I received the Flickr announcement email 11 times. Am I the only one?
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.
Hey Don, I have been on flickr since 2010 and I have been subscribed to Flickr's "Pro" service for several years. I rely a lot on those statistics to generate more views and contacts I would also like an expansion and more detailed analysis Why can't I know WHICH picture was found through Google (You don't, you say there were X finds through Google, but we can't see which picture)? Why don't you show the Google Searc…
I had a quick look over their pricing plans, and they actually seem pretty fair to me. $48 per year to store all of your photos on the basic paid tier, and all the other tiers seemed aimed at people that are either enthusiasts or professionals, eg people who want to have their own domain.
The old adage of "you kind of get what you pay for" seems to apply.
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#173Great news as a ex-Flickr user who migrated to iPhoto and recently has recently migrated again to Smugbug! Only downside I've found so far is they don't support HIEF/RAW/DMG uploads so I had to convert these files to JPEG but other than that all seems to work as expected. So shouldn't be too many surprises for those used to Flickr/iPhoto.
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#174There's a similarity to pinboard buying delicious.
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#175I received the Flickr announcement email 11 times. Am I the only one?
nope... 25 time for me
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I forgot about those gaudy animated badges. Social media does have tough challenges ahead, especially as bots/spam become more and more prevalent. I would love to work on a bot-prevention team somewhere, but my background isn't in ML.
I like the idea of building a reputation system that accepts bots as first class citizens instead of imagining them as an inherent problem. Anyone who meaningfully contributes is good even if they are a bot, and anyone who doesn’t gets left behind. (Easier said than done but the approach to the problem is what’s fundamentally different.)
Think of the bots on Reddit
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#178Jesus christ, that fucking name, though. "smugmug" Can they drop that, and retain flickr, please. Please?
They've finally secured enough capital to buy a vowel and call it http://flicker.com -- but just to be backwards compatible they also got http://smugmg.com .
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#179I didn't even know what Smugmug was before today, it does not happen a lot when a company buys a big player like Flickr!
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#180Jesus christ, that fucking name, though. "smugmug" Can they drop that, and retain flickr, please. Please?
I agree. I had never heard of Smugmug until just now. I want to call it "Smug hug" or "Smug hub" .. no one is going to remember that name correctly. It's awful.
I can't help but remember it as "SmutMut".