I have a Flickr account, which I use for another side of my photography hobby. I was thinking about whether to start sharing images of other themes when they dropped the changes in T's&C's. It has stopped me in my tracks somewhat.
I have about 6000 images on there, all edited, so using around 1% of the allocated TB storage. If this was about reducing the storage given to free accounts the restriction would be applied to the amount of storage an account uses, not the number of images. So, the dishonesty riles me a little.
I can see that the business model they had was unsustainable, and they've been acquired, but this is a very cack handed way of doing it.
Ironically, I took the plunge and joined Flickr after years of using Photobucket, when they did a very similar thing. Tellingly, my old Photobucket account reappeared not so long ago.
In the grand scheme of things, $50 Flickr are asking for isn't a great deal of money, so I will probably subscribe, but the benefits of a pro account are of no real value, and it does make me wonder where the whole thing will go in future.