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The more variety, the better! Apparently a lot of people love Unsplash, but how many... (1) mountainscapes (2) cityscapes (3) fields (4) pretty girls stand

The more variety, the better! Apparently a lot of people love Unsplash, but how many... (1) mountainscapes (2) cityscapes (3) fields (4) pretty girls standing in fields, and (5) coffeshop patrons typing away on powered-off MacBooks ... does the world really need? Especially when they all come with washed-out Instagram filters pre-applied.

shash7 10y ago
Seriously. It has almost become a cliche now.
eitally 10y ago
I started a curated-link daily news roundup a couple months ago and the plethora of #5 was perfect for what I'd named "breakfast reading". :)
pavlov 10y ago
It's interesting to watch how what was considered good taste a short time ago is gradually becoming tired, cliché, phoney -- and in 10 years will look as outdated as 2003's web designs look now. The software industry and startup scene is enormously fashion-driven. A lot of people like to pretend it's the opposite though: a group of ideal meritocracies building highly needed products based on rational data-driven decisions...
- jimhefferon 10y ago
  It is as though people were just responding, unthinkingly, to some stimulus.
- jbpetersen 10y ago
  Staying fashionable for a given context is a fantastic means of signaling that you're well connected. Even more so if you kick off a new trend. Fashion based signals then inevitable degrade as they become more mainstream and are replaced by whatever hot new thing that's different enough to avoid confusion with other trends. Even an ideal meritocracy requires abstractions for efficient communication.
vidarh 10y ago
Given how often the same images gets reused, given that I regularly recognise many of the popular Unsplash images all over the place these days, clearly we need a lot more variety.
msl09 10y ago
As an hobbyist artist I can never get enough free references for drawing.
- gypsy_boots 10y ago
  > an hobbyist I know this is grammatically correct (and I often try to use it), but something in my brain always struggles with 'an' preceding 'h' words.
  - tomcam 10y ago
    As an historian of English grammar, I feel your pain.
  - dmos62 10y ago
    Don't pronounce the h in cases like these. An obbyist.
pierrec 10y ago
My quick-n-dirty benchmark for measuring the exhaustiveness of a stock photo website is how many photos I can find of man laughing alone with fruit salad. One of the staples of corporate promotional photography. In this case, 0. Without looking too hard, Getty has 39. Of course, the quality of the search engine and tag database also plays into these results.

shash7 10y ago

Seriously. It has almost become a cliche now.

eitally 10y ago

I started a curated-link daily news roundup a couple months ago and the plethora of #5 was perfect for what I'd named "breakfast reading". :)

pavlov 10y ago

It's interesting to watch how what was considered good taste a short time ago is gradually becoming tired, cliché, phoney -- and in 10 years will look as outdated as 2003's web designs look now. The software industry and startup scene is enormously fashion-driven. A lot of people like to pretend it's the opposite though: a group of ideal meritocracies building highly needed products based on rational data-driven decisions...

jimhefferon 10y ago
It is as though people were just responding, unthinkingly, to some stimulus.
jbpetersen 10y ago
Staying fashionable for a given context is a fantastic means of signaling that you're well connected. Even more so if you kick off a new trend. Fashion based signals then inevitable degrade as they become more mainstream and are replaced by whatever hot new thing that's different enough to avoid confusion with other trends. Even an ideal meritocracy requires abstractions for efficient communication.

vidarh 10y ago

Given how often the same images gets reused, given that I regularly recognise many of the popular Unsplash images all over the place these days, clearly we need a lot more variety.

msl09 10y ago

As an hobbyist artist I can never get enough free references for drawing.

gypsy_boots 10y ago
> an hobbyist I know this is grammatically correct (and I often try to use it), but something in my brain always struggles with 'an' preceding 'h' words.
- tomcam 10y ago
  As an historian of English grammar, I feel your pain.
- dmos62 10y ago
  Don't pronounce the h in cases like these. An obbyist.

pierrec 10y ago

My quick-n-dirty benchmark for measuring the exhaustiveness of a stock photo website is how many photos I can find of man laughing alone with fruit salad. One of the staples of corporate promotional photography. In this case, 0. Without looking too hard, Getty has 39. Of course, the quality of the search engine and tag database also plays into these results.