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Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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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…

Magnifying setting?

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

#62

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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.

> We're moving off of Yahoo Auth So what will replace it? I've been a Flickr user for more than 10 years.

Maybe they'll return the Flickr logins to users?

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

#64
Great news. Happy to become a paying Flickr customer again. There still isn’t a good place to store and share photos where it doesn’t feel like someone else owns them. Good integration with mobile and reasonably priced storage would be at the top of my list. And I agree with the overall tenor that then community is what made Flickr amazing. Happy to contribute to the efforts of bringing that back. Lots of challenges ahead, but this feels like a good thing for the internet.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

#65

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.

I am happy to hear of the new era of Flickr!

Some questions: 1. Are you going to keep the 1TB free space for everyone?

2. Do you think you'll have a desktop uploader available for non-paying users?

3. What about open-source integration (digiKam, etc)? Last time I tried, I couldn't get it to work with Yahoo authentication.

Thanks, and looking forward to the new life :)

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

#66

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.

I still have an account. If there was a reasonably priced, full featured Flickr I would resubscribe.

I have a smugmug account. Is there going to be a way to marry the two??? I have 11 years of photos on Flickr and would hate to have to move them (your sys people would hate it too I’m sure).

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

#67
Big fan of SmugMug, and I’ve been thrilled to see the iOS app get better and better over time. I’ve loved the laser-like focus of the site too.

Here’s hoping SmugMug doesn’t languish or get bloated while they take on Flickr!

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

#68
post #62

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> We're moving off of Yahoo Auth So what will replace it? I've been a Flickr user for more than 10 years.

Maybe they'll return the Flickr logins to users?

I would be very surprised if what they did wasn’t common sense. Their track record has been fantastic.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

#69

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.

Hi Don! Are you hiring engineers in NYC by chance for this new opportunity? :)

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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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.

you can email me almonroth at flickr.com and I will try to help you.
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