There was a sudden mass of complaining (including myslef) and Flickr is listening, which makes me as a paying user feel better. They have admitted that there has been a lot of downtime lately and have also given an ETA on when they believe that the service will be up again. I am not pissed at Flickr though, that has to be heard. I know that they are in Beta and things like this are going to happen. Plus the downtime is for them to upgrade servers and databases, which will increase the service for me later on. I applaud Flickr for listening to their users.