One must open the inspector to get the raw image url: if I can't simply right-click > save as. Very limited ability to search and filter gallery content (in order to see most-liked photos, one must search the site by user then select "sort by: interesting" from an almost hidden menu, but even then it's somewhat randomly sorted by like count Pages seem to have their own discrete loading system (some redundant web app nonsense) that often hangs indefinitely until the page is refreshed at which point it loads in ~2 seconds flat Ads injected when clicking through photos of a gallery in carousel mode However there are numerous aspects of the UI that result in a frustrating UX: The best thing about flickr as a user is that it's somewhat low-profile these days. I use flickr as a member of a community that is a very niche subset of photography which still has a home there. If there's not a way to get cash out of the system, that could avoid unintentionally turning into OnlyFans while allowing people to contribute to the community.
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I've wondered whether the answer might be something like the old-school BBS ratios: have a free tier but allow people to get more based on the cumulative number of times people look at / star your work (with some care to avoid mutual promotion rings) or gift you a Pro subscription. What they want to do is cap that: upload a few things you think about, don't use Auto-Uploadr to transfer 50GB of blurry lunch photos nobody will ever access. There's also a cultural angle: young photographers want to be able to share their work and get feedback but they may not have money - but that high-school kid uploading pictures from their photography class is potentially creating both great content and will turn into a Pro account when they have money. People love to upload photographs and see other people react favorably, and you especially want a way to share your photos with your friends and family even if they never end up uploading anything.
Speaking of Google, storage space, and that time period, here’s a comic strip I remember from back then :)įlickr has more of a social-network aspect than Dropbox: it benefits enormously from people uploading high-quality photography or, especially, offering good feedback on other people's uploads.
If Google did take inspiration from it when later creating Google Drive then maybe that’s even where they took the name for Google Drive from. > GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium. So what can we do with all that extra storage you may be wondering? What if I told you that we could use all this extra storage to act as an online hard drive for you to store files?Īnd the original page, which is still around too.
Now that is a lot of storage actually more storage than most people really need. > As many of you know, Gmail is Google's free web mail service that gives you 2+ Gigs of free storage for your email and attachments. Here’s an article from the time, and an excerpt from said article: I wonder if that system inspired Google to build Google Drive. And someone created a system to allow you to backup files from your computer onto your GMail. I remember also back when GMail first became available to people by invitation, and at the time the amount of storage you were given, while not as impressive by today’s standards, was pretty significant at the time. Still keep backups of my photos locally of course and I am ready to bail if they change it to look like Smugmug :-) They had a pretty good sale on Black Friday, so I ended up signing up for a year.
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I have OneDrive for my camera uploads (habit carried over from Windows Phone) and other private uploads, but anything I want to share publicly will go on Flickr. Plus, the overall UI for browsing an album is simple. I particularly like collections of albums and the maps of photos. That might account for the "63% of images lost" stat above.įinally, this fall I needed a photo-sharing site again and decided I still like Flickr with its shitty "new" UI better than most other sites. I wonder if they exposed only the newest 1000 public photos. I never checked to see how many were still publicly visible, though. However, in the 2 years since they announced that, all my 6000+ photos were still there. So I thought Flickr was effectively dead to me. I was never going to re-upload all my pictures if I decided to go Pro again in the future. So, I was really pissed off when they said they'd start deleting pictures instead of hiding them like the old Flickr.
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