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Great? I remember that time I reported someone for reposting my images. Flickr's response was deleting my profile, all of my photos, and not responding to any of my attempts to contact them. On the upside, it was a good lesson to not trust service providers.
Doesn't sound like us. When was this?
At the peak of its popularity, Flickr was an interesting glimpse of the coming age of algorithmic homogeneity. In the mid-2010s, most of their top photos looked basically the same: heavily shopped, oversaturated HDR landscapes. I stopped using Flickr around the time they started flirting with bait-and-switch strategies - "we'll hide / delete your old photos unless you pay" - so maybe things have gotten better... alth…
> At the peak of its popularity, Flickr was an interesting glimpse of the coming age of algorithmic homogeneity. In the mid-2010s, most of their top photos looked basically the same: heavily shopped, oversaturated HDR landscapes. I agree with that. And then I moved to 500px, and it was the same. Started off promising, became very homogenous. Landscapes like you say, and the People sections were heavy with Eastern Eur…
I uploaded a bunch of photos once, forgot about them, and then a year or two later got an email asking to license them for commercial/stock use
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Biological humans are not, and should not be equivalent to corporations. There's a chasm in scale of execution, goals, and functional immortality. Further case law established that I - a human - can create original work, if you are a non-human entity such as an LLM, or a monkey taking a picture, you cannot.
Remind me again what beings operate corporations.
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 also loved Flickr, and Pipes was a really cool technology too. It’s cool that they used PHP, I always thought it was RoR platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Pipes
Hey, owner & CEO here. Reading this now, but AMA.
Have you considered offering free storage for freely licensed (cc-by & cc-by-sa) works? I want to share my photos under a free license, but the one thing that always put me off Flickr was that I would have to pay an indefinite subscription to contribute to the commons.
This is where I usually insert that 3,000 year old Gandalf meme. I was there pretty early. I remember being super happy on a day I got an email from Flickr that my Pro account upload quota was upgraded to 2GB monthly. Made many friends via my photos, online and in-real-life. Many of my photos became pretty popular and picked (stolen a lot too) up by major newspapers/publications in India, USA, and even in Vietnam. So…
No comment on your photos, but I think this abomination of a cookie selection banner is all on needs to see to decide on the current state of Flickr. It's literally several pages long!
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).…
This is where I usually insert that 3,000 year old Gandalf meme. I was there pretty early. I remember being super happy on a day I got an email from Flickr that my Pro account upload quota was upgraded to 2GB monthly. Made many friends via my photos, online and in-real-life. Many of my photos became pretty popular and picked (stolen a lot too) up by major newspapers/publications in India, USA, and even in Vietnam. So…
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
IG was cool when it started, but yeah, its acquisition (and shortly before) was such a swift downhill slide. Haven't even logged into my account in years and years.
The Winklevoss twins, whose project Zuckerberg intentionally delayed while he got to market first (whatever it was. I don't know exactly. Some say it was only a dating site. Some say they used bootstrapping effects to onboard colleges first). It was 2003 or whatever. It very well could've disrupted Myspace or Friendster and made them multi billionaires
"Instagram had no users" people really liked Instagram. It could've taken off, if it wasn't already
Whatsapp - Whatsapp was profitable. Now Zuck has access to your phone numbers
Stop a) whitewashing his history and b) stop assuming "blah never would have accomplished". That's an utterly bizarre take in the face of theft