

(You might call it NSFW, or explicit, or other terms, but we’ve gone ahead and defined them for Flickr here. The first change relates to restricted and moderate content. These changes fall into two distinct buckets, and will affect Flickr free members. Today we’re announcing some upcoming changes to our Terms of Service that will help us continue to preserve the art, expression, history, stories, and memories of all Flickr members for the next hundred years. So we joined forces with SmugMug, and we’re all the stronger for it.


When Flickr was acquired by SmugMug in 2018, it was a mission of preservation: our tens of billions of photos, hundreds of millions of photographers, and millions of thriving communities were coming dangerously close to not existing online, and that was unacceptable.
