I have no way of knowing for sure, but I was keeping a close eye on how we did in terms of web traffic at the time, especially when Flickr showed up on the scen

I have no way of knowing for sure, but I was keeping a close eye on how we did in terms of web traffic at the time, especially when Flickr showed up on the scene, deviantART was in it's peak in 2005, we'd just released dAmn and started putting ajax on the website in a serious way, and release prints in 2006, I can't believe in 2007 Flickr was doing more volume than DeviantART, but it could be true, and I don't really have a way to know for sure, so for sure an anecdote. I know Chris the CTO at the time kicks around HN, maybe he'll chime in. I shouldn't have used never, I don't really know what happened after 2011+, but at least I'd be willing to challenge 2007, but only based on my memory. Edit: Probably another strike against my claim is they said dedicated photo share sites, and dA was an art community, I still suspect the photo gallery at the time was doing more than flickr combined, also, Flickr had it's fair share of Yiffy and Furries during that period.