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I remember everyone leaving flickr for some reason yeeears ago (I don't remember the reason) As someone who is not a photographer, I only follow photographers

• bencompanion 8y ago
  Flickr has been seemingly starved of resources since Yahoo purchased it - development definitely slowed down and the performance of the service got noticeably worse. It was looking grim for a while there, so it's really hopeful that smugmug have bought it.
• dingaling 8y ago
  Instagram is like a performance show; every shot a photographer posts there is expected to have a wow-factor and generate Likes. Flickr is much more relaxed; it's not perfect ( you can't exclude photos fron the Photostream for example ) but there's less of an expectation of consistent performance. I'm happy to upload 'warranty shots' to Flickr, unexciting but interesting documentary photos.
  • WolfRazu 8y ago
    More importantly, Instagram downscales your photos to poop and bans zooming.