r/VirginVoyages, you did it again. Eighth cruise as #RockStars on Brilliant Lady’s Alaska: Inside Passage & Glacial Fjords, and those seven nights warped by faster than the Enterprise racing to a tribble convention with an open bar.

Seattle at 5 p.m., a full day threading the Inside Passage, Ketchikan, Sitka, Tracy Arm Fjord (the glaciers calved like they had a personal beef with the ship), Prince Rupert, one more sea day, back to Seattle. No kids, no formal night, no “that’ll be extra,” just glaciers, Gunbae, and the quiet fear that a tribble made it into the extra-virgin olive oil. Already plotting the ninth.

And as always, uploaded my journey to r/flickr, the keeper of all our memories!

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?

Basically, the title.

Last week, I suddenly wasn't able to log into my account, and discovered that accessing its URL directly resulted in the error “410. This is not the page you’re looking for.” I contacted support and was told that my account had been banned for spam activity, with no way to appeal or even find out what specific activity was considered spam (see the screenshots).

Needless to say, I did not do any of the spam-related actions listed in the community guidelines. I had around 200 photos on the account, all taken by myself, nothing commercial. They were tagged appropriately, and only some were added to groups, also in appropriate ways and numbers. I did no messaging and almost no commenting either.

So I'm wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation and managed to fight it, or at least figured out what the hell can get you banned. I really enjoyed using the website, but I'm now reluctant to create a new account if it can just get banned for God knows what, with no way to appeal, and I'll have to start all over again.

UPD (26/08): After some yelling and a request for an additional manual review of the supposed spam activity, the account was restored and apologies were received! Thank you Flickr for that. I’ll keep the post here just in case someone else encounters the same problem later.

Flickr must have decided to drive us all crazy with this popup that appears after every three photos we view. Do they really think anyone is going to subscribe to a paid plan just to preserve their sanity? Has anyone managed to disable it? I’m on macOS, using Mozilla 154.0 with AdGuard AdBlocker.

Hey! So I recently won a photography contest on flickr, which was exciting. They ran the contest as part of a lead-up to this big international photography festival called MODE they're having at the end of September in Minneapolis. Since this is flickr reddit, I'm sure many of you already know! It's supposed to be really cool, but I live a bit too far away to make it. For winning the contest, they sent me a bunch of swag including a free VIP pass to the festival (normally $380), which I would hate to to go waste if someone else would want to attend. It's against the rules to sell pass, but apparently it can be transferred to someone else. I'm curious if anyone is interested in going/using it? If so, you'd need to be comfortable letting me know your name so I can have the pass transferred to you, and I'd need to be able to mail you the physical pass somehow. PLEASE no one post any personal info in the comments-- just let me know if you're positive you'd be able to make it and you'd like the pass! I have no idea how transferring it actually works, I only know it's possible because read the guidelines about what I can do with it, so you'll have to bear with me as I figure it out. I'm attaching a photo to show I'm being honest about what I received, but I'm gonna keep most of my goodies, I'll send someone the pass and the festival info leaflet :) I'm gonna give this a week or so, then I'll choose someone to give the pass to.

This is for others to see that people would like to do something to correct this huge hole. Whether Flickr will even bother to answer, or two provide the APIs, who knows. Putting this here for the record. I sent this to Flickr Support as it is the only place I could find to send it on Flickr iteself.

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I have a preamble with what I'd like to do, and three VERY important questions that will determine if this is even possible.

Hello, as an FYI before I start: I have a paid subscription. FYI (email [xxxxxxx@gmail.com](mailto:xxxxxxx@gmail.com))

• I want to create an app to help automate moderation of groups
• The idea arose when I considered creating a new group and realized how (I can’t say it any nicer) how dog shit the existing moderator tools are. 
  • I don’t want to spend unneeded time doing something that should be able to be properly automated or at least enough to save time
• I checked online (e.g. Reddit Flickr subreddit and other places)
  • It is universally acknowledged that Flickr moderator tools are horrible and horribly outdated
• I decided if I was going to create any groups I needed to build this tool
  • And if I built it, why wouldn’t I allow others to use it to, for a fee
    • After all, the app will take up my time
    • And also bandwidth and data storage which costs money
• It looks like to do this I need a commercial API
  • Users would log in via Flickr OAuth (not via the app… which should just get the session token and hopefully what permissions they have)
  • Any operations would be based on what roles/permissions the user have in Flickr (i.e. a regular user will not be able to do any moderation on a group that they are not part of the admin/moderator team)

However, before I even decide to go further I need three key questions answered or there is no point going any further with design, which is need to answer you questions. Please allow someone who works on the API team to respond. 

I won’t ask more unless I can get THREE positive answerS here (a moderator app is completely impossible without these): 

1. Is there an API method that can be used to retrieve photo information for photos in pending state in a group pool?
   1. Only useable for people with appropriate moderator or admin privileges 
2. Is there an API method that can be used to accept or deny photos in pending state based on moderator decision?
   1. Only useable for people with appropriate moderator or admin privileges 
3. Is there an API method that can be used to ban someone from posting to a group
   1. Only useable for people with appropriate moderator or admin privileges 

I absolutely know you have private APIs to do this, there can’t be any denying it otherwise moderators would not be able to do this in Flickr. The question is whether there are public APIs to do the same, or are these hidden but available? 

I would like to build something that will make people happier to work and pay for Flickr. 

I will also post this on Flickr Reddit subreddit, so people can see that I am asking and see your answers in case they would like to know about possible moderator apps.

Regards

xxxx

New app is showing but cautious to update after the recent update debacle. Has any other brave person updated to the new version? If yes, any feedback?

I’m totally new to Flickr and I set up my account and then uploaded a photo that I’m trying to enter in the WPD contest.

The photo looks like it’s in my Photostream and I’ve applied tags. When I go to the WPD group page I hit the button to enter the photo and I’m taken to a screen that says I have no photos but if I go back to my profile the photo is there.

What am I missing?

Thanks

I'd like to open Flickr in my browser, just like I always have, but for about a week now, this page has been showing up instead. It's happened temporarily before, but now I'm starting to wonder if there might be a problem on my end?

My mobile app isn't working either. Is there something going on that I'm not aware of?

Posting this here because I haven't received a response yet from Flickr support. I tried sharing an album directly from the new app (Android), but the recipients could not access the album (they got various error messages). But when I tried it again from the website, the link worked. So the web link sharing function for albums is not working on the new app. Hope it gets resolved soon. Thanks.

Hey yall, I apologize in advance for the question, but Im kinda new to this whole "uploading my photos online" thing. I started uploading them on Instagram, but I wanted to have an option for people who want to see the photos without the instagram compression, so I found out about Flickr and uploaded some photos there.

To my suprise, when I looked at my photo, the resolution was not as good as my original file. I mainly post astrophotography, so zooming into the photo is kinda important. I mean the resolution for my last image for example was 12028x7168 (weird number due to crop). So is Flickr still my best bet in that case, or is there some other site that allows this? Or maybe even help me understand why its that way. Either one of those would be gladly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

I will start by saying I do like Flickr and have been on here for almost 20 years. With that said, I feel it is getting overwhelmingly expensive for what I use it for. I mainly like to have online backup and albums to share with family. Has anyone found an alternative that is an easy migration where I can keep my albums? I have heard you can build download but I have also seen mixed reviews and I have been having trouble figuring out how to get that sorted.

Please let me know if anyone has an opinion.

What a mess the app release was!! Has Flickr bounced back, or is the damage continuing?

What the hell is going on with the updated app? It's complete dogshit and it's been out for weeks and still hasn't fixed this basic issue. Not sure I'm going to be continuing my Flickr pro subscription.

Is the app not letting anyone else download images? I keep getting an error that says "We couldn't save this photo right now. Please try again later."

hey Everyone

since last update on Android App, things got crazy. Normally, I would use the "auto-Uploadr" to just backup my phone camera photos.Simple.

After their latest update and, rolling back to older version, it stopped being able to just upload the specific folder. Is either ALL MEDIA or need to select MAX 100 media to upload.

Am I the only one facing this issue?

Moment I allow all to be uploaded, the counter doesn't stop growing...

I am a flickr pro user since about 6-7 years. I have all my (personal) pictures stored on their cloud and last week my problems started.

After the upgrade to the new app I had to login again and auto-uploader all of a sudden started to upload all my whatsapp pictures as well. I didn't want to disable it cause I rely on it as a backup for my regular pictures. So I started removing all the whatsapp pictures uploaded bit by bit. The next day when all pictures were uploaded it did not let me delete any pictures any more. I wrote support, now over a week ago, still no answer.

Then it got worse, 2 days ago, all of a sudden I can not login anymore. Trying to reset the password gives me "email does not exist". Opened another support ticket, still nothing. This is really frustrating. Has anyone experienced something similar lately ??

Thank you.

As the title says. I find this particularly egregious and hilarious as my current pro subscription is good through the end of the years.

I pay per year (sometimes in the past buying years of Pro at a time) and this is the first time Flickr has wanted current payment info in the middle of a subscription. Has this happened to anyone else?

Flickr is promoting its "World Photography Day 2026" with a contest and prizes!!!

Great idea!

What are the prizes???

This year’s category winners will each win a MODE Box that includes a VIP Pass to MODE, a brand new, unique photography festival that is taking place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 18th – 20th.

Oh joy! As a European I'd have to say, thanks but no thanks.....as I suspect would many others who live outside the USA. Oh....and I see the winners won't be announced until August 19th....which (even if I wanted to go) leaves me a short time to arrange flights, accommodation etc.

Any alternative prizes?

Winner’s will also take home a year of Flickr Pro

Uhhhh......I'm already paying this

Anything else?

Errrrrr........nope.

So "World Photography Day" is a bit like the World Series then????

As I said.....underwhelming