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Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by toastal »

q-base wrote: post #37

I really think that Flickr has unrealised potential. One of the reasons photographers use Instagram is probably the ability to share their work with a wide enough audience and not just "photo-snobs". For years Instagram has been more or less hostile towards photographers, who just want to use the app for photo sharing. Flickr, in my opinion has a wide enough base of people, generally interested in photography, to mir…

Yep. Flickr does a lot of things right in comparison: holds onto and prominently displays camera metadata (EXIF), doesn't strip your color profile, allows uploading in wide gamuts to all clients (no sRGB conversion), doesn't compress the living hell out your photo, much more lenient on photo dimensions allowed to upload which is great for panoramas (not limited to square and squarish crops), allows editing not just the post data but also the license and the image itself after upload (maybe you realized it was darker than you thought and need to make a tweak), holds onto an original copy of the upload for archival reasons (I've used in a pinch when someone needed a hi-res copy and I wasn't attached to my NAS), and the, not to gatekeep, lack of everyday phone shots made the platform great to just browse by 'interestingness' and not being slapped with memes or influenerse or low-quality stuff for your friends but not a portfolio.

Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by kome »

joecool1029 wrote: post #11
kome wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

read the post :) flickr is the company and the product, flickr foundation is about preserving flickr "Creative Commons"[1] images forever. [1] https://creativecommons.org/

> read the post :) https://archive.vn/Uw6p3 so many can do so. In the spirit of joining in on breaking HN guidelines, the page is broken with ublock origin blocking some shitty cookie popup. I could only read it in firefox reader mode, else it just dims out and locks the scroll with 'Hello World'.

with firefox it works for me. and i use ublock origin too, perhaps a more lenient version.

Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by stalkerman »

waxpancake wrote: post #33
Brajeshwar wrote: post #30

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 desig…

Your ad blocker is hiding the cookie popup.

That Cookie popup doesn't event fit on my screen! And the buttons are below the fold. What's more I can't tell if "No" or "Yes" is selected, there's no visual identifier other than a slight colour differentiation which I struggle with.

Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by secretsatan »

I just started using Flickr again, I've kept a pro account for years and years, as I didn't want to lose what I uploaded and forgot about. I wanted to share some photos from a holiday, I tried to upload an album on FB and it just didn't seem to be able to do it from the phone, madness.

I don't much use FB or instagram anymore, I go through instagram every so often, when I don't check things for months, and I scroll a few times and it tells me I caught up! FB and Instagram are mostly just sponsored or commercial posts on my feed, instagram just stops showing stuff from friends after a few scrolls, FB is maybe 1 in 3 posts are from my friends.

I share an album from Flickr and people get an ad free view of what I wanted to share, far superior.

Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by kerrsclyde »

I have a collection of >500k historic transport photographs which I have collected over the past 25 years. Some my own, some are old photographs dating back to 1900 or earlier. All are categorised / tagged.

It concerns me what will happen to them when I am gone. At the moment I have a web site where they are hosted but I don't expect my children to be able to admin that once I am no longer here.

I would be more than happy to donate it all to Flickr Commons.

Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by rrreese »

kerrsclyde wrote: post #45

I have a collection of >500k historic transport photographs which I have collected over the past 25 years. Some my own, some are old photographs dating back to 1900 or earlier. All are categorised / tagged. It concerns me what will happen to them when I am gone. At the moment I have a web site where they are hosted but I don't expect my children to be able to admin that once I am no longer here. I would be more than…

If you want them kept for posterity, upload them to (archive.org)[https://archive.org/]

Just create an account and upload them. Create a collection called `historic transport photographs` and they will live on.

Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by yakubin »

justusthane wrote: post #31
pupppet wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not being sarcastic, but have to you considered Flickr or SmugMug (the company that bought Flickr)?

Yeah, I don’t get it why people speak about it in past tense. It’s still a great service, it still has great content (better than any other TBH) and you’re not the product — it’s a service you pay for, and there are no ads.

Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by noufalibrahim »

__derek__ wrote: post #29

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…

I'm really glad that George is involved in the project. She was part of the original Flickr team AFAIK. I worked for her at the Internet Archive and later for her startup Museum in a Box. Her particular blend of skills makes her ideal in these roles where there's conservation of digital assets with a social purpose involved.

Re: The Flickr Foundation

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Post by joecool1029 »

kome wrote: post #42
joecool1029 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> read the post :) https://archive.vn/Uw6p3 so many can do so. In the spirit of joining in on breaking HN guidelines, the page is broken with ublock origin blocking some shitty cookie popup. I could only read it in firefox reader mode, else it just dims out and locks the scroll with 'Hello World'.

with firefox it works for me. and i use ublock origin too, perhaps a more lenient version.

AdGuard Annoyances list hits the match for it.
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