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The world’s most-beloved money-losing business needs your help

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Re: The world’s most-beloved money-losing business needs your help

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Post by Just1689 »

amelius wrote: post #3

From the title I thought this was about Wikipedia.

Me too. It reminded me of the time I discovered how much Wikimedia spends on salaries [1]. At the time I was sure it would lead to a collapse in donations.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...

Re: The world’s most-beloved money-losing business needs your help

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Post by ethagknight »

Just1689 wrote: post #4
amelius wrote: post #3

From the title I thought this was about Wikipedia.

Me too. It reminded me of the time I discovered how much Wikimedia spends on salaries [1]. At the time I was sure it would lead to a collapse in donations. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...

Those salaries are downright modest for something as significant as Wikipedia. I was expecting to see multi-million dollar payouts to execs

Re: The world’s most-beloved money-losing business needs your help

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Post by Apocryphon »

Just1689 wrote: post #4
amelius wrote: post #3

From the title I thought this was about Wikipedia.

Me too. It reminded me of the time I discovered how much Wikimedia spends on salaries [1]. At the time I was sure it would lead to a collapse in donations. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...

It's still not a business.

Re: The world’s most-beloved money-losing business needs your help

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Post by jeena »

penetrator wrote: post #7

just raise pro price

Yeah, I would pay a higher price too, I already have a pro account, got it when I heard that SmugMug bought it and the money wouldn't go to Yahoo anymore. I bought one year pro for my brother but he never used it and I don't think my dad would or my sister either. Basically I don't know anyone close to me whom I'd gift a Flickr pro account and they'd use it.

Re: The world’s most-beloved money-losing business needs your help

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Post by scjody »

Smugmug haven't exactly been kind to the Flickr community - they walked back the "free forever" promises made by Marissa Meyer and deleted a lot of photos belonging to anyone who didn't subscribe to a pro plan after the acquisition. I'm not sure how they expect the community to have much goodwill towards them after that move.
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