peterm1
Veteran
I don't mind Flickr, although like you, its limitations occasionally annoy me (but all sites have them so wot ya gunna do!!??) For example I would like to see greater flexibility in the templates available to display images although having said that the one I use is at least aesthetically acceptable. Perhaps they could do this by having a wider range of templates for paying users (the pro grade members) which might induce more people to join. And adding photos to groups can be a bit painful sometimes - e.g. if a group is not accepting new images or you have exceeded your limit for the day Flickr gives an error message after you have made the attempt and kicks you back to the beginning of the list of groups. You then have to navigate back to where you left off. Neither does it warn you before you attempt to link an image to a group in those circumstances (e.g. by greying out that group in the list) so you have to go thru the whole exercise first. Which can be a pain iif there is a long list of groups you subscribe to and you have to start scrolling back to where you were before you made the attempt. Little things like that can be annoyances, I grant you.
Some things I positively do like. At the macro level I like that it creates a community of users who can see and be seen by others.
And, at the micro level, while I have not yet used it, Flickr allows the user to replace an existing image with a replacement image from the user's hard drive. This is good as occasionally after I upload an image I see something about it I would like to fix (that cannot be done using on site tools). I am not sure however how this affects the view count for that image.
Flickr's batch upload client works reasonably well and I tend to use it with FastStone photo resizer to resize my images to a suitable size for viewing on screen. (Resize first then upload using the Flickr client).
So all in all I will stick to Flickr - certainly for now. I have certainly considered setting up my own site using Wordpress, Tumblr or one of the other hosting options for blogs but I cannot imagine getting as much exposure doing this alone - perhaps as a supplement to Flickr ??!!
Some things I positively do like. At the macro level I like that it creates a community of users who can see and be seen by others.
And, at the micro level, while I have not yet used it, Flickr allows the user to replace an existing image with a replacement image from the user's hard drive. This is good as occasionally after I upload an image I see something about it I would like to fix (that cannot be done using on site tools). I am not sure however how this affects the view count for that image.
Flickr's batch upload client works reasonably well and I tend to use it with FastStone photo resizer to resize my images to a suitable size for viewing on screen. (Resize first then upload using the Flickr client).
So all in all I will stick to Flickr - certainly for now. I have certainly considered setting up my own site using Wordpress, Tumblr or one of the other hosting options for blogs but I cannot imagine getting as much exposure doing this alone - perhaps as a supplement to Flickr ??!!
