My parents used flickr. I never found out what it does.
Whatever happened to Flickr?
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Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#12"In 2007, Flickr was the most popular dedicated photo-sharing site on the web, and growing exponentially in terms of new images uploaded." Uhm, as far as I remember it, Flickr never surpassed daily actives or daily uploads over DeviantART, not by a long shot. I'm quite sure the photo gallery did considerably more volume than Flickr. Edit- shouldn't have used never: but in 2007 I don't believe that to be true.
I find that hard to believe.
Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#13Well basically if you are going to make people pay for a photo storage website with a good visualization but somewhat shitty upload system they are just going to flee to a "general file storage" cloud for the same price with a 'slightly shittier' way of viewing them, such as drive or onedrive.
(Especially if you threaten to delete already existing photos)
Source: i moved to onerive in 2019
Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#14I remember Flickr was tremendously popular. It has everything going for it. Anecdotally, one year my wife asked for a paid membership - that indicated to me that they were doing something right as my wife was pretty hesitant to spend money on a service like that. I recall they sort of stopped developing and enhancing it. It died on the vine from neglect. I do recall when Yahoo bought it there was some talk of “fixing…
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Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#15"In 2007, Flickr was the most popular dedicated photo-sharing site on the web, and growing exponentially in terms of new images uploaded." Uhm, as far as I remember it, Flickr never surpassed daily actives or daily uploads over DeviantART, not by a long shot. I'm quite sure the photo gallery did considerably more volume than Flickr. Edit- shouldn't have used never: but in 2007 I don't believe that to be true.
I'd be quite surprised if that was true for the timeframe in question: the total number of images for 2015 were roughly the same as Flickr users had uploaded in a single year 8 years earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviantArt#cite_ref-34
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One big confound arrived when Flickr started having automatic uploaders which meant that a lot of accounts had every photo someone took on their phone even if most of them never saw much activity. DeviantArt had deliberation in the upload path so I'd expect lower numbers but higher average quality.
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#16Used Flickr for years. Then Yahoo came along. Then the T&C's changed, transferring ownership of the photos to Flickr, not even attributing the photographers. Then they introduced fees. I've not uploaded anything since Yahoo bought them.
They're no longer owned by Yahoo/Oath and are now part of SmugMug.
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#17"In 2007, Flickr was the most popular dedicated photo-sharing site on the web, and growing exponentially in terms of new images uploaded." Uhm, as far as I remember it, Flickr never surpassed daily actives or daily uploads over DeviantART, not by a long shot. I'm quite sure the photo gallery did considerably more volume than Flickr. Edit- shouldn't have used never: but in 2007 I don't believe that to be true.
Citation needed on that. Flickr had absolutely explosive growth in the mid-to-late 2000s. DeviantART always struck me as a much more niche community.
Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#18Marissa Mayer, thats what. [1] https://www.vox.com/2018/4/20/17264274/flickr-smugmug-yahoo-...
Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#19What happened to Flickr? Marissa Mayer. She counted user experience as one of her core skills. She revamped Flickr's user experience. When she was done the site was unusable. I think she realized it, because along with releasing the new UX she compensated for its suckiness by upping free storage to 1TB. A couple of takeaways: (1) A lot of people who think they are good at UX, aren't. (2) When people in power make mistakes they rarely admit it or undoes their "improvements".
Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#20I don't fully remember the details, but my understanding is that the thing that most hurt Flickr was internal Yahoo politics around mobile apps.
The Flickr team were understandably very keen to get a great mobile app released - but Yahoo had a separate division (I think called "Connected Life") which had the internal monopoly on mobile development - and the Flickr team weren't allowed to release their own application independently of that team.
Then Instagram happened.