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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Is Flickr Still Useful? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Totally-Mavica-l-2@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I would like to post photos on a site that is accessible to others but that is A) somewhat respectful of personal information (i.e. nothing owned by Facebook); and B) is not too silly looking (Imgur). Is there any good option, or is Flickr still worthwhile? I don't mind if the site charges a reasonable fee. Thank you.

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[–] robbenflosse@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Flickr is still somehow usable as it was 10 years ago.

And this is what I find super weird about it and other somehow older bigger sites like pinterest and some others who were amazing 10 years ago and since then, not really improved for the user. This is for me beyond imagination. Why, really why the F. they stopped improving for the user - if I visit these sites they are really like 10 years ago with the same problems and also benefits. It is like they dismissed all their developers 10 years ago and just had one for some marketing lipstick and nothing more. I really don't get this... why they stopped improving.

[–] mcmillen@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In Flickr's case it's because they were owned by Yahoo and basically mothballed for years because it wasn't part of Yahoo's core business.

After languishing without any changes for several years, they got bought by SmugMug a few years ago. SmugMug is a better steward than Yahoo was, but it's hard to make significant changes to a product that's essentially been in maintenance mode for a decade+ without access to the original programmers who actually knew how things worked.

[–] robbenflosse@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

hehe I am following this forever and I loved the stories around Caterina Fake.