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Flickr is dead
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Re: Flickr is dead
#92The whole photo-sharing space is ripe for a massive disruptor. Photographers and enthusiasts have been drifting away from Flickr for ages, but up until now there's been no offering that's really a suitable full replacement. On the one side you have sites like SmugMug, which has an awesome API, detailed controls over your images... but is devoid of any of the social features Flickr users have grown to love (and loathe…
It's ripe for multiple disruptors. Photos are a communication medium that serves multiple purposes, just as words do. Some photos are your portfolio. Others are your memories. They call for different interactions. Flickr, Smugmug and 500px are very portfolio-oriented. Snapjoy and my site (OurDoings) are very memory-oriented. Facebook and Google+ are social-oriented. They're great for sharing what you did yesterday, b…
Flickr, Smugmug and 500px are very portfolio-oriented
Unfortunately they have this bizarre concept of a photostream in which you cannot rearrange the order of photos, and they happen in the order of upload and not the date on which they were taken.
Also, while logged in, you cannot filter your own photostream by public / family-only / private photos only. It can be quite annoying, since I have thousands of family-only photos and only dozens of public photos, so I have to log out to see how my photostream looks to outsiders.
Re: Flickr is dead
#93The whole photo-sharing space is ripe for a massive disruptor. Photographers and enthusiasts have been drifting away from Flickr for ages, but up until now there's been no offering that's really a suitable full replacement. On the one side you have sites like SmugMug, which has an awesome API, detailed controls over your images... but is devoid of any of the social features Flickr users have grown to love (and loathe…
I'm surprised nobody mentioned IMGUR yet - it is a fantastic img host - but the premium accounts allow a lot of flexibility. Albums, galleries - privacy settings etc. Plus it has mobile uploaders and is super fast and easy. At $24/year for unlimited access/features- I have dropped all others for it.
The horrifyingly stupid advertisements on imgur have made me loathe it.
It's fine for it's original purpose: anonymous reposts on reddit. It's crap for much more than that.
Albums, galleries, and privacy settings are the bare minimum. Flickr does a better job than imgur in those cases already.
Re: Flickr is dead
#94The problem with Facebook and now Google+ is that these are not specifically designed for sharing photos.
Facebook gets more photos uploaded than Flickr can ever dream of, but they are family pictures or pictures of drunken teenagers, of poor quality in general. If you want to see art, Flickr is a wonderful place to discover amateurs with talent and there's nothing out there that can beat it.
Also, I think a photo-sharing service has to have good tools for exploring said pictures. On Flickr, even if it has many flaws, it is really cool to search for pictures with a high interestingness score and then to start following the people that took them. I found some breathtaking works of art that way.
On Facebook and G+ you have to rely on your friends-feed instead for discovery, but that's not how art is supposed to be discovered.
Flickr, for all its flaws, works for its intended purpose and can only be killed by another web service that is created explicitly for photo-sharing.
Google is in a position to do that however, but with Picasa Web and not Google+, although integration would be nice.
Re: Flickr is dead
#95The whole photo-sharing space is ripe for a massive disruptor. Photographers and enthusiasts have been drifting away from Flickr for ages, but up until now there's been no offering that's really a suitable full replacement. On the one side you have sites like SmugMug, which has an awesome API, detailed controls over your images... but is devoid of any of the social features Flickr users have grown to love (and loathe…
Flickr is beyond irritating at times. I uploaded duplicate photos by mistake on Flickr and had to go through hundreds of photos one by one deleting them. There's no option to delete duplicates based on file name or file name/creation date etc. because Flickr has basically been dormant from a development standpoint for years.
There are many 3rd party apps in the Flickr App Garden that can make up for any shortfalls of the website.
For example, if you're uploading photos, an app like photoSync (http://webecoz.com) knows enough not to duplicate your photos. It will detect that it's a duplicate and use the copy that is already on Flickr.
I believe it may also recognizes duplicates when it's downloading photos.
Re: Flickr is dead
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's ripe for multiple disruptors. Photos are a communication medium that serves multiple purposes, just as words do. Some photos are your portfolio. Others are your memories. They call for different interactions. Flickr, Smugmug and 500px are very portfolio-oriented. Snapjoy and my site (OurDoings) are very memory-oriented. Facebook and Google+ are social-oriented. They're great for sharing what you did yesterday, b…
Flickr, Smugmug and 500px are very portfolio-oriented Oh, I wish Flickr were portfolio oriented. Unfortunately they have this bizarre concept of a photostream in which you cannot rearrange the order of photos, and they happen in the order of upload and not the date on which they were taken. Also, while logged in, you cannot filter your own photostream by public / family-only / private photos only. It can be quite ann…
Both of your complaints are mistaken.
You can arbitrarily reorder your photostream (not just sets, your actual photostream), and you can check the organizer to filter your photostream for only public photos.
Re: Flickr is dead
#97Thomas Hawk is a well-known Flickr hater. He keeps bashing Flickr at every chance he gets. And then he continues to use Flickr. I've been reading his "Flickr is dead" and "I hate Flickr" rants for years and years. He tried to start a competing service, but it failed miserably; so he continues to bash Flickr instead. Dude: if you don't like Flickr, don't use it. Plain and simple. And if you think you can build a bette…
He has 60,000 photos on Flickr, and 198 on Google+.
Some of his Flickr photos are against G+ ToS.
Re: Flickr is dead
#98One thing I always thought that Flickr lacked was an integrated, easy way to buy photos. I don't want to contact the photographer and wait for a reply, when I need a photo for a slide, I want to be able to buy it instantly. At this point Flickr seems like a site that just survives by inertia, nothing new seems to be done, they have pretty much accepted defeat, I guess.
It has this. The photographer needs to enable it.
Re: Flickr is dead
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flickr, Smugmug and 500px are very portfolio-oriented Oh, I wish Flickr were portfolio oriented. Unfortunately they have this bizarre concept of a photostream in which you cannot rearrange the order of photos, and they happen in the order of upload and not the date on which they were taken. Also, while logged in, you cannot filter your own photostream by public / family-only / private photos only. It can be quite ann…
Both of your complaints are mistaken. You can arbitrarily reorder your photostream (not just sets, your actual photostream), and you can check the organizer to filter your photostream for only public photos.
how do you do that?
Re: Flickr is dead
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Both of your complaints are mistaken. You can arbitrarily reorder your photostream (not just sets, your actual photostream), and you can check the organizer to filter your photostream for only public photos.
how do you do that?
One way, for example:
http://flickrstream.webzardry.com/
The key is "upload date" which is editable, and determines the order.
If you don't have a tool for it, go to your set in the organizer, sort the set as you want, go to the first photo, open the edit modal dialog, and start stepping through the photos setting the upload time to 1 second after the last. When you're done, the photo stream itself will reflect the custom order.
Sets already reflect your custom order with no extra work. Some Flickr tools (of which there are hundreds) support reordering the photo stream, using this technique under the hood.
Since everything on Flickr has an API, you can do most anything you can imagine.