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Speaking from the perspective of the photography-enthusiast category, I've been coming to the conclusion that Google+ may become the next Flickr. It has first-

Speaking from the perspective of the photography-enthusiast category, I've been coming to the conclusion that Google+ may become the next Flickr. It has first-class communications features that Flickr has always sorely needed. Commenting isn't a tiny box at the bottom with awful pagination, you can upvote posts as well as comments, and it has group sharing capabilities well beyond "add to pool". The photo upload process is also far superior to Facebook, and the photo viewing experience is superior also when it comes to high-resolution, high-quality compression that many photographers desire. Facebook butchers uploads with awful compression artifacts. I've been seeing a lot of amateur and professional photographers flock towards G+ - doubly so since the launch of Communities. Personally, I like using Google+ to talk photography a hell of a lot more than I like to on Flickr. That might be telling.

fakeer 14y ago
It(g+) may not not become next Flickr. Mostly because G+ is everything or at least trying to be so and Flickr was(and is) mostly photos and photos only(I mean they added videos but let's not talk about that).
bad_user 14y ago
I wanted to say the same thing. Google+ has a lot of going for it when it comes to photography. Skipping over the UI, which is really, really good for photography consumption (have you seen the iPad app? it's beautiful), Google+ has one freakishly big advantage when comparing it with Facebook or Flickr that goes unmentioned: Google Drive - because IMHO, online backup and carrying your huge collection wherever you go, on whatever device, are far more valuable for photographers than sharing.
wyclif 14y ago
What do you think are the best photography Communities now on G+?
buro9 14y ago
I almost agreed... then I moved from Windows to Ubuntu and the lack of Picasa blew all value clean out of the water as the basic syncing, permissioning and tagging became unnecessarily difficult.

fakeer 14y ago

It(g+) may not not become next Flickr. Mostly because G+ is everything or at least trying to be so and Flickr was(and is) mostly photos and photos only(I mean they added videos but let's not talk about that).

bad_user 14y ago

I wanted to say the same thing. Google+ has a lot of going for it when it comes to photography. Skipping over the UI, which is really, really good for photography consumption (have you seen the iPad app? it's beautiful), Google+ has one freakishly big advantage when comparing it with Facebook or Flickr that goes unmentioned: Google Drive - because IMHO, online backup and carrying your huge collection wherever you go, on whatever device, are far more valuable for photographers than sharing.

wyclif 14y ago

What do you think are the best photography Communities now on G+?

buro9 14y ago

I almost agreed... then I moved from Windows to Ubuntu and the lack of Picasa blew all value clean out of the water as the basic syncing, permissioning and tagging became unnecessarily difficult.