The Flickr will start today deleting photos that are over the new limit it set in November 2018.
Flickr after was purchased by SmugMug, announced in November 2018 that it would curtail them free accounts in a total of 1.000 photos and videos. The change will take effect from today, and if you're over the limit, your extra photos will be permanently deleted.
With a statement in November of 2018 had announced that the change in limits will start after February 5, 2019, i.e. from today, and the deletion will be done starting from the oldest to the newest until the account contains only the 1.000 most recently uploaded archives.
*Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download content over the limit. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. On February 5, 2019, photos and videos over the free account 1,000 item limit will be at risk of deletion starting with the oldest photos and videos.
If you are above the limit and want to download all your photos from Flickr there are two ways to do it.
Camera Roll
Visit the Camera Roll located under the drop-down menu on the top bar. Press it Select All to select all groups of photos until you have selected about 500 photos. Finally, click Download at the bottom of the screen to create a ZIP file. When the download is ready to download you will receive a notification (also located in the top menu).
Album Method
Visit the "Albums" page below the drop-down menu at the top. Hover over any album and you will see a download icon for that album. By clicking on this icon, you can create a ZIP file for this album. Once the zip file is ready to download you will receive a notification.
Note that the creation of the ZIP file may take some time to be available for download. It depends on how much data you fill into it.