I am pro paying user of flickr since more than 10 years
With over 140 millions views and 15000 followers
I am doing mostly artistic nudes and sharing ideas and experience with other photographers in the same domain.
flickr was one of the only place i found where i could share this content with adequate curation
If smugmug policy is applied , it will delete 90% of my content and 10 years of effort in buidling a network around my work
Smugmug Acquires Flickr
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :)
I'm in heavy learning mode so I don't have these answers yet. I wish I did. The way I run SmugMug is pretty simple: We love our customers, we listen to them, we build great experiences for them based on that feedback, then we do it all over again. We're going to apply that same approach to Flickr. Simply migrating them into AWS, and getting off of Yahoo Auth, and the variety of other urgent issues, will take a lot of…
Thanks again, and the best of luck to y'all!
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#233Earlier 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.
Hi Don, Since you're here and talking about community, can you say what your approach is going to be to the copious content on Flickr that violates SmugMug's content policy (but not Flickr's)? Flickr's approach in the past [0] has allowed most things as long as a content filter is applied to keep it from kids and those who don't want to see it. SmugMug's approach [1] is to very broadly ban anything "indecent" in any…
Flickr has its own Privacy Policy [0] and Terms of Service [1], separate and different from SmugMug's. I actually think this represents a good opportunity to revisit, and possibly update, what is and isn't allowed on SmugMug as well, something we haven't done in ages. We'll see, still learning. :)
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe elsewhere in the thread someone stated that SmugMug's terms (including on content) would also apply to Flickr starting in late May, so that's something to look into.
thanks for pointing this out, took me a bit to find the terms. There is this gem "obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, sexually suggestive, hateful, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, fraudulent or otherwise objectionable or harmful, including without limitation: Photos, Videos or other User Content containing nudity that would be unacceptable in a public museum…
Flickr has its own Privacy Policy [0] and Terms of Service [1].
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#235So what will happen to users who have a smugmug and Flickr account? Will they do an almost merge ala Google and YouTube?
We're not planning on merging the products, but we realize there are customers with both that might like them to be even easier to use together. I don't know what shape that'll look like yet, or when you might expect it, but I'm excited to dig in and find out.
I'm a longtime Flickr paid user (still am, as others have said, mostly from inertia). I am curious, if Flickr and Smugmug will stay separate, what differences between the two will be highlighted/ upgraded? What does the new owner envision will be their respective "expertise". For now I'll stick with Flickr, but I'd love to learn more about how Flickr and Smugmug will be similar and more importantly, different. There are so many photographers out there - differing quality, attention span, interests, and purposes.. so time will tell if/what niches these two entities will be touted to meet best.
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#236Dear Don @onethumb,
Thanks a lot for taking on the big task on reviving Flickr ! I think SmuMug is a good fit for this task =). If I can help in any way to help you do that, please email me ! I live in Europe so maybe if you need a rep there ahhahaha
Some suggestions : - I am still a Pro Flickr subscriber amd I use Flickr mostly as my "photo hardrive in the cloud" and to share pictures in high quality for weddings & cie.
- However it's unbearably slow to organize your pictures on Flickr when you have 40.000+/10+ years of pictures. I even tried to use Flickr-Fuse, mounted as filesystem on my computer, to try to reorganize my content, but no help on that point.
- And I tended to use Flickr less as a "cloud photo backup harddrive" these last years because it has became quite slow and unreliable to upload pictures on Flickr.
- Please simplify and improve the API too, so we can have cool tools again to go with Flickr/SmugMug (FlickMug? Smugkr ? hahaha )
- RAW format upload/download would be a big differentiator from Instagram & cie.
All the best to you in this new big adventure ! Y
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#237Re: Smugmug Acquires Flickr
#238PhotoALBM Launches Ultimate Flickr Replacement Service. It is a truly photo-centric platform for professional photographers and photography enthusiasts where users upload photos to show off their work while enjoying the work of others. Think of it as YouTube for photographers.