But Flickr is not shut down. Now SmugMug at lest try to convince the service will continue and keep on allowing for example free accounts.

at the very moment.

Smugmug is a family owned company, so far no venture capitalist is involved. That means they had to finance the takeover from own resources and have to cover the running costs as well.
Smugmug uses AWS (or at least used in former times). Flickr has it's own servers but has been in the red for years. As far as I know Yahoo never reached a break even with flickr.

From my point of view they will have to earn money soon. Either by charging the users or by selling users' content (as yahoo already did), merchandising users' data and cutting down services.

Why might smugmug be interested in flickr? They do have a good, running site, focused on professional photgraphers. Why buying a consumer site? For sure not on account of the good pictures. I think they are interested in a social community. But why? I am really curious how they will try to get money out of flickr.....

Göttlicher:))))))))

brav so ;-))))))))

Now I understand the Flickr situation better. That makes me consider closing my rather unused Flick account, or at least remove my few pictures there, and leave only few to say I have moved to ipernity ;-)

Das war auch mein Gedanke....

I haven't been on Flickr for months... The few photos I have left are private and can only be seen in SSC. We have got until nearly end of May to decide whether to close our accounts or let us be moved to Smugmug. I'm still undecided...

I will keep my account - just to see what will happen ;-)

siehe oben ;-)
aktiv mache ich da eh nix mehr, es ist halt noch da.....