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I wouldn't take that as a Flickr competition. Flickr is more about delivering photo experience to the masses, a great platform for promoting and discovering pic

by zalew 16y ago

I wouldn't take that as a Flickr competition. Flickr is more about delivering photo experience to the masses, a great platform for promoting and discovering pictures about a certaing subject, etc. Facebook is more about sharing with your social cirle. Currently there isn't any tool able to compete with Flickr in terms of exploring content.

olegkikin 16y ago
Flickr is pretty horrible as a photo site. It's full of garbage, the options of browsing quality content are very limited. Try to get the highest rated photos of the last week/month/year, for example.
- nsfmc 16y ago
  Try to get the highest rated photos of the last week/month/year, for example. I don't really know anyone that uses flickr this way, or at least i should say that flickr is not explicitly about quantitatively accessing massive photosets. Highest rated photos, though? I don't think taste is a numerical metric. edit: superfluous asterisks
- zalew 16y ago
  What you say doesn't prove that is horrible as a photo site. Yes, you're right, exploring through 'ratings' often leads to garbage if one has some better taste in photography, as in most of photo rankings and contests on the web. That doesn't mean that it doesn't meet it's purpose as a photo sharing website. Also, besides it's native explore/search functions there are tools around flickr where you can explore photos through different parameters, try f.ex. using my buddy's tool http://fffflckr.com/ http://fffflckr.com/ it grabs 'favorites of your favorites', it's quite handy and it's easier to find sth you probably will like. I've used their API many times for some experiments, and if you feel you got a way to find great content, it'll be probably very easy to build a tool for that. That's also a great advantage of flickr.
mortenjorck 16y ago
My Flickr photos are carefully-composed shots I've taken with my DSLR that I want to share with the site's community of enthusiast photographers. My Facebook photos are quick phone snaps that I think my friends would get a kick out of. Isn't this how most people divide their use between the two services?

by zalew 16y ago

olegkikin 16y ago

Flickr is pretty horrible as a photo site. It's full of garbage, the options of browsing quality content are very limited. Try to get the highest rated photos of the last week/month/year, for example.

nsfmc 16y ago
Try to get the highest rated photos of the last week/month/year, for example. I don't really know anyone that uses flickr this way, or at least i should say that flickr is not explicitly about quantitatively accessing massive photosets. Highest rated photos, though? I don't think taste is a numerical metric. edit: superfluous asterisks
zalew 16y ago
What you say doesn't prove that is horrible as a photo site. Yes, you're right, exploring through 'ratings' often leads to garbage if one has some better taste in photography, as in most of photo rankings and contests on the web. That doesn't mean that it doesn't meet it's purpose as a photo sharing website. Also, besides it's native explore/search functions there are tools around flickr where you can explore photos through different parameters, try f.ex. using my buddy's tool http://fffflckr.com/ http://fffflckr.com/ it grabs 'favorites of your favorites', it's quite handy and it's easier to find sth you probably will like. I've used their API many times for some experiments, and if you feel you got a way to find great content, it'll be probably very easy to build a tool for that. That's also a great advantage of flickr.

mortenjorck 16y ago

My Flickr photos are carefully-composed shots I've taken with my DSLR that I want to share with the site's community of enthusiast photographers. My Facebook photos are quick phone snaps that I think my friends would get a kick out of. Isn't this how most people divide their use between the two services?