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Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by incanus77 »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #8

Anyone remember the beginning of Flickr? It was really the best thing ever. Really! Glad to see this happen, big time.

I do! It had a great API, especially for 2004-2005. I remember after Yahoo! bought it, I went to SXSW and they were throwing an open bar somewhere and handing out Yahoo!, Upcoming, Flickr, and Del.icio.us swag. I still have and use a Flickr-themed travel microfiber cleaning cloth from that event.

Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by notatoad »

trap_goes_hot wrote: post #7

I wonder if Flickr wants to create a corpus of CC content so that they can launch a competitor to unsplash. A separate non-profit entity to limit liability sounds like a smart move. Or maybe I'm reading a cynical motive when there isn't one :)

i don't think you need to read that far to find a cynical motive - they want to collect donations to pay for the continued hosting of the content of their for-profit website. isn't keeping content online just what flickr is supposed to do?

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Post by SECProto »

croisillon wrote: post #9

not the first website where it happens but Firefox doesn't let me scroll down, I only see "Hello, World!" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you open the inspector (F12 or right click and select "inspect", then in the tag delete the words " cli-barmodal-open" and it will scroll.

Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by Smoosh »

riazrizvi wrote: post #17
dr_dshiv wrote: post #8

Anyone remember the beginning of Flickr? It was really the best thing ever. Really! Glad to see this happen, big time.

This is good news. They recently fixed the password issue too so I was able to finally access my account again after over ten years. I think I'll start adding to it.

Oh, thanks for that info. Yahoo had locked me out asking for 2nd factor when I hadn't supplied a 2nd factor. No response to any support requests.

I'll try it and see if I can get in.

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Post by pupppet »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #8

Anyone remember the beginning of Flickr? It was really the best thing ever. Really! Glad to see this happen, big time.

It was so nice, back before you had to worry about being the product.

I’d love a simple photo sharing service now that the only thing high-res on Facebook are the ads.

Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by _spduchamp »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #8

Anyone remember the beginning of Flickr? It was really the best thing ever. Really! Glad to see this happen, big time.

Yeah, I was pretty heavily involved in the Toronto Flickr community when we used to meet for photowalks and big gatherings at bars. It was an incredibly vibrant community for a while. Such awesome folks to hang out with. I'm glad to see the site being preserved for the long haul.

Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by __derek__ »

It wasn't clear from the opening who wrote this announcement:

> In December 2020, Ben MacAskill (President and COO of SmugMug + Flickr) asked me to return to the fold to figure out how to revitalize the Flickr Commons program.

So my brain decided that it was Stewart Butterfield, announcing his next move after leaving Slack. But, no, the "me" was Executive Director George Oates.[1]

[1]: https://www.flickr.org/about-us/people/

Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by Brajeshwar »

On Safari macOS 13.0.1 with the usual AdBlocker, I cannot scroll past the splash. Something seems to be covering it.

Anyways, Flickr was a large part of my life when I started with Sony's point-n-shoot digital camera in early 2000s. I started Flickr in 2004 with the gifted pro account for signing up and left it in 2015. The last-ish photo is of the one I laugh out aloud (alone in the London Tube) -- a marketing design trying to say that buying tickets were so easy -- but to hone in on what the picture meant, they had to write - (piece of cake).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brajeshwar/19704146340/in/date...

My account says 11.7 Million views, so people seem to be still looking around while I'm away.

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