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In this article in really sounds like Catherina Fake regrets her decision of selling Flickr. It must be a very hard decision : accept 40 M$ or keep growing very
by cake 16y ago
In this article in really sounds like Catherina Fake regrets her decision of selling Flickr. It must be a very hard decision : accept 40 M$ or keep growing very personal work.
What I found interesing is that she underlines the fact that Flickr has been (is) very popular because of special circonstances, the fact that digital cameras began to be cheap and widespread, more and more people blogging...
It seems like Flickr became successful in a large part because of a lot of luck.
- petercooper 16y agoIt must be a very hard decision : accept 40 M$ or keep growing very personal work. It sounds agonizing.
- cake 16y agoWell I genuinely think that it must be a difficult decision to leave years of personal work behind, the decision making on your own project and the potential of an higher bid. But that's just my personal perspective, a more rational point of view is of course obvious. In my opinion the aquisition didn't benefit the Flickr project very much (for the users), I have the feeling that it is stagnating right now.
- brlewis 16y agoSerious question: If it's stagnating, what needs improving?
- kordless 16y agoBigger photos for one. It's painful to look at photos in the current fixed format. Have you seen the size of monitors today? In general I also find the management interface a bit awkward. Perhaps a few weekend of kill a feature are needed. I think they've tried to be all things to a rather diverse user group and have suffered b/c of it. It's still fantastic though!
- brlewis 16y agoWhat features would you keep in the management interface?