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SmugMug is pretty great.
This is less a pro-Flickr than an anti-Insta but I absolutely refuse to sign up for the latter Zuck purely bought it to murder competition in the crib I'm not going to sign up for it just because he put a hard login wall ("look at how many users we have!") He kills art, he kills organic reach, all his products turn into spam, 97 ads per real post
> Zuck purely bought it to murder competition in the crib That makes no sense. It’s very obviously been nurtured and grown by orders of magnitude since acquisition.
It's absolutely grown, but the concept of IG was definitely "de-prioritized".
Flickr was the coolest thing Yahoo had when I worked there (Brickhouse was a close second). I really loved all the places where they snuck in "Game Never Ending" in the product, because they didn't set out to make a photo sharing product, but steered hard into that. Flickr was the only property which was allowed their own version of PHP and despite having PHP inside, every single URL said ".gne" (Game Never Ending).…
+1 on Flickr being the best acquisition and product Yahoo! had. I still have my account and old photos there. And because I licensed most of them as CC, a couple of them landed on Wikipedia because of that - felt nice.
Flickr was the coolest thing Yahoo had when I worked there (Brickhouse was a close second). I really loved all the places where they snuck in "Game Never Ending" in the product, because they didn't set out to make a photo sharing product, but steered hard into that. Flickr was the only property which was allowed their own version of PHP and despite having PHP inside, every single URL said ".gne" (Game Never Ending).…
To me, Flickr is the better Photo.net. Photo.net has been around since 1993 and apparently is still running, but it never was a site where you could just collect your own work and share them the way you wanted. It would be interesting to read about how Flickr succeeded against an older, established competitor.
photo.net is the water cooler. flickr is the portfolio. They're different. I never talked to anyone on flickr. I'm still friends with people from photo.net
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whats the current censorship level? I seem to recall a buyout and some kind of 'certain things are no longer allowed' changes. Similar thing happened with tumblr, then they semi-reversed a little but not a lot I think. Stopped using both because losing content and accounts with no customer support is the internet way apparently.
We rely on self- and community-moderation. As long as content is flagged appropriately, we allow and embrace content that's often banned on other platforms, such as artistic nudes. Not everything is allowed, though - here's the list: https://www.flickrhelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/20529310987796-... We do have real, human, in-house customer support. It's good and fast.
No hate speech, no Nazis, no pornography, no weird screenshots, no spam.
Nothing surprised me, basically what I’d expect.
So I looked for a good alternative and found the paid https://glass.photo/ -- almost no one uses it, the service probably won't survive the next 5-10 years, but at least the UI/UX is done with some thought
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No they haven’t. Copyright protected you against your work being used in ways you did not agree to. Enforcement is another things but photographers and artists have had ways to push back against illicit use of their work, notably by larger corporations. Licensing is an industry based on this protection alone. The difference is that now, large corporations with plenty of money are able to just swallow other people’s w…
> Copyright protected you against your work being used in ways you did not agree to. Is this true? Remember that Harlan Ellison plagiarism case, the nightmare he went through to get a payout? It seems the vast majority of times, when a corporation decides it wants to use something you created, it gets to just do so because it has more capital than you.
I still pay for Flickr Pro, for a couple of reasons: the API still works, and I basically use it as a DAM for my wife's website. She's a composer, and it's super handy to have her upload into a Flickr Album and pull back different image sizes for her catalog. Secondly, it makes use of and exposes EXIF data. I really, really lament the Instagrammification of online photography, where the only aspect ration was 1:1, te…
Flickr was the coolest thing Yahoo had when I worked there (Brickhouse was a close second). I really loved all the places where they snuck in "Game Never Ending" in the product, because they didn't set out to make a photo sharing product, but steered hard into that. Flickr was the only property which was allowed their own version of PHP and despite having PHP inside, every single URL said ".gne" (Game Never Ending).…
I never understood the appeal of instagram over Flicker.