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Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by kaichanvong »

Having been a pro user of Flickr (a group of work colleagues suggested I look into it) for years the site Flickr continues to be "happening" for me; given this site link: http://flickr.kaivong.com.

The (techspot.com) headline... as ever, a good one! Though, I'm not one of those users at tech spot? However they are power-users of images -pictures (right?).

The cookies on Flickr? Given theres many other links for photography. Offering different directions for keeping your photography (personal or otherwise). For the best photographers? Be careful out there... it is photography!

Note: Techspot is a leading technology publication established in 1998.

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by julius_deane »

ianlevesque wrote: post #28
pythonic_hell wrote: post #3

At the beginning of 2021 I completely move my life away from facebooks ecosystem. As a hobbies photographer I moved from Instagram to Flickr, I wish I had done it earlier! Flickr as a tool is very focused on creators. Once you start using it you realize that the company isn't optimizing for clicks and content consumption. This results in a product and community who’s standard of quality is leagues ahead of anything e…

Doesn't sound like a successful or even self-sustaining online community though: > In 2019, SmugMug started deleting Flickr images of free users, except for the newest 1,000 and Creative Commons images. > User Frank Michel estimated that the site had lost 63% of its images as a result. In 2020, SmugMug increased the fee for a Pro account to $60 per year, saying that the site was still losing money. > It would appear…

- reduce freeloading

- increase price for paid accounts

- focus on serving paid customers

> un-sustainable

— the orange website

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by leephillips »

tjr225 wrote: post #39
leephillips wrote: post #36

Flickr 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.

Do you need to be an Apple citizen?

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by ipaddr »

pythonic_hell wrote: post #3

At the beginning of 2021 I completely move my life away from facebooks ecosystem. As a hobbies photographer I moved from Instagram to Flickr, I wish I had done it earlier! Flickr as a tool is very focused on creators. Once you start using it you realize that the company isn't optimizing for clicks and content consumption. This results in a product and community who’s standard of quality is leagues ahead of anything e…

Flickr was a failed video game that turned a feature into a product. For all those that say you can't pivot this raducally I would say sometimes you can.

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by ksec »

petilon wrote: post #19

What 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…

I often think Marissa Mayer would have been great as COO. Not so much as a CEO or Product Designer.

I remember Yahoo had another candidate that planned to turn Yahoo into a media company. Which even at the time I thought was a much better idea and direction. Instead the broad choose Mayer, and try to compete head on with Google.

In some sense it wasn't just Marissa, it was also the board's fault.

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by zimpenfish »

perryizgr8 wrote: post #30
dylan604 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has there ever been a postive result for the site being purchased be megaCorp? Sure, the founders make out like bandits, but has it ever been a net positive for the site itself?

Instagram seems to be doing quite well.

I dunno - my experience using Instagram is that it is radically worse these days. The mobile app doesn't show a chronological feed, doesn't even show me everyone I follow, every 7-8th image is a sponsored ad, they relentlessly push reels which I have no interest in watching into my feed, etc. Even the upload process - which was their huge selling point originally - is slowly becoming more frictional.

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by leephillips »

mam4 wrote: post #13

Well 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

I just took a look at Onedrive. 1TB for $60/year. Flickr is unlimited for $72/yr, and has an API and other conveniences specialized to images.

> onedrive

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by ipaddr »

leephillips wrote: post #36

Flickr 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 like the map feature. Discovering what's going on at the mokent wherever is kinda fun.

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by amelius »

petilon wrote: post #19

What 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…

(3) people love to generalize

;)

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