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Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by quickthrower2 »

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…

On chrome I cannot use the scrollbar by scrolling whilst the youtube is in eyeshot, but I can use the scrollbar by clicking above/below the slider. Weird. They need to simplify.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by RyJones »

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.

long time flickr user - I would love to continue paying for the service!

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by quickthrower2 »

downer68 wrote: post #56

Jesus christ, that fucking name, though. "smugmug" Can they drop that, and retain flickr, please. Please?

Reminds me of the fictional company Chumhum from The Good Wife.

Has 4 of the same letters, the same pattern X123123 and the different letters are C->S and G->H

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by IrrationalPhoto »

jjguy wrote: post #41
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.

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

Slashdot?

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by lloydde »

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…

> long believed that Flickr should have doubled down on their existing users instead of trying to become another Instagram.

I don’t really remember Flickr trying to become another Instagram, but much of the founding team had left Flickr before Instagram was a thing and the more of the Flickr founding team in the early years of Instagram.

I just reread Mat Honan’s April 2012 article “How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet”. It still stands out as an insightful article on what went wrong at Yahoo!’s Flickr https://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost...

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by TheWiseOne »

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,

Will you keep the current 1 TB free storage tier as is?

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by killjoywashere »

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.

Hi Don, been paying for Flickr and looking lustfully at SmugMug for a long time, user back when Game Neverending was still mixed in. Bought accounts for all my family too. Looking forward to work.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by krallja »

Bye_Felicia wrote: post #57
downer68 wrote: post #56

Jesus christ, that fucking name, though. "smugmug" Can they drop that, and retain flickr, please. Please?

I take it you did not see yesterday's thread concerning the new open source social network: 'scuttlebutt' ?

Scuttlebutt is an actual English word, while SmugMug is not.
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