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Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

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Re: Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

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Post by karel-3d »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #9

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…

If you didn't pay recently, they deleted most of your photos anyway.

They deleted all but the newest 100 or so for the free accounts

Re: Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

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Post by prox »

gopalv wrote: post #38

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 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.

Re: Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

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Post by Tomte »

etra0 wrote: post #2

Lately I've been enjoying photography a lot but Flickr never clicked for me. Instagram nowadays is almost unusable for this as it prioritizes reels too much and 500px... I liked that one more than Flickr. Right now, I'm using glass.photo and I actually quite like it. You have to pay, though, which is a high entrance barrier, but I feel the quality of what I see in the site is great, the platform works nicely and the…

I just tried glass.photo. It doesn‘t allow to upload more than 10 photos at once, and if you upload 2 or more you have to put them in a so-called series (like an album?).

Re: Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

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Post by QuantumNomad_ »

ajdude wrote: post #7

I've been a pro member for many years, with about 35k photos uploaded. I am grateful that they have never chased the engagement bait. Some people like to complain about the Pro features but I found them to be absolutely fair and I wanna do everything I can to support this platform. All of my photos are automatically synced to Flickr via the Auto uploader, and getting things from my camera to Flickr is as simple as tr…

> My single complaint with Flickr is simply that they won't provide a markdown embed code that works exactly like HTML embed, but that's pretty low of a complaint.

fwiw, a lot of markdown parsers allow some amount of HTML also.

Pasting a html img tag into your markdown documents might work, depending on which parser is used.

Re: Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

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Post by procaryote »

khazhoux wrote: post #58
alex1138 wrote: post #12

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

> Zuck purely bought it to murder competition in the crib That makes no sense. It’s very obviously been nurtured and grown by orders of magnitude since acquisition.

Turning it into a copy of facebook

Re: Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

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Post by tiffanyh »

onethumb wrote: post #33

Hey, owner & CEO here. Reading this now, but AMA.

FYI - I loved reading your blog posts ~20 years ago about how you were building your server infrastructure (hardware, dedicated, onprem, etc).

If any more recent post exist on similar topics, I’d be fascinated to read more.

https://don.blogs.smugmug.com/

Re: Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

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Post by overfeed »

GaryBluto wrote: post #32
mystraline wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How hard is it to understand "I want to share what Ive done, but I dont want predatory companies taking my work, profiting on it, and offering absolutely nothing in return."

Do you think that if you write a book directly inspired by another you should be required to pay the author of the book that inspired you?

That's a false equivalence. Humans occasionally cause food poisoning at potlucks, and it's self-evident why we should hold McDonald's to a much higher standard due to the sheer scale of harm it can cause. A human, even when hopped up on stimulants, can't do a fraction of what a corporations with whole data centers can do.

Re: Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

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Post by mullingitover »

karel-3d wrote: post #61
Brajeshwar wrote: post #9

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…

If you didn't pay recently, they deleted most of your photos anyway. They deleted all but the newest 100 or so for the free accounts

As a subscriber for something like two decades I respect them for being sober businesspeople and keeping the platform alive for paying customers, rather than dumping losses for growth hacks and then ending up a smoking crater.

Re: Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

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Post by GaryBluto »

emkoemko wrote: post #51
GaryBluto wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> bullshit generators Do you call operating systems "malware enablers"?

i don't understand you want us to be happy that they take our work? so that their machine can reproduce it?

"They" don't "take your work", your work is still there, and it only reproduces said work in the way that anybody writing a fantasy novel inspired by Lord of the Rings is plagiarizing Lord of the Rings.
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