4 ms·

interesting...forgot about flickr. to be honest imgur and even reddituploads pretty much killed it for me.

• leviathant 10y ago
  I use Flickr's API to drive some arts related websites. I also appreciate that Flickr stores (and exposes, with your permission) EXIF data. It doesn't overcompress images, and you can access the full resolution that you upload to. I really haven't found anything else quite like it, and I would hate to see it go away. I've been paying for my pro account for the last eight years.
  • ghaff 10y ago
    SmugMug at least used to be considered a good alternative. They became less attractive after a pricing change a few years back but I haven't really looked carefully for a long time. My main requirement is that I can essentially just set up a new publishing channel from Lightroom and press "Go" (which I believe I can do with SmugMug). But, yeah, it was popular for a time to dump on Flickr because they hadn't really moved forward. But truth be told, it pretty much does the job for me the way it is and I don't want a whole bunch of social stuff dumped on it.
• chrisper 10y ago
  But imgur and reddituploads are serving a different purpose? They are both just image sharing (no one cares if it is low quality). However, Flickr is for photographers who want high quality images and EXIF info etc.
  • mevile 10y ago
    imgur is now a social network. It has long since de-emphasized being an image sharing tool. Almost all actions are now geared toward sharing images inside imgur, and not externally. They just added following and messaging capabilities. Imgur doesn't compete with flickr, it competes with reddit, twitter and facebook.