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> then yahoo/smugmug killed it I understand the Yahoo part, but what do you mean with smugmug? My impression was that they bought it and "revived" it but I mig

by dewey 8mo ago

> then yahoo/smugmug killed it I understand the Yahoo part, but what do you mean with smugmug? My impression was that they bought it and "revived" it but I might misremember the history there.

tclancy 8mo ago
They bought it but the revival was just the corpse moving around from heavy handed cpr attempts. It still lives thanks to the guy from Pinboard, but only as an archive really.
- dewey 8mo ago
  Are you confusing Flickr with Delicious (Which was what Pinboard guy bought from Yahoo) or am I missing something?
  - tclancy 8mo ago
    Sorry, pronoun confusion, definitely meant delicious.
- kome 8mo ago
  you are confused :) you are thinking about del.icio.us flickr is alive and well
antonyh 8mo ago
Revived might be too strong a word, it's still a shadow of what it used to be. Besides, wasn't it Smugmug that introduced the 1000 photo limit for free users? I too could be misremembering here.
- dewey 8mo ago
  I'd say that's hardly the fault of the acquisition but more the change of the landscape for photo communities. Everyone moved to Instagram and online storage space alone isn't such a big selling point any more as everyone has their image in Google Photos / iCloud already. That's like saying Tumblr/MySpace got ruined by acquisitions, in reality people just moved on to other platforms like it always happens with social networks over time.