We’ve built the entire platform and company on the idea of sharing your photos with the world, or specific individuals and groups you want. The core idea behind SmugMug is about sharing those photos. Archiving them is an important part of that, so we will continue to be the best place to store your photos as well. But at our heart, we are a sharing platform designed for celebrating the art and love of photography.
We will never remove public photo links, that’s the exact purpose SmugMug was built for and exactly what our loyal customers keep paying for.
And to make it perfectly clear, I am definitely a “word from management”, so this is absolutely an official stance.