This is the same problem as with Imgur and it's various clones - https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-onli...
Whatever happened to Flickr?
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Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#32Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#33I've seen a few new photo hosting applications creep up now and then in recent HN threads like this, but none have really hit the spot for me. I take photos as a hobby, nothing too serious, mainly if the weather is nice or we're on vacation. I have a Fujifilm X100F and an old Canon DSLR. I rarely use my Canon.
Fuji strikes a perfect balance between on-camera processing (film simulations), quality and mainly size - that it's become my primary driver. There is a subreddit with a plethora of monotonous, uninteresting images with white boards on reddit at /r/fujix. I miss the diversity and creativity of early flickr.
Google Photos is my go-to nowadays for hosting photos, and sharing with the family. Everyone I know has a google account, and sharing is super easy. Their UI is the best I have ever used - so quick and snappy and probably the most implementation of infinite scroll I've seen. But it's just that - nothing more.
What I really want is something that allows me to do everything. I want to be able to upload my RAW photos and not have to think about it in terms of space or cost (at least not at the current prices). I want to be able to edit them using powerful tools (as in Lightroom or Darktable [my current choice as i refuse to pay for lightroom]) in the same tool I use to upload and manage them. I want to be able to be part of a community of photographers and sharing my photos within that community or namespace/tag should be seamless and I should not have to think too much about the divide between my personal life and my online life. I should be able to really quickly take a family photo album and safely indicate that this is for public consideration outside of that album. I should be able to use machine learning to intelligently and automatically apply a vasty array of tags to my images, only using a cursory glance to validate them. I want it to intelligently classify locations, so if I'm travelling around Austria - I could just say show me photos from west tyrol without needing to enter the exact city or look at some poorly rendered and slow map.
The problem with the current solutions, are the division of tools, the division of disciplines, the cost of storage, the shitty UIs, and the difficulty in creating communities around interests, cameras and/or styles.
Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#34Used 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.
The Yahoo login thing killed me. But I did like the idea of "flickr: photo sharing for people who have Yahoo.com email addresses"
Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#35Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#36Flickr is great. With a modest yearly fee I get unlimited storage to back up all my pictures. With one click I can generate a URL for any album to share it. Phone pictures are backed up automatically: I take a picture, it gets copied to Flickr.
I’m not sure I understand the article. I don’t see the fact that Flickr is not Instagram to be a disadvantage.
The UI is bad and always was bad. But it’s easy to upload a whole directory of images at once, and they have an API.
MORE: Every now and then I go there just to browse the public photographs. There’s way too much over-processed fantasy-type imagery for my taste, but also invariably some great stuff, I’m always impressed by the talent of the photographers there.
Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#37What 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 mis…
The same thing that happened to JC Penney (Ron Johnson). Buying a big name that was lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time with the right idea for the right company doesn't mean you magically get their success.
JC Penney was on its way out, or at least in terminal decline. It did not matter who took the helm, the change to online shopping meant there was going to be consolidation as demand for in person shopping went down.
Even Macys is struggling, and now they have a part of the store that sells basically non returnable junk, like a dollar store.
There is typically only room for 1 or 2 retail businesses now per market segment (how much customers are willing/able to spend).
Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#38What 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 mis…
What's the problem with UX now compared to before?
It used to be well organised grid-ordered thumbnails (regularly displayed even when from different aspect ratios) on a white background that made picture stand out, with titles and descriptions as first citizens. Ipernity (http://www.ipernity.com/explore/whatshot) kept more or less that appearance, if you want to see).
Then in 2012 or 2013, they 'modernised' it into the current one: glued pictures with almost no separation and 100% screen occupation making an irregular patchwork; no title/description if you don't hover, I guess to accommodate a growing number of people who dumped their memory card without captioning their photos, and often without sorting them.
Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?
#39Flickr is great. With a modest yearly fee I get unlimited storage to back up all my pictures. With one click I can generate a URL for any album to share it. Phone pictures are backed up automatically: I take a picture, it gets copied to Flickr. I’m not sure I understand the article. I don’t see the fact that Flickr is not Instagram to be a disadvantage. The UI is bad and always was bad. But it’s easy to upload a whol…
I used to use Flickr, but iCloud storage is cheaper and more convenient.