[HN Gopher] Flickr Foundation is building a new bridge between F...
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Flickr Foundation is building a new bridge between Flickr and
Wikimedia Commons
Author : gslin
Score : 118 points
Date : 2023-07-08 15:42 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| hahamrfunnyguy wrote:
| It's a great idea though I haven't noticed photographer friends
| sharing Flickr galleries in quite a while. Mostly they just post
| stuff to Facebook and Instagram.
| rdl wrote:
| They changed their pricing structure so it's not a good self-
| hosted-gallery alternative and lack of easy sharing/etc. make
| it higher friction than sharing sites (with far more engagement
| there). It had some tolerable workflow tools when people
| primarily used lightroom, but it's not as well integrated into
| other stuff, especially mobile phone workflows.
| latchkey wrote:
| I've been a Flickr user for what feels like decades. Even paid
| for the service for a while.
|
| These days, I get an email about once a month or so from Flickr
| telling me that my private photos are over some usage limit and
| then threatening to delete them unless I sign up for their paid
| service.
|
| I briefly tried to find my private photos so that I could
| review/delete/public them, but it wasn't obvious in the
| interface, so I gave up.
|
| Given that they have been sending me this email for what feels
| like a year now and they haven't done anything, I'm just going to
| keep ignoring the email.
|
| If they delete the photos, oh well. If not, oh well. Just seems
| like a super weird way to deal with people.
| Reptur wrote:
| Its been sold multiple times, each owner probably tightening
| the screws in order to maximize returns.
|
| Ludicorp (2004-2005) Yahoo! Inc. (2005-2017) Oath (2017-2018)
| SmugMug (2018-present)
|
| I used to use them a decade ago, they were better before. Yahoo
| was the one that started introducing limits and forcing users
| to upgrade to keep their photos accessible. Went down hill from
| there.
| citboin wrote:
| Is there a good alternative to Flickr/Smugmug and Instagram?
| aloisdg wrote:
| I would say Pixelfed. It is a federated image sharing
| platform. The code is libre (AGPL).
|
| If the main federated alternative to Twitter is Mastodon,
| the main federated alternative to instagram/flickr is
| definitely Pixelfed.
|
| https://pixelfed.org/
| Groxx wrote:
| Also worth noting: it uses ActivityPub, and Mastodon
| users (and many other systems) can see and interact with
| Pixelfed users in most ways that matter.
|
| In a lot of ways it's just a photo-optimized UI for
| ActivityPub. Which is generally a good thing.
| KineticLensman wrote:
| > Yahoo was the one that started introducing limits
|
| Yahoo. Yahoo! Yahoo broke Flickr almost overnight and then
| took several months to revert the damage. Infinite scrolling
| (no way to see someone's first uploads). Wannabe social-media
| guff. I gave up then and only keep my portfolio for
| historical reasons.
| postmodest wrote:
| I liked the forums. It used to be like any other single-
| topic forum site.
|
| Then Yahoo bought it tried to make it more like Instagram,
| and suddenly every forum was a porn spam forum.
| rfreiberger wrote:
| I recall Flickr before was free up to a certain resolution,
| at the time it was something very low like 800 pixels or less
| than 2mb. During Marissa's CEO days, they pushed Flickr and
| introduced the unlimited storage for all users. I believe
| after it was sold to Smugmug, the storage was back down to
| being limited again.
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