Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

Post by prox » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 6:01 PM UTC

neonnomad wrote: post #154

prox wrote: post #62

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I have been going back some times to flickr and dropped insta, since it’s a crap place these days (like most of the big socials) The elegance of flickr is just nice and browsing is fun. I wonder if there are more sites like it.

Saw some other folks starting to use https://glass.photo

Post by leviathant » Mon, May 04, 2026, 5:07 AM UTC

lou1306 wrote: post #84

leviathant wrote: post #55

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…

EXIF data enabled some pretty cool things, like PhotoSynth [1]. This stuff looks futuristic even now, ~20 years later, basically what the Metaverse could/should have been. [1] https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn...