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"People loved — I mean loved! – Flickr" This is true for me. Flickr was the first web service I paid for, and I still do. It really was a generational leap at
by lancefisher 14y ago
"People loved — I mean loved! – Flickr"
This is true for me. Flickr was the first web service I paid for, and I still do. It really was a generational leap at the time. Photos were meant to be shared, and they nailed it. Tagging and tag clouds, folksonomy, embeddable badges - these were all fresh back then and they worked well. If only they would have added the ability to tag friends early on, I think it could have taken the place of some social networks.
I really do hope flickr becomes the next flickr. I keep putting my photos there, because I like to have them in one place. However, I do have to admit that sharing them on facebook creates much more interaction and fun.
- bad_user 14y agoI used to backup my photos on Flickr, but Flickr is awful for backups. You can't upload lengthy videos, you can't backup your raw files, retrieving your whole collection back from Flickr is extremely painful, etc... So recently I'm switching to Google Drive for my backup needs.
- aes256 14y agoI know a lot of people who also used flickr primarily as a backup solution. Sharing their photos with strangers on the Internet was always a secondary motivation. This may, at least in part, explain flickr's gradual decline. In the age of cheap 3TB hard drives, 64GB SD cards, and cloud backup solutions, flickr seems a little old-hat.
- lancefisher 14y agoI use it as a backup, and catalog. I still have my photos on my hard drive, but I know if it dies they'll be on flickr still. This was more important to me before I had dropbox. Flickr also serves as a great cataloging tool. It's quicker for me to find a photo by tag on flickr than to find it locally.