Well I'm getting more and more used to it. There's only a couple of things I'd like flickr to change. One is to have the options to have the image title show without mousing over them, and to modify the home page where you can also have your sets show up.
After reading the "more answers about Pro account changes" link on Flickr, I would suggest that if you have a pro account now not to be too hasty in giving it up. Read it for yourself.
Right now my Smugmug account comes due in about two weeks, and that's $29 I could just assume not spend on a site that I haven't been using to its full potential in quite some time. Though I really dig the layout and the clean look to it. Plus it's easy to share out of.
As for the pricing. You mentioned their pricing going up. But, don't you get grandfathered into whatever pricing you paid when you first joined? At least I was as I'm still paying the same price I paid back whenever it was. I don't even see the same membership on their pricing tiers anymore, and everything is a lot more expensive than what I'm paying.
On the flip side, I signed up for it because I liked the unlimited bandwith and unlimited storage. However, I'm only storing approximately 2gb right now, and most of those are from a set I shot in Israel, which the subjects have downloaded a long time ago.
The 1Tb of the free account certainly is attractive at zero dollars per year, though I've always felt a little queezy about Flickr in the past.
Rags Hef wrote:
It's pretty compelling... 1TB
I think I'll move out of Smugmug. It's a good site, but their prices are going up.
It's going to be hard for them with competition like Flicker.
The Smug folks are really nice and they run a good site, I wish them luck
It kind of goes without saying that for anyone nearing 1TB there are probably 1000 users who have onky a few megabytes used, or have even forgot they had a Flickr account.
Depsite Yahoo's stock woes of late they are stil( retty flush and addi/g servers shoukdn't be too much of a strain.
InlawBiker wrote:
What a polarizing topic! I still wonder how they can give away a full TB of data per person. These are interesting times my friends.
InlawBiker wrote:
What a polarizing topic! I still wonder how they can give away a full TB of data per person. These are interesting times my friends.
lol heh polarizing, pun
Dying? Quite the contrary. Marissa Mayer has done a pretty good job at righting the ship, and Yahoo! will be arond a lot longer than anyone expected them to be considering how bad a shape they were in only a couple of years ago.
deang001 wrote:
I tried to like it but it's bloody awful !!!
It's pretty saddening as I really used to like it, but now I have hard time spending any amount of time there. It's just seems "messy" to me.
I think Yahoo basically has no idea what they are doing and are slowly dying anyway.
I which Google would just take over Yahoo and put it out of its misery Google would probably do something worthwhile with Flickr.
robertjm wrote:
Dying? Quite the contrary. Marissa Mayer has done a pretty good job at righting the ship, and Yahoo! will be arond a lot longer than anyone expected them to be considering how bad a shape they were in only a couple of years ago.
Actually, I just looked at their share price and judging from it, you are probably correct.
Let's face it... everyone is tilting their products toward social media. I recently wanted to comment on Youtube after listening to a classical piece and was taken to the signup page. I must have been a bit drowsy because I didn't realize that my choice to leave a comment on Youtube resulted in my Picasa account transposed into a Google+ account with display of photos much like what you find in the new Flickr. I immediately canceled and will be forever excluded from commenting on Youtube videos...
Like many folks who've commented on this thread, I use these photo accounts merely as a host for images I intend to share on FM. I don't send friends to my Picasa account except in rare instances. For example, I took photos for a friend of her recently completed new home. She didn't want the photos shared, so I created a private account and sent her the link.
I don't care what any of these companies do so long as they don't try to rope me into sharing photos on smart phones, pads or anywhere I don't want them to go. Call me old fashioned...
It's the only site on the net that makes my browser crash. I can load about 9 pages down of images, then wham. My cache size good enough everywhere but flikr
deang001 wrote:
Looks like they destroyed the groups now too. They gave an "Opt out" option before but that seems to have disappeared.
Nope... the groups are all still there. On your home page mouse over the "communities" link at the top and the first drop down says "Groups list" which links to your own groups page...
I actually now really like the new Flickr, once you learn the navigations, it's pretty efficient.
Google would probably do something worthwhile with Flickr.