Butterfield wrote a humorous resignation letter to Brad Garlinghouse. On June 13, 2008, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield announced his resignation on July 12, 2008, which followed that of his wife and co-founder Caterina Fake, who remaining the company on the same working day. On December 14, 2008, The Guardian reported that 3 employees experienced been laid off as Yahoo! On December 13, 2006, upload limits on free accounts ended up enhanced to 100 MB a month (from 20 MB) and were removed from Flickr Pro accounts, which initially experienced a two GB for every month limit. Flickr has always provided two sorts of accounts: Free and Pro. On April 20, 2018, SmugMug acquired Flickr from Verizon's Oath and put an conclusion to Flickr 1 TB storage approach for no cost consumers, these customers had until February 5, 2019 to convert to 'Pro' accounts or their picture streams would be decreased to a most of 1,000 images.