This is promising: SmugMug has bought Flickr & plans to "maintain Flickr as a standalone community of amateur and professional photographers and give the long neglected service the focus and resources it deserves." (quote from article)
Now I don't have to worry about Verizon shutting it down!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/20/smugmug-buys-flickr-verizon-oath/537377002/
And the Flickr Q&A: https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/04/20/together-smugmug-flickr-faq/