It did get worse for a while, during the period when facebook's bad example made all the megacorps wrongly believe they could do whatever they wanted to their non-paying customers, but then people began leaving for the competition so flickr improved their service again. One of the reasons I tend to stick with comparatively non-innovative mainstream web-service providers is that they're actually aiming to be middle of the road and this is one of the rare occasions when I want precisely that, heh, especially as I tend to be using older tech. At some point in the future flickr will probably make bad management decisions again but at least they now have some record of rolling those back, unlike almost every other provider. /expecting the worst but hoping for the best

If you don't want to put all your eggs in dropbox's basket then you could use flickr as a back-up. That way you'd have linkable images stored in two places (and you'd be familiar with a current version of flickr without a steep learning curve).