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Flickr is great. With a modest yearly fee I get unlimited storage to back up all my pictures. With one click I can generate a URL for any album to share it. Pho
by leephillips 5y ago
Flickr is great. With a modest yearly fee I get unlimited storage to back up all my pictures. With one click I can generate a URL for any album to share it. Phone pictures are backed up automatically: I take a picture, it gets copied to Flickr.
I’m not sure I understand the article. I don’t see the fact that Flickr is not Instagram to be a disadvantage.
The UI is bad and always was bad. But it’s easy to upload a whole directory of images at once, and they have an API.
MORE: Every now and then I go there just to browse the public photographs. There’s way too much over-processed fantasy-type imagery for my taste, but also invariably some great stuff, I’m always impressed by the talent of the photographers there.
- tjr225 5y agoI used to use Flickr, but iCloud storage is cheaper and more convenient.
- leephillips 5y agoDo you need to be an Apple citizen?
- colecut 5y agoGoogle photos is also pretty cheap and convenient.
- leephillips 5y agoGoogle storage is 2 TB for $100/yr. Flickr is unlimited for $72/yr.
- hiptobecubic 5y agoIMO they serve very different purposes. Google Photos has very good search and collaborative album building. The result is that you can take random photos of your life and still get value out of it later. It's not archival quality, but it's extremely accessible, which makes up for it, imo.
- marwis 5y agoWith Google Photos you can't download uncompressed/original files and exif location tags are always stripped.
- aix1 5y agoThis was surprising, so I just downloaded one of my photos from Google Photos[*] as a test. The downloaded JPEG absolutely has EXIF location metadata. [*] by pressing Shift+D
- leephillips 5y agoYikes. So it’s just, what—some kind of sharing site? That makes it useless for backup.
- aix1 5y agoI don't believe the claim about EXIF location data is accurate -- please see my comment above.
- leephillips 5y agoThat’s good, but the part about losing access to the original files, if true, is a deal-breaker.
- marwis 5y agoIn theory you can download them all via Takeout but that tends to stop working for huge image libraries. Seems like the only way might be via web scraping.
- aix1 5y agoI'm not certain that's true either (if "Original Quality" is turned on[1]) but haven't tested it. That said, I personally only use Google Photos as a sharing site and do archiving offline. [1] https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791 https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791
- dghlsakjg 5y agoI have iCloud storage hooked up to my pc for file syncing, so no
- leephillips 5y agoThe iCloud 2TB plan is $120/yr in the US. Flickr is unlimited for $72/yr. Does iCloud have an API for interacting with your images?
- KarlKemp 5y agoThere's PhotoKit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/photokit https://developer.apple.com/documentation/photokit It's somewhat different than the Flickr API, so it's hard to compare. The Flickr API is great in that it gives you access to everything a user can do on the site. It's really sad that this approach has mostly died (Instagram doesn't have any API, does it?) PhotoKit is impressive in its own way, allowing third-party apps to hook into library management and destruction-free editing. It doesn't give you much control of the synchronization with iCloud. Or, from a different perspective, the sync happens transparently in the background and doesn't need handholding.
- yesimahuman 5y agoPersonally, I don’t think Flickr is best used as an image dump or photo backup service, so it’s not apples to apples. Curating your best photos and sharing those with others as well as engaging on their best photos is where Flickr shines (i.e. the community aspect)
- ipaddr 5y agoI like the map feature. Discovering what's going on at the mokent wherever is kinda fun.