The least we can say is that the meteoric rise of Flickr has been a severe setback for the community networks, especially Facebook, have become the first places of exchange and sharing around photos .Bought in 2005 by Yahoo and propelled as a leading engine of Web 2.0, Flickr pain for several months to regain his place on the Internet landscape. The announcement to move the cap of 4 billion files hosted arrives at the best time to Flickr, which may well resurface in the media and thus afford an advertising campaign pretty cheaply.

For not, Flickr is not dead and is widely used, especially by a crowd of amateur and professional photographers who store and display their photographs. Indeed, Flickr lets you store images in their native resolution, which is not the case with Facebook, but also keep their Exif information. Photo numbered "4 000 000 000" on the Flickr servers has been put online by Punimoe.