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Per the SmugMug + Flickr FAQ (https://www.smugmug.com/together/faq) there will still be a free version. Pricing will not change at this time.

Will Flickr continue to offer a free version? Will Flickr’s price change?

Absolutely. Flickr’s free accounts are foundational to its community of influential and engaged photographers. We are not making any changes to Flickr plans or rates at this time. We’ll let Flickr Pro customers know if that changes.

After a bit of looking around I've migrated my photos to a self hosted Piwigo site, not least because there's a plug in for it that makes it easy to move all your photos over from Flickr, either en masse or folder by folder. It also brings over a lot of the meta data like title, description, date taken etc.

No, that would doxx me I'm afraid. But you could take a look at their demo site which lets you try some of the basic themes.

The live site that convinced me was Neil Fitzgerald Photography. Looking at the HTML he's using a theme of his own devising but the results are rather splendid and something to aspire to.

The Gallery project hasn't been maintained for the past four years, it's not safe to use, there are probably bugs and exploits that will not be fixed.

Source: one of the former devs, and see here http://galleryproject.org

Sorry for the late reply.

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>Do you find that sharing to FB from IG works better than having the images auto-sync from Flickr?

I wouldn't even try that. IG downsamples the images way too much. One of the HUGE draws of Flickr is that it allows you to upload and display full rez, unaltered images.

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>Do you provide a link-back to Flickr when you post on other sites?

I don't. I know I should, but that's just one extra step that's a pain in the rear. I would love an automated process to go from Flickr to IG that would also include a link-back to the original. I do have a link to my Flickr photostream on my IG profile.

Sharing from Flickr to FB will create the share a link back to Flickr, but it displays the image as a thumbnail that just looks aweful. I want my FB viewers to just see the image as if I'd uploaded it directly to FB. Clicking the "Share to FB" option in IG when I make a new post sends the image directly to FB with no thumbnail and no link.

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>It's a shame, because as a tool and community for photographers, Flickr seems to be about the best option out there, but it needs really tight integration with other social media so that we can interface better with non-users.

I 1000% agree. There *should* be a way to do it through the Flickr API, but I think FB and IG don't play nice with that. I feel like it's more of a problem on the FB/IG end than on the Flickr end.

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>Which social media aggregators did you try, out of curiousity?

I've used HootSuite and a couple of different IFTTT integrations, but none of them really did what I wanted them, and all of them are WAY more complicated than they should be.

If you ever find a good way to do this, don't forget to DM me with your method. ;)

Just follow the instructions on the page (it shows the README file), but if you are not comfortable with command line scripts it might be a bit obscure...

Basically you need Node.js, you clone the repository, type npm i or yarn and then you are ready to launch the script by typing ./start.js

Don't know anything that inserts to EXIF, but I've been working on a Piwigo plugin lately for importing all photos off Flickr, and it imports latitude and longitude.

Or there's flickr-cli which can export all photos and save a metadata.yml file for each that contains the coordinates. You'd have to do your own processing to do anything with it.

I use vpn and have lived in multiple countries with no problems. If you want to be safe, just coordinate so you dont log in simultaneously. If you want to be really safe, use the same VPN account login and login to flicker from the same server.
If you want to avoid flickr TOS violation, just have party 2 upload the photos to a place where party 1 (with the login) can download them locally and re-upload. One option could be tresorit: https://tresorit.com/pricing
As for the copyright issue, I understand it to be per account - so any pictures uploaded to the account, if they are marked all rights reserved, are copyrighted to the account holder. If you are worried about this, why not keep the photos private until they are all uploaded and you can manage them?