Flickr account changes announced

[phrons]

There isn't anything easier and better yet.

When you guys find something, let me know.

Until then it's flickr and instagram for me.

 

[Sarcophilus Harrisii]

I can't understand what the fuss is about.
We`re on a forum discussing five grand cameras and lenses and all Flickr wants is thirty eight quid a year for what is a bloody good service .

I think its more than reasonable.

I wouldn't mind paying for a pro account if this was true. But it's not. Pages don't load, images don't upload, don't appear when they have, tags don't add correctly via some mobile devices, the site is slow to load pages. All these problems, and more, I've experienced multiple times in recent weeks or months. If they are serious about getting free members to convert to pro, a very good start would be a site that's stable, free of glitches, and loads faster because if I am going to pay for something, I expect it to work properly. It's not a product I can return to store if it doesn't work, so it had better work or I won't buy it.

 

[Michael Markey]

The service must be vairiable as I haven’t encountered those problems
It’s true that under the last regime there was loading difficulties but they seem to have been solved and the feedback is much quicker now if there are any problems.
However even taking that into account I feel the positives still outweigh any of that and thirty eight quid isn’t exactly a lot to pay for what you do get .
I costs me that to fill the car with petrol and that`s every week 🙂

 

[Sarcophilus Harrisii]

The service must be vairiable as I haven’t encountered those problems
It’s true that under the last regime there was loading difficulties but they seem to have been solved and the feedback is much quicker now if there are any problems.
However even taking that into account I feel the positives still outweigh any of that and thirty eight quid isn’t exactly a lot to pay for what you do get .
I costs me that to fill the car with petrol and that`s every week 🙂

Although there have been a great deal of negative feedback postings and general whinging in the site's help forum to sift through in recent days, if you scroll through just a few pages from the last week or two, you'll find plenty of reports about various site problems which are either new or ongoing.
https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/

I hope the new owners manage to improve the quality of user experience for Flickr members. It's still the only image site I take much interest in, and I like to stay in touch with what a reasonably small number of other people (many of them, RFF members) are doing with their imaging. I tried Instagram for a few weeks, and really disliked certain aspects of the site's culture. So I would hate to see Flick fall over. After about nine years of membership I still have under 600 images on the site so the changes announced won't imminently affect me, personally but would be sorry to see some of the people I follow, leave it.
Cheers
Brett

 

[Michael Markey]

Brett

Yes it still needs to slicker (if that`s the word).
I use Instagram but its very different …. less info and I don`t get the hashtag thing. 🙂

Michael

 

[bulevardi]

I use Instagram but its very different …. less info and I don`t get the hashtag thing. 🙂

I had to get used to Instagram in the beginning too. I know others who don't get it either.

People use it for different reasons. I notice different type of people, feel free to add one if I missed some:
- Family people to share it within their family and friend zones.
- Photographers and people only interested in photography
- Bloggers, influencers, fashionista-wannabes, semi-celebrities and people who want to get paid by companies.
- Companies, from self-employed to large companies, promoting their work and products.
- People who are in between or combine all these categories.

There are a lot of people only chasing for visibility, for likes, for followers.
There are a lot of people who don't care about it or only give access to a private group of people.
Some use all hashtags possible, others never use hashtags, it's a matter of choice.

For hashtags, Instagram shows 2 categories. First the "top posts", a series of pictures that should be the most beautiful or relevant. Then "most recent".
There are a lot of people who want to get in the top posts section for certain hashtags, to get picked up by collectives or curated groups.
And they don't always get their pictures there by posting good photos, but sometimes only by choosing good hashtags, posting on the right moment of the day, tagging the right people, ...

Some minor notes... the geo-location, you can claim the photo is taken in Berlin, while you shot it in Paris, for example.
And the endless discussion of people shooting with a DSLR in RAW, editing everything, and upload it afterwards to instagram with a smartphone, Versus the people that only shoot straight from the smartphone and claim to do no editing because it's not right or an "instant" moment.

The positive things I noticed with Instagram is that you can easily get in contact with people from specific neighbourhoods, shooting the same locations, connect and collaborate together. The live chat function,... I've met a few people this way in real life, because of Instagram, never had this before with Flickr. You could have this with Flickr, but less direct and on a more long term base.

 

[Out to Lunch]

My main issue with Instagram is that it is owned by Facebook.

 

[David Hughes]

Perhaps the dissidents should get together and open a rival called slickr?

It has been known before for customers to club together and open a rival service/shop/whathaveyou...

Regards, David

 

[Michael Markey]

Thanks for that Bulevardi ….. more complex than I thought.
My intention for joining was simply to have an alternative to Flickr and have somewhere to post my non sports shots.
It struck me immediately though that Instagram was geared to getting noticed .

 

[robert blu]

My main issue with Instagram is that it is owned by Facebook.

+1

robert

 

[ForestCap]

Flickr is SLOW on mobile most of the time. By culling those accounts that don't participate lie other Pro accounts do, or culling those people that don't really like Flickr enough to pay for it - then perhaps this may increase the speed and user experience a notch.

I think Internet worked like that in 1998, but not today.

Also, using an online service alone in 2018 IS paying them. There is money where there is traffic.

 

[olifaunt]

I think you misunderstood. I know Flickr isn't dead (many of those photos uploaded are mine), but I was talking about Flickr as a community (which seems to be what SmugMug is interested in), not a photo hosting site.

The Flickr community is either dead or very, very ill. The groups that used to be a fantastic place for photographic discussion 5-10 years ago see almost no traffic now.

Groups change over time, though, and there are newer ones that are quite active. Groups are a bit like hashtags on Instagram, so if you look at Instagram activity on hashtags from 5 years ago, you might also conclude Instagram is dying. I mostly don't bother with unmoderated groups, a lot of which are very neglected.

 

[olifaunt]

The last year(s), I have less and less engagement on my photos on Flickr, I noticed a lot of people walked away that time the new CEO was there and a lot of fuzz was going on ... The service remained the same though... but less people where viewing/liking/commenting since then.
Certainly last year, don't know what's going on... almost no activity. .

Bugs bugs bugs. For example, recently the feed was down pretty much worldwide for a full day, and smaller outages happen multiple times a day. They had better fix bugs with existing software before starting to charge premium. Flickr has become so buggy that I often can't see the feed or like my friends' images. The mobile interface is slightly better maintained but the desktop browser interface is so extremely buggy and unfunctional it has become a bad joke.

 

[Out to Lunch]

Bugs bugs bugs.

Weird. I use Flickr daily -desktop, without any problems.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I think Internet worked like that in 1998, but not today.

Also, using an online service alone in 2018 IS paying them. There is money where there is traffic.

It is much more simple. Any page with high resolution images is going to be slow. Flickr came before iPhone and supporting high resolution. RFF page with big sized images also slow. Any page like this.
Insta was iPhone app, doesn't have high res images and it is for something I still don't understand. To look at images on the phone...

 

[jawarden]

For me it’s worth the price paid. Cheaper than Photobucket and a much higher quality service.

 

[willie_901]

My main issue with Instagram is that it is owned by Facebook.

Good point!

 

[Fraser]

is there a fast way to delete pics, as I have a lot of pics that could easily be removed to get me below 1000?

 

[sem]

In the line info stream groups etc the last one "in german it is called aufnahmen" if you locked in, don´t know what is called in engish maybe record you get little thumbnails, easily marked and you will be asked what to do with them, remove ready.
Hope it will help, not so secure in english.

is there a fast way to delete pics, as I have a lot of pics that could easily be removed to get me below 1000?

 

[sem]

My first thought was, go away, they can not change the rules.
But it is a free service!
And I like to show some of my pictures that is why I choose flickr, my Blog no one is interested in. Still 1000 are remaining free, so I started to delete, the older ones nobody take a look at them. I can still share with the forum here and post on flickr and get some feedback and give some feedback, still have not to pay.
Thanks to flickr!