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I object only on the grounds that Flickr is the only good photo site for people who really care about their photos. Having tried to use 500px for a few months,

I object only on the grounds that Flickr is the only good photo site for people who really care about their photos. Having tried to use 500px for a few months, they cannot even manage to do album privacy correctly.

zanny 11y ago
I just use imgur. Am I doing something wrong?
- ghaff 11y ago
  I don't think you're doing something wrong but I think you're doing something differently from a Flickr Pro subscriber who is using the site to store curated high quality photos online.
- EdiX 11y ago
  Imgur will aggressively recompress any image above 5MB. A few years ago it used to be even worse.
crucifiction 11y ago
SmugMug
jinst8gmi 11y ago
That, and I'd be disappointed that my email account would vanish, along with years worth of mail.
- kev6168 11y ago
  I lost 4 years' emails (1998-2002) because my account was inactive for a mere 6 months! Contacted Yahoo in 2002 but couldn't get my emails back.
  - jinst8gmi 11y ago
    Ouch! Do they have any facility that I can use to back-up/archive my email externally?
    - kev6168 11y ago
      You can guess I haven't used their services since then, not sure if they let you do that easily now.
      - jinst8gmi 11y ago
        Yes, good point :)
    - PhantomGremlin 11y ago
      I also have a Yahoo account, but i haven't tried to back it up externally. Previously their paid product was called Mail Plus, and that was the only way you could get mail out in bulk. But a while ago they made a change. From an article I just found: What Yahoo does not mention is that Pop3 access is now available as well. While I cannot say if it was enabled previously for free users, I know for a fact that it was limited in the past to paying Yahoo Mail users. That doesn't say anything about IMAP, but I know that is also possible nowadays. I think they had to add that feature. E.g. my wife accesses her Yahoo Mail from her iPhone. Without IMAP, how could she get her messages? (Rhetorical question. Rhetorical answer: she couldn't!). http://www.ghacks.net/2013/10/08/yahoo-mail-plus-turns-yahoo-ad-free-mail-relevant-changes-explained/ http://www.ghacks.net/2013/10/08/yahoo-mail-plus-turns-yahoo...
test1235 11y ago
I had such high hopes for 500px when I tried to switch over a year (I even paid upfront before fully testing it). The features just didn't compare to Flickr. On the other hand, Flickr's admin UI starting to fill up with crap I don't about, like creating mugs and books and shit. Fair enough, they're trying to make money, but that stuff has no place on the main interface. It's still the easiest place for me to store and share photos, however.

zanny 11y ago

I just use imgur. Am I doing something wrong?

ghaff 11y ago
I don't think you're doing something wrong but I think you're doing something differently from a Flickr Pro subscriber who is using the site to store curated high quality photos online.
EdiX 11y ago
Imgur will aggressively recompress any image above 5MB. A few years ago it used to be even worse.

crucifiction 11y ago

SmugMug

jinst8gmi 11y ago

That, and I'd be disappointed that my email account would vanish, along with years worth of mail.

kev6168 11y ago
I lost 4 years' emails (1998-2002) because my account was inactive for a mere 6 months! Contacted Yahoo in 2002 but couldn't get my emails back.
- jinst8gmi 11y ago
  Ouch! Do they have any facility that I can use to back-up/archive my email externally?
  - kev6168 11y ago
    You can guess I haven't used their services since then, not sure if they let you do that easily now.
    - jinst8gmi 11y ago
      Yes, good point :)
  - PhantomGremlin 11y ago
    I also have a Yahoo account, but i haven't tried to back it up externally. Previously their paid product was called Mail Plus, and that was the only way you could get mail out in bulk. But a while ago they made a change. From an article I just found: What Yahoo does not mention is that Pop3 access is now available as well. While I cannot say if it was enabled previously for free users, I know for a fact that it was limited in the past to paying Yahoo Mail users. That doesn't say anything about IMAP, but I know that is also possible nowadays. I think they had to add that feature. E.g. my wife accesses her Yahoo Mail from her iPhone. Without IMAP, how could she get her messages? (Rhetorical question. Rhetorical answer: she couldn't!). http://www.ghacks.net/2013/10/08/yahoo-mail-plus-turns-yahoo-ad-free-mail-relevant-changes-explained/ http://www.ghacks.net/2013/10/08/yahoo-mail-plus-turns-yahoo...

test1235 11y ago

I had such high hopes for 500px when I tried to switch over a year (I even paid upfront before fully testing it). The features just didn't compare to Flickr. On the other hand, Flickr's admin UI starting to fill up with crap I don't about, like creating mugs and books and shit. Fair enough, they're trying to make money, but that stuff has no place on the main interface. It's still the easiest place for me to store and share photos, however.