Flickr extends its deletion deadline to March after user outcry
Last year, Flickr announced a new pricing plan: users would have to pay $50 for a Pro membership, or be limited to 1,000 images. Those users who opted not to pay and who were over the limit would have those additional images deleted by February 5th. Those users will have a bit more time: USA Today reports that Flickr is now saying it has extended the deletion deadline until March 12th.
Last year, rival site SmugMug acquired Flickr from Yahoo, saying it would leave it as a standalone community, and that it would get a bit more attention than Verizon / Oath gave it. The first big changes came back in November, when Flickr unveiled its new membership model: users would have until January 8th to upgrade to a $50 Pro account, and at that...