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Flickr seems to need more paying members to survive. Last year, don McAskie, SmugMug's chief executive, asked users for help. Last year, the company bought a photo repository from Verizon's Yahoo! He wrote in another email to free and professional members. Flickr is the most popular loss-making company in the world and needs your help. "

When Flickr began limiting free users to 1000 photos and videos earlier this year, it first showed signs of trouble, perhaps to turn them into paying users. At present, MacAskill has taken a more direct approach, requiring free users to sign up for paid subscriptions. He also asked current Pro users to promote the word to persuade more people to pay for their members.

In his letter, he explained that Flickr needs a lot of money to operate and the company cannot continue to operate at a loss. MacAskill lists what SmugMug has done for the service, including migrating to Amazon Web Services to reduce photo loading time. When Flickr costs less than $1 a week to "secure their priceless photos", he even tells users that he is willing to pay $9 a month for services such as Netflix.

Flickr will launch the Pro subscription campaign on December 26th, but because it encourages as many people as possible to sign up, it now gives interested people a 25 per cent discount. They only need to register through a special portal and use code 25 in 2019.

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