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Data Lifeboat Alpha Release is here!
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Looking back over 2025
Here's a handy compendium of all the stuff we've done this year. Wheee!
Oreoluwa’s Midpoint Reflections
Flickr Foundation's Winter Research Fellow shares their reflections on the Fellowship so far and the next phases of their creative, archival research
New Podcast: How we made Flickr's community so nice
George talks with Rabble of Revolution Social to discuss her work designing Flickr and the model for an alternative internet with care, community and preservation at its core.
Flickr Foundation at Mozilla Festival
Tori and George headed to Barcelona to talk digital legacy in the age of social media and what should be done about it
4,400 new glass negatives added to Flickr Commons
Please welcome the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law Library to Flickr Commons! Our first Hungarian member.
Meet Elizabeth Goodspeed, Casual Archivist
"Entire categories of imagery or creators can disappear simply because no one thought they mattered in the moment. That’s the tension between saving and hoarding."
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