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Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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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.

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Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by rapathak »

I know nothing about the specifics here but I know Don and his respect for photographers and their creativity. I have 100% confidence that he and the SmugMug team will do the right thing for the Flickr community. Flickr+SmugMug FTW!

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by balladeer »

salimmadjd wrote: post #35

This is the best possible news for Flickr and its community. I've known the SmugMug founders from the beginning. First of all, they're one of the nicest people you can imagine. They're also super committed to the photographers and the photography community. Everyone there is not only a photo geek, but they're constantly helping, supporting and promoting photographers. 4 of my photos are printed in large size (one is…

I think it will be very important how they deal with the Flickr UI. Whether they will

- change Flickr to look more like SmugMug (if at all the platforms are not merged),

- or leave it as it is today (the slow, heavy, and glossy Flickr),

- or try to bring back something close to the blazing fast Flickr days when it looked so clean and minimal and was not at all glossy.

Many of us are pining for the latter.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by 9935c101ab17a66 »

onethumb wrote: post #48
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!

Yah I'm on a 2016 15" MBP running 10.13.4 and Safari 11.1 and the site is almost unusable for me. If you want more specific information or would like me to test fixes you can email me at my user name @ gmail.com

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by reitanqild »

sah2ed wrote: post #117
jjguy wrote: post #41

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

In terms of communities where you can get the most qualified person on a topic to reply, I think Quora would also qualify, and to a limited extent, Twitter.

Quora really seemed nice until they started publish everything I did there. I also think they had a real name policy. (At least thats how I remember it.)

They might have fixed that now but I feel it would take quite some effort for them to make them feel safe again.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by onethumb »

et-al wrote: post #55
onethumb wrote: post #34

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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.

Hi Don, Since you're here, may I voice a thing I really enjoyed about Flickr? Community and actual human communication. Perhaps in the mobile era this isn't possible anymore since everyone is attention starved and tiny screens and keyboards aren't conducive to longform communication, but this was Flickr's strength. You'd find a group where your photos were relevant and start conversations with strangers halfway aroun…

The community _is_ the thing with Flickr. It's what we're most excited about. We'll work hard to play to those strengths.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by onethumb »

chrissnell wrote: post #93
onethumb wrote: post #34

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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.

Hi Don, I've been a Pro user of Flickr since 2005 or so. I actually thought for the first time this year that I would cancel it. My number-one complaint is speed. It's so slow. As a professional infrastructure guy, it just kills me and I wished I could buy the company myself and make it fast again. I really hope you will invest in revitalizing this service because I really don't want to go. My life--from young skier/…

On it. We were a pre-launch customer of AWS, so we've been building both modern and at scale for quite some time. Super-talented team at Flickr, I can't wait to see what we can do together.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by onethumb »

ausjke wrote: post #94
chrissnell wrote: post #93

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Hi Don, I've been a Pro user of Flickr since 2005 or so. I actually thought for the first time this year that I would cancel it. My number-one complaint is speed. It's so slow. As a professional infrastructure guy, it just kills me and I wished I could buy the company myself and make it fast again. I really hope you will invest in revitalizing this service because I really don't want to go. My life--from young skier/…

same here, pro user for 10+ years and I rarely use flickr these days but have been letting my credit card renew nonetheless. please revive flickr.

You have my promise that we'll work very hard to do just that.

Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by onethumb »

1024core wrote: post #54
onethumb wrote: post #45

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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.

Already designing and architecting that. Should be great. Stay tuned.
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