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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.
long time flickr user - I would love to continue paying for the service!
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…
I think the focus on community is paramount. Make it into a Photographer's go-to watering hole. Serious groups like organizing shows, workshops, quality book printing, blogging (for news and events), and better ways to organize and display photos of interest [group a series of photos regardless of member [so long as the photo was public] --like the group pool stream but allow to showcase photos from sources other the…
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.
Long term Flickr user here, since the start and a paying customer. In the groups that I’m active in there is a thriving community and it would be a shame if that was compromised. I know people here are happy that it is out from the yoke of Yahoo, but over the years I’ve seen so many products that I use get bought up, enthusiastically changed, and then ruined or closed down by the new owners. Please don’t ruin it with…
how confident of them to use YouTube for this announcement rather than flickr's own video hosting service.
2. Smugmug charges money for their product and eventually buys free-product competitor Flickr.
Charging customers for your service really does help you win in the long run.
Edit: Taken from this tweet - https://twitter.com/zachleat/status/987523973612298240
So what will happen to users who have a smugmug and Flickr account? Will they do an almost merge ala Google and YouTube?
1. Pinboard charges money for their product and eventually buys former free-product competitor Delicious. 2. Smugmug charges money for their product and eventually buys free-product competitor Flickr. Charging customers for your service really does help you win in the long run. Edit: Taken from this tweet - https://twitter.com/zachleat/status/987523973612298240
Smugmug's Acceptable Use Policy [0] is rather puritan, forbidding things that are "indecent", "lewd", "sexually suggestive" or anything else that "in the sole judgment of SmugMug, is objectionable, harmful".
Flickr's [1] on the other hand is rather accepting: "If you would hesitate to show your photos or videos to a child, your family, or a stranger on the street, that means you need to set the appropriate content filter setting."
I really hope Smugmug doesn't force their ideals on Flickr. It'd be nice if instead they used Flickr as an example of how to loosen content restrictions on Smugmug.
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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.
vOv