Smugmug Acquires Flickr

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Post by uptown » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 10:31 PM UTC

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Post by rmason » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 10:47 PM UTC

Finally Flickr will no longer be the neglected stepchild of a corporate parent and will receive some much needed love. Even though a lot of time has passed I'm optimistic that Flickr has a real chance to reassert its domination of online pictures.

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Post by eveningcoffee » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 11:06 PM UTC

I hope that they do not kill or maim it some way. Flickr is a treasure.

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Post by Clobbersmith » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 11:13 PM UTC

When I worked at Yahoo they never quite knew what to do with Flickr. I hope at the very least Flickr gets resources to develop the site/app/other priorities because they make some pretty neat stuff.

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Post by abrowne » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 11:16 PM UTC

Fifteen years ago I would not have been surprised by the reverse.

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Post by wpietri » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 11:17 PM UTC

Here's a more detailed article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/20/smugmug-buys-...

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Post by wpietri » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 11:19 PM UTC

wpietri wrote: post #6

Here's a more detailed article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/20/smugmug-buys-...

And I'll add that I'm excited by this. I have a lot of photos on Flickr, but fell off using it as Yahoo neglected it. I still don't feel like photos are a solved problem for me. Hopefully this will at least shake things up, but I'd love to see them turn again into my favorite tool for managing and sharing my photos.

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Post by jlarocco » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 11:21 PM UTC

I wonder if they'll put something in place to link accounts for people who have them with both services. Funny thing is that I used to have a paid Flickr account, but at some point they downgraded me and stopped taking my money; I think around the time they bumped up free storage to 1 Tb.

Not a huge deal either way because I haven't uploaded anything to Flickr in ages, and I imported everything into SmugMug when I signed up, but it'd be nice to have them unified.

It's also very weird that one of the promo scenes is a dumpster fire. Wouldn't have been my first choice, but what do I know?

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Post by joshvm » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 11:22 PM UTC

rmason wrote: post #2

Finally Flickr will no longer be the neglected stepchild of a corporate parent and will receive some much needed love. Even though a lot of time has passed I'm optimistic that Flickr has a real chance to reassert its domination of online pictures.

Flickr has one really useful feature that I've used a lot: easy searching for public domain imagery. It's great that you can dial in whichever level of CC licensing you want and then grab some photos for marketing or wireframing. Also handy for machine learning!

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Post by kornork » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 11:24 PM UTC

I have a Flickr account with several thousand curated photos in it. Several years ago I let myself get convinced into turning on automatic photo upload. Before I knew it, my photostream was filled with garbage screenshots and photos of people blinking. It created 100s of tiny albums that cluttered my page and made my Flickr page a mess that I could no longer use, and I mostly abandoned photography.

I spent several days this year deleting all of those photos (because of course there was no batch delete that I could find).

Hopefully Smugmug does something great!