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Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by nbzso »

Oh, Flickr. I have good memories created mainly from early communities. Deleted all my pictures in 2015. Instagram killed photography. Facebook killed forums. Google killed RSS. I expect "web3" to kill the web as we know it.:)

People stopped caring about classical aesthetics and moved their attention towards dopamine hits, social validation tricks and GAS. So for me photography is dead.

I still care around my Leica's, but nowadays all I look for is to capture some reference images for drawing or painting.

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by yesimahuman »

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.

Personally, I don’t think Flickr is best used as an image dump or photo backup service, so it’s not apples to apples. Curating your best photos and sharing those with others as well as engaging on their best photos is where Flickr shines (i.e. the community aspect)

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by yesimahuman »

forgotpwd16 wrote: post #124
wott wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 se…

Truthfully, as a user, I like the patchwork approach, or maybe have gotten used to it due to others sites using a similar design (DeviantArt, 500px). Without text and border I find pictures stand out more. But they could've kept the old one as an option. Also having an option for always active title/description in the new one would've been nice.

Agreed. I love the new design as a very active Flickr user and Pro customer.

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by petilon »

glenstein wrote: post #122
petilon wrote: post #114

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> I find it really strange that Mayer gets the blame for Yahoo’s decline. Not strange at all. That's literally what a CEO gets paid to do: to not be in decline. Microsoft was in decline when Satya took over too. It is no longer in decline. He knows how to do the job, and he is doing it.

That's an ok eli5 explainer of what a CEO is, but the positions of Microsoft and Yahoo are not remotely analogous, and the blame of Marissa Meyer flies in the face of any kind of appropriate portionality or historical context. I guess the part where I agree with you is the implicit acknowledgment that blame is merely a function of the job title, and not in any way correlated with any rational analysis of whether thos…

> blame is merely a function of the job title

Marissa Meyer's name is indelibly linked to the Flickr fail. She promoted herself as a UX expert, then "improved" Flickr and ended up f??king it up.

Excerpt from NYT story: “My focus at Google has been to deliver great end-user experiences, to delight and inspire our end users,” Ms. Mayer said in an interview. “That is what I plan to do at Yahoo, give the end user something valuable and delightful that makes them want to come to Yahoo every day.”

https://www.wired.com/2013/04/flickr/

https://gizmodo.com/flashback-how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lo...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/technology/marissa-mayer-...

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by dustintrex »

photo.net is another photo sharing site that really missed the boat. It was basically the Unsplash of the 2000s, with tons of pros and wannabes showcasing their work, but the interface stagnated and I remember that there was violent opposition to allowing resolutions higher than 800x600 or so: all the photographers were petrified that their high-res images would be stolen and used in print ads.

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by aix1 »

marwis wrote: post #67
colecut wrote: post #52

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Google photos is also pretty cheap and convenient.

With Google Photos you can't download uncompressed/original files and exif location tags are always stripped.

This was surprising, so I just downloaded one of my photos from Google Photos[*] as a test. The downloaded JPEG absolutely has EXIF location metadata.

[*] by pressing Shift+D

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by aix1 »

leephillips wrote: post #70
marwis wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With Google Photos you can't download uncompressed/original files and exif location tags are always stripped.

Yikes. So it’s just, what—some kind of sharing site? That makes it useless for backup.

I don't believe the claim about EXIF location data is accurate -- please see my comment above.

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by mudlus »

Flickr is awesome. As Instagram plays out, Flickr, and those that have paid for it for years, will be rewarded with full control over years and years and years of photos. I have full control of tens of thousands of photos I've taken since I was in high school. I LOVE Flickr. hey have excellent customer support, too. I'm less interested in the community aspect, though that is fun, as just the photo storage and organization product. It is indeed leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by mthoms »

DonHopkins wrote: post #137
mthoms wrote: post #119

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Smugmug was pretty cool except for the Comic Sans (-ish) logo. That thing was so hideous and amateur many people just didn't take them seriously.

Hey, I shipped a game that used Comic Sans all throughout, and it did ok in spite of the ugly font! https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/awrb09/just_a_frie... Slack (which was founded by the same founder as Flickr, Stewart Butterfield) seems to be doing ok with their Penis Swastika Logo, so it just goes to show how hard it is to predict which designs will be popular. https://boingboing.net/2019/01/16/slacks-new-…

Right you are about Sims 1... and I did love that game! Kudos.

Wingdings as Comic Sans is indeed the stuff of nightmares. I'll be lucky to sleep tonight :-)

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