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Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by FireInsight »

1024core wrote: post #159

Butterfield (one of the founders of Flickr, and later, Slack) is quite a character. He and Caterina (Fake, the other co-founder of Flickr) were working on a game, a so-called "Game Never Ending" when they realized that they needed to come up with a way for people to store screenshots and share them. Thus, Flickr was born (this is why some URLs in Flickr had ".gne" extensions). Yahoo acquired Flicker in 2005, and a fe…

imagine an alternate universe where flickr and slack are just part of a "Game Never Ending"

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by boeingUH60 »

skinnymuch wrote: post #165
ipaddr wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter was a side project that took over the office.

While booting one of the original cofounders, Noah, who had the Twitter alpha code on his laptop at the time. Ruthless.

Noah then formed a new startup; Olo, a white label delivery platform for restaurants. It’s publicly-traded and worth $3B!

https://www.olo.com/

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/olo/

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by nullifidian »

jboy55 wrote: post #182

Amazingly no one has brought up the declining sales of DSLR cameras. https://www.statista.com/statistics/799526/shipments-of-digi... Flickr is great when, and arguably designed for, uploading photos from your computer. This after you dumped your DSLR's photos and edited them. The primary source of photos is now a phone, so services designed around that fare better. Also, the professional photographer market doesn't r…

DSLRs have been replaced with mirrorless cameras, some of which are full frame and no less capable.

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

yosito wrote: post #158
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…

I also moved away from Facebook. Moved my photos to a Photoprism instance on a VPS synced between all my devices with Nextcloud. Couldn't be happier. And I'm not paying Flickr's crazy fee of $60/year just to host some photos.

I'm not sure one could do it in the UK for the equivalent of $60. Does that cost include backups?

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by vr46 »

Aeolun wrote: post #181
vr46 wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They said. I never had a single picture removed, going back to 2005.

Just checked. Also still have all my pictures going back to 2004. Glad that this was used only for actual abusers. The website does show me a warning now though.

I couldn't upload more pictures starting more recently, until I was a Pro subscriber again.

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by yosito »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #194
yosito wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also moved away from Facebook. Moved my photos to a Photoprism instance on a VPS synced between all my devices with Nextcloud. Couldn't be happier. And I'm not paying Flickr's crazy fee of $60/year just to host some photos.

I'm not sure one could do it in the UK for the equivalent of $60. Does that cost include backups?

I pay quite a bit more than $60 for the VPS, but the point is that I'm paying for a lot more than simple photo storage. $60 a year is a lot just to store my photos.

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by geef »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #81
ipaddr wrote: post #44

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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.

Founded by the same people who turned a failed video game into Slack.

Instagram was also originally a video game that had a photo sharing feature

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Post by dr_dshiv »

geef wrote: post #197
dr_dshiv wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Founded by the same people who turned a failed video game into Slack.

Instagram was also originally a video game that had a photo sharing feature

I think that is misleading. Burbn, the foursquare clone that brcame Instagram, had points —but I don't think a reasonable person would call it a video game.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/insta...

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by justsomehnguy »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #194
yosito wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also moved away from Facebook. Moved my photos to a Photoprism instance on a VPS synced between all my devices with Nextcloud. Couldn't be happier. And I'm not paying Flickr's crazy fee of $60/year just to host some photos.

I'm not sure one could do it in the UK for the equivalent of $60. Does that cost include backups?

VPS? No.

"Root" server? Hetzner gives you a range of options for 30 Euro[0], starting with 2TB RAID1 and 16GB RAM.

You can do your own backups on a separate hosts for another 30 Euro, and if you ditch RAID there you will have anywhere from 3TB to 6TB of usable space.

[0] https://www.hetzner.com/sb

Re: Whatever happened to Flickr?

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Post by Terretta »

deanc wrote: post #33

I'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 - th…

> What I really want is something that allows me to do everything.

> I refuse to pay…

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