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Why not conserve it? From the forum posting it seems like lots of users enjoyed those images, collected and organized them and whatnot. I see a use for them, bu
by martin_a 5y ago
Why not conserve it? From the forum posting it seems like lots of users enjoyed those images, collected and organized them and whatnot. I see a use for them, but it's obviously not as "shiny" as flickr would like its content to be, probably.
- CharlesW 5y ago> Why not conserve it? FWIW, the 5 million book illustrations are still on Internet Archive somewhere (the key being "somewhere"). The loss of the metadata and organization is still a shame, of course. IA is a miracle, but can be intimidating compared to Flickr.
- EarlKing 5y agoBecause that's not their job? From their perspective it's quite literally spamming up their index and impeding the intended use of the commons. Those images and all associated metadata should have been relocated to archive.org years ago. Instead it appears IA just nuked it outright without consulting anybody to see if any of it was backed up anywhere. The problem here isn't with Flickr, but the clear lack of professionalism on the part of IA in misusing others' resources and then pitching a fit when called out on it.