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Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by jjguy »

onethumb wrote: post #34
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #16

This is exciting! I've long believed that Flickr should have doubled down on their existing users instead of trying to become another Instagram. Over on the USA Today article[0], there's this line: A longtime fan of Flickr, MacAskill says before making any decisions, he plans to collect feedback from employees and users. Hey Don - I used to pay money for Flickr, and I'm happy to start paying again if there is evidenc…

Don here, thanks so much for the vote of confidence. Big job ahead of us, but the community is the reason we did this. We want to invest, innovate and grow there. We'll be working hard. But first I have a lot of learning to do. Stay tuned.

This is why I continue to hang out on HN. Is there anywhere else on the internet this kind of connection would happen?

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by audiometry »

onethumb wrote: post #34
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #16

This is exciting! I've long believed that Flickr should have doubled down on their existing users instead of trying to become another Instagram. Over on the USA Today article[0], there's this line: A longtime fan of Flickr, MacAskill says before making any decisions, he plans to collect feedback from employees and users. Hey Don - I used to pay money for Flickr, and I'm happy to start paying again if there is evidenc…

Don here, thanks so much for the vote of confidence. Big job ahead of us, but the community is the reason we did this. We want to invest, innovate and grow there. We'll be working hard. But first I have a lot of learning to do. Stay tuned.

Don— I was a paying customer too. Then Flickr changed their login, forcing me to get a yahoo account, which I then lost over time. So for years now, my account, and all the photos of my 1-3yo kid are buried and locked behind the “you need (login) and pay premium access to see all your photos”. All because that stupid yahoo login integration. Unrecoverable.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by redm »

Great news, I enjoy seeing old sites like Flickr being saved from oblivion. SmugMug is a great company too.

On a side note, this is a terrible announcement page when viewed on FireFox 59. It's barely usable. It works well on Chrome though.

Its either poor design by SmugMug, superior design by Google Chrome, or leveraging some capability of chrome not available on FireFox. The cake flying is delayed by 1+ second each scroll. Please do more cross-browser testing!

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

#45

Post by onethumb »

audiometry wrote: post #42
onethumb wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don here, thanks so much for the vote of confidence. Big job ahead of us, but the community is the reason we did this. We want to invest, innovate and grow there. We'll be working hard. But first I have a lot of learning to do. Stay tuned.

Don— I was a paying customer too. Then Flickr changed their login, forcing me to get a yahoo account, which I then lost over time. So for years now, my account, and all the photos of my 1-3yo kid are buried and locked behind the “you need (login) and pay premium access to see all your photos”. All because that stupid yahoo login integration. Unrecoverable.

I will move heaven and earth to solve this for you. We're moving off of Yahoo Auth as soon as we can, but can likely fix before that (which will take awhile). Raising this up the flag pole.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

#46

Post by onethumb »

vzaliva wrote: post #39

I am also a longtime Flickr user. I stopped paying after I realized that the site is going nowhere. I was just contemplating closing the account, but in view of this news, I will give it another chance. There are hundreds of sites where people can dump their unprocessed vacation photos from their iPhones. My main interest in Flickr was as a place to share and discover high-quality photo works. That means good support…

Thanks for the vote of confidence and trust. We'll work hard to earn it and live up to a high bar.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

#48

Post by onethumb »

redm wrote: post #44

Great news, I enjoy seeing old sites like Flickr being saved from oblivion. SmugMug is a great company too. On a side note, this is a terrible announcement page when viewed on FireFox 59. It's barely usable. It works well on Chrome though. Its either poor design by SmugMug, superior design by Google Chrome, or leveraging some capability of chrome not available on FireFox. The cake flying is delayed by 1+ second each…

We did a ton of cross-browser testing, but it's possible we missed something or had a regression. Checking. Thanks for letting me know!

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

#49

Post by himom »

I take it Verizon (Oath) is breaking up, selling, absorbing and dissolving Yahoo properties. AOL mail isn’t long for this world, although I’m sure an email hosting company would love to buy that user-base of elders and tech luddites.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

#50

Post by zokier »

Clobbersmith wrote: post #4

When I worked at Yahoo they never quite knew what to do with Flickr. I hope at the very least Flickr gets resources to develop the site/app/other priorities because they make some pretty neat stuff.

> at Yahoo they never quite knew what to do

Isn't that true for Yahoo in general? They kinda stumbled upon being internet giant, and have been utterly confused on what to do next ever after.

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