Flickr

Dogman said:
I've only been on Flickr a little less than a year so I have limited experience. It's fine for my purposes which is a place to display my photos so others can see them. I started using Flickr when my printer died and I refuse to buy another. My photos look better on paper but displaying them on Flickr is a decent alternative. I pay for the "Pro" level so I can post unlimited images. I'm not into social media at all so the other photo sites are not interesting to me but I like following other photographers whose work is interesting. Many of them post here on RFF.

I do admit I was hesitant to post on Flickr due to knowing of image theft from the site. That's something that can happen to anyone no matter how careful they are. And, really, there's little to be done other than spending my entire life online to search for stolen photos and then paying an attorney to write threatening letters. Oh, well, that's not for me. As for avoiding posting photos of friends, family, etc., that would restrict my photography significantly. I'm just a snap shooter and I take pictures of everything and everyone and everyone's things. Not to be an A-hole about it but once a photo is taken it becomes mine and I can do with it what I want. I'm pretty sensitive to people and I've deleted lots of photos I felt would be in poor taste or would appear to ridicule the subjects.
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Hi, hope you have release contracts with all those people, except those taken on the street.
 
I can't stand Insta. It is for mobile phone viewing of pictures. Oxymoron.
I'd rather watch photography on YT.

And on Flickr I have no problems to find good photographers.
 
Flickr is my favourite website to complain about. Nothing wrong with it but I think it has changed a lot since 2007 when I joined, the people I used to follow and have some sort of interaction with have long left it and groups appear to be luck of the draw: either over-regulated or free to damp your memory card. I think I didn't follow the way it evolved and now it feels rather impersonal to me.

I have an IG page which I update from time to time and I have a few friends and photographers that I follow but I don't spend much time there either.

When it comes to posting pictures, I prefer posting them here. I recently joined Camaraderie too which feels like a fast paced RFF (more members, more interaction). Still RFF remains my favourite place to post.
 
p.giannakis said:
Flickr is my favourite website to complain about. Nothing wrong with it but I think it has changed a lot since 2007 when I joined, the people I used to follow and have some sort of interaction with have long left it and groups appear to be luck of the draw: either over-regulated or free to damp your memory card. I think I didn't follow the way it evolved and now it feels rather impersonal to me.
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I agree with you about how flickr used to be. I joined in the mid-late 2000s and found a number of people who shared the same photographic/aesthetic interests. Some are still there, some have stopped posting, sadly. There was a sense of community among some flickr members which seems to be lacking now. But flickr remains one of the largest photography posting and semi-social sites around.
p.giannakis said:
I have an IG page which I update from time to time and I have a few friends and photographers that I follow but I don't spend much time there either.

When it comes to posting pictures, I prefer posting them here. I recently joined Camaraderie too which feels like a fast paced RFF (more members, more interaction). Still RFF remains my favourite place to post.
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Same. I was with Cameraderie from when it was Serious Compacts, and was one of its charter members in 2010. I used to be quite active on DPReview, but stopped posting a lot because of the largely unmoderated idiocy that went on. RFF is my photographic online home.
 
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Maybe it's just me but both the web version on my PC and my Flickr App on my iPhone look normal and I just re-checked both. I guess I'll know soon enough. Or maybe I'm just not perceptive unless it's really a major thing.
 
neal3k said:
Maybe it's just me but both the web version on my PC and my Flickr App on my iPhone look normal and I just re-checked both. I guess I'll know soon enough. Or maybe I'm just not perceptive unless it's really a major thing.
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They've changed the layout of the page to view individual photos on desktop:

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It's... not ideal. Not only is this an awful way to view photos, the description at the side isn't even displayed in full. I can only assume the blank space underneath the description is something my ad blocker has removed.
 
It's quite possible they're just testing the new layout on certain members, which is how they're rolled out new changes in the past.

I'm still seeing it the old way.
 
My Flickr view is the same as always.

One of the things I like about Flickr is that the images appear more detailed and sharper there than anywhere else I've viewed them online.
 
I'm getting much the same view, except that there is now a slim white border round the pics in my photostream. Most odd!
 
coogee said:
I use Flickr to curate my photos into albums to share with family and friends. I haven't found anything remotely as straightforward for that use case. I just looked and I have monthly albums of content going back to 2005.
I'm definitely always open to suggestion on something better for this use, flickr has got more and more and more expensive without adding any functionality at all, which is a shame.

Instagram and the like leave me cold, I can't see the point myself, who cares about my photos or anyone else's for that matter in a giant ocean of everything. It's like plankton in the ocean but I am OK that this is just my POV and honestly what was the point in sharing it I have no idea.
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lynnb said:
I use Flickr and I really like its keyword/tagging, and groups. I also like that I can follow photographers I like, and by looking at their favourites, find new photographers whose work interests me. I agree that it's become much more expensive without adding extra functionality. I've also had problems with unauthorised image usage (theft).

On the plus side, I've made enough from copyright sales from images ad agencies have found on my Flickr stream via keyword search, to pay for my photography hobby for the past 5 years, at least.
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I've been on Flickr since 2004 & it was really the 2nd photo-oriented social media/web site (after the much more rudimentary Fotolog) & it was the place where I 1st met many of my closest photo (& IRL) friends. Later, I used it for photo storage for digital distribution on things like blogs (remember them?), etc. Of course, other sites like Instagram, etc. eventually came along, especially after the advent of smartphones further democratized photography, & if you're chasing an audience, there will always be a shiny new product out there.

I still use Flickr as another photo backup/storage site (still a Pro User) & it essentially serves as my online archive, w/albums & portfolios of everything I've shot since I started getting into photography c.2001. I only wish I had broadband internet back in the early 2000s so that I could have uploaded everything as raw scans/files. Like lynnb, I've tagged everything, so it's super easy for me & potential customers to pull up the links & file names of photos & I've gotten quite a few photo licensing deals out of it. I don't really use the more socially-oriented Flickr features like Groups anymore, but that's mainly because I've matured in my photography & there are other places, virtual & physical, where I can discuss photos, share work, get feedback, etc. I'm too old to know or care what's "hip" or "cool" in the photo social media world anymore, but since other posters have mentioned Mastodon, I'll throw out another platform: Discord, which is big w/gamers & other tech folks. Like Mastodon, it has "servers" for different interest groups (beyond coding & gaming), including photography; local to me, there's 1 for film photography that's pretty active at arranging workshops & gatherings & it's been nice to meet the latest generation of film shooters & camera nerds (including some rangefinder users).
 
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