Will acquisition of Flickr by SmugMug affect my Story Map Tour use of photos stored on Flickr?

[RobinRosenthal]

I just received a notification that Flickr is being acquired by SmugMug. I'm in the process of creating a Story Map Tour. I'm storing the photos that will be used on Flickr. Will the Story Map Tour app have any troubles referencing my photos in Flickr? Do you know yet if the urls for the photos will remain the same?

[RupertEssinger · Accepted solution]

Hi Robin

So far it sounds like Flickr system and brand will be maintained as-is. Here's the FAQ from the Flickr blog: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/04/20/together-smugmug-flickr-faq/

But we're keeping an eye on that, and will aim to let Story Map authors know well ahead time about any changes we find out about. This is similar to the changes we made in the recent ArcGIS Online update to help authors prepare for the upcoming changes in web browsers like Chrome, where they will increasingly warn users about web pages that use HTTP instead of HTTPS: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/faq/#question24a 

Rupert

[RobinRosenthal]

Thanks Rupert. It's reassuring that they intend to retain the Flickr url...at least for now. I'm working towards a June launch and would hate to have things change on me before then.