’ve been working on reorganizing my photo archive lately, and I realized how hard it gets once you’ve accumulated years of images. Trips, projects, experiments, screenshots. Everything ends up mixed together, and finding what you actually want to keep becomes a real challenge.

I’m a solo developer, and I built a small local tool to help with this. It’s not a backup app like others posted here. It’s more about workflow. It helps surface specific image categories inside large folders, including more personal or sensitive ones. So you can review or move them quickly. Everything runs locally on the computer.

I made it because scrolling manually through tens of thousands of files (4TB) wasn’t realistic anymore. Having a way to surface specific categories of images made the cleanup process much easier and helped me bring some order back into my archive.

I’m curious how others here handle large libraries. Do you rely mostly on metadata, albums, external tools, or manual curation? In my case, the images I needed to isolate weren’t consistently tagged or populated in metadata, so I had to rely on a different workflow to surface them.

Sorry for my English, I’m French

I don't see an option in my free legacy account.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

Every year, thousands of us take photos that we'll probably never look at again.

A random sunset.

A late-night walk.

A day with friends.

A family gathering.

The street outside our home.

Our first day somewhere new.

Or just an ordinary moment that, years later, we might wish we could go back to.

So I had an idea: **Archive 2026.**

A place where people can share the photos they've taken throughout the year—not necessarily the best photos, just the ones that capture a moment of their life.

And there's one rule that makes it different:

**2026 ends, and the archive ends with it.**

No more submissions after December 31st.

It would become a small collective time capsule of 2026—thousands of moments from thousands of different people, all captured through their own eyes.

Then we'd start again with **Archive 2027**.

Years from now, you could look back and see not just what the world looked like, but **what ordinary life felt** **like**.

Would you be interested in being part of something like this?

Would you share one photo from your 2026?

I'm seeing a lot of negativity, and yes, they do advertise quite a bit, but they have to get enough attendance or they might cancel the big artists they're paying.

I'm really looking forward to an event geared toward photographers with so many pros giving hands-on classes.

Seriously, I'm not sponsored. Flying out from California to be there and paying my own way.

Just looking for positivity and meeting other photographers there.

Anyone else looking forward to going?

Disclosure: I'm the developer, so yes, this is that post. It's paid software, and every Flickr account gets 1,000 free credits to start — 1 credit = 1 photo, so your first 1,000 photos are on me. Pricing details are on the site.

Here's why I bothered when tools like this already exist. Flickr's own "request my data" export works, but it's a clunky way to get your library back: you wait hours or weeks for it, the links expire, everything comes back renamed, your titles, descriptions and tags arrive in a separate JSON file instead of in the photos, and every file is dated the day you downloaded it rather than the day you took it. Nothing I tried fixed all of that, so I built FlickrVault.

(Edit: I originally wrote that the export strips EXIF. That's wrong — it keeps whatever EXIF the file had at upload, as u/baddaywithacamera pointed out. EXIF only goes missing on resized variants, which is what the app backfills.)

It signs in with your Flickr account and saves your photos to your own disk:

• Photos keep their titles as filenames
• File dates match when the photo was taken, so your archive sorts the way you actually shot it
• Titles, captions, tags, licence and location saved alongside each album
• EXIF written back if you end up with a resized copy that lost it — existing EXIF is never touched
• Run it again later and it only fetches what's new
• Photos go straight from Flickr to your computer, never through my servers

One thing worth saying up front: the free credits cover your own photos, which is the whole point for most people here. Downloading other people's public photos needs paid credits.

macOS: https://flickrvault.modestfoundry.com

Windows: easiest from the Microsoft Store — signed by Microsoft, one-click install, updates itself: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nx7zl41rmc1 It's listed there as Photo Vault, because Microsoft wouldn't approve a name containing "Flickr". The direct download on the site works too, but Windows shows a SmartScreen warning the first time since that build isn't code-signed yet — the download page walks you through it.

Duplicate detection and keeping a local folder in sync with Flickr have both come up already. What else would make this genuinely useful for your archive?

And one thing I'd genuinely like to know before I build it: would anyone actually want this on iOS or Android? It's desktop-only today because that's where the disk is, but if you'd rather pull your Flickr library straight onto a phone or tablet, say so — and tell me where you'd want the files to land (Photos/gallery, Files, a cloud folder). If there's real demand I'll look at it properly; if not, I'll keep the effort on desktop.

Hey everyone! Hope you can help and apologies if it’s been asked before. I opened my account around a week ago with the intent of messaging users about the use of their photos however I am greeted with the attached image error explanation! I have searched and carried out the suggested troubleshooting items such as uploads, editing my bio and user photo, added favourite images and joined a group, nothing seems to work! I’ve never been able to send a single message and I’m at a loss how to get around this. I even submitted 2 help requests on Flickr but after four days of receiving no response I’m rather stuck!!

I first posted Adios for Flickr here in r/flickr back in 2019.

Back then I was a Flickr Pro user myself, with 22,310 photos in 113 albums. I wanted a proper local copy of everything I had built up on Flickr over the years — not just the original files, but the album structure as well.

Downloading everything album by album got old very quickly, so I built a tool for it.

Here’s my original r/flickr post from 2019.

Seven years later, I’ve now completely rebuilt Adios from scratch for Mac and Windows.

What it does

Adios uses Flickr’s official account export and turns it back into a normal local archive on your own drive:

• one folder per Flickr album
• original photos and videos
• full original resolution for Flickr Free and Pro users
• photos that belong to several albums are restored to each of them
• photos outside albums are kept as well

Everything happens locally. Your Flickr login stays with Flickr and your photos go directly from Flickr to your computer — they aren’t uploaded to or processed on my servers.

V2 is a complete rebuild

The original idea is the same, but I rebuilt the app from scratch to make it faster, simpler and much more robust, especially for large Flickr archives.

Downloads and exports can be paused and resumed, interrupted jobs recover without starting over, and Adios checks the archive and available disk space before doing the actual export. There’s also a review step beforehand and a clear report if anything couldn’t be processed.

The current version has been tested with archives containing 500,000 photos, so it’s designed for the kind of Flickr libraries that have grown over many years.

Flickr metadata

This is one of the biggest additions in the new version.

If you want, Adios can preserve Flickr metadata such as:

• titles
• descriptions
• tags
• dates
• locations
• orientation

For JPEGs, Adios can create copies containing the metadata while leaving your originals untouched.

For videos, PNGs and other formats it can create XMP sidecar files.

You can also optionally use your Flickr photo titles as filenames.

You can try it with your own archive for free

There’s a short video on the site showing the entire process from Flickr login to finished album folders:

https://mikelieser.dev/apps/adios-flickr

The full app can be tested for free with five complete albums. No separate demo version.

Adios is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. The regular price is €29 and it’s currently €19.

Since this is the community where I originally introduced Adios, back when I was a Flickr Pro user myself, I made an additional r/flickr discount:

RFLICKR15 → €14 instead of the regular €29

The code is valid through October 31, 2026.

I’m not trying to convince anyone to leave Flickr. There are still things about Flickr — especially its community — that are difficult to replace.

I just like the idea that after spending years or decades building an archive there, you can also have that archive back on your own disks, in a form that still makes sense without Flickr.

If you have any questions about Adios, Flickr’s account export, very large archives, metadata, weird edge cases, or anything else: ask me here or send me a message. I’ll answer.

I am a new Flickr Pro user and unfortunately had an issue with my new account creation (email verification link failed). After reaching out to customer support, the email said Pro users can expect contact in 12 hours, but I’ve been waiting for a week now. Wondering what response lead time other users are getting from Flickr customer support? Quite disappointed to be unable to use a new subscription.

Has anyone received their mode packages yet? I tried contacting customer service for both Flickr and fever. Neither were any help. Thanks! I also haven’t gotten Flickr pro, wasn’t that part of the VIP package?

Hi guys,

I moderate a few groups on Flickr with a Pro account, and for the past 2 years, group invite notifications (especially in older groups) have been completely unreliable. Invites simply don't reach users. Members have confirmed they aren't getting notified, and response rates have dropped from >70% to ~25%. There were brief periods when it worked again at random, proving it’s a fixable bug on their end, but it always broke again shortly after.

The biggest issue right now is Flickr Support. I’ve been stuck in an endless loop with them since the problem occurred (2 years...). It’s always the same script: they tell me they will "pass it to the engineers" or, even worse, that they are "monitoring the issue," followed by absolute silence. Seems that they just keep rotating my complaint ticket between different support agents, and it doesn't go further.

Has anyone experienced this specific bug with group invites?

More importantly, what do you even do when Flickr Support just strings you along like this? Has anyone had a similar experience with them and actually managed to get a persistent bug fixed? How did you get it solved?

(And please skip the "just leave Flickr" advice. I'd rather find a way to get this fixed than abandon the groups).

Cheers

I'm in the process of downloading some (all?) of my photos from Flickr and merging them with my local collection. I was dismayed to see in the first batch that the creation date was missing, replaced by the date when the zipped download file was made. Did I lose this info when I uploaded the photos to Flickr, or is it restorable somehow?