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Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by anyfoo »

DEFCON28 wrote: post #17

Flickr used to be great. Now it's unsuitably bad. I was a premium Flickr user for years, and then they broke sharing in a big way. I could no longer send "private" links to people I knew of my photo albums and expect them to be able to view the photos without signing up for an account. I now share simple photo albums with Microsoft Sway.

Seems like they unbroke it eventually, at least I've been using those private share links pretty often in the past few months alone.

In fact, the link is the very first thing you get when you click the "Share" button, no need to click anything else. That feature is actually one of the primary reasons I'm still a Pro user after all those years, so I'm glad they seem to still care about it.

EDIT: I think I do vaguely remember that it was broken (or at least undiscoverable) for a while, so I'm not challenging you, I just wanted to inform you that it's back better than ever.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by ghaff »

joshvm wrote: post #9
rmason wrote: post #2

Finally Flickr will no longer be the neglected stepchild of a corporate parent and will receive some much needed love. Even though a lot of time has passed I'm optimistic that Flickr has a real chance to reassert its domination of online pictures.

Flickr has one really useful feature that I've used a lot: easy searching for public domain imagery. It's great that you can dial in whichever level of CC licensing you want and then grab some photos for marketing or wireframing. Also handy for machine learning!

I generally like flickr and have been a "pro" paid user for a long time. This seems like a likely positive step as an uploader. That said. I also use flickr a lot as a CC/PD source for presentations. My expectation is that there will be changes that make this sort of thing decline or disappear.

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Post by ryandrake »

As an early beta tester and long time user of SmugMug I’ve been impressed with its ability to do the thing it’s supposed to do really well. Too many services have tried to hang all sorts of junk off their main service, changing things to the point where their core function suffers. The founder had shown an attribute we don’t normally associate with good companies/services: restraint.

SmugMug could have diluted itself by bolting on a chat app, or it could have gotten bogged down in endless site re-designs, or chased the suicidal “growth at any cost” goal. Remarkable that Don had the vision to not do these insane things. I wish these guys the best of luck with this new “turnaround“ project!

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by jmcphers »

acdha wrote: post #26

This is so much better than I’d feared. Closing my Flickr account was one of those nagging to-do items and I’m really happy to drop it.

+1. After a couple of years of Yahoo (now Verizon) ownership I knew I needed to get off the sinking ship, but now I can stay on a little longer. I hope Smugmug is a better steward.
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