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I recently moved out of Flickr, and into Dropbox. The only feature I miss from Flickr is tagging, but Dropbox does give me the following: * Control of Folder
by __chrismc 14y ago
I recently moved out of Flickr, and into Dropbox. The only feature I miss from Flickr is tagging, but Dropbox does give me the following:
* Control of Folder/Sub-Folder organisational structure
* Automatic web galleries, which don't look that bad, for a secondary feature
* Easy sharing of the files/galleries with family and friends
* Full control of my data - i.e. I can take it where I want, when I want
* I can use Picassa (or a choice of tools) on my Mac to do any of the fancy edits/face recognition/etc Flickr built into their UI, or as an alternative GUI. For anything more substantive I can use Pixelmator
* It works well on my mobile devices, including simple and automatic uploading
Sure, it's not free, and space isn't "unlimited"; I pay for a 50GB Dropbox account, but between referrals and other bonus space accrued over the years I'm approaching 90GB on my account. Of that I use ~15-20% for my photo library (including HD videos).
For me, the hard part was getting everything out of Flickr/iPhoto, and "de-duping" my data to make sure I wasn't uploading a bunch of duplicate files.