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The new flickr app (albeit very late) looks a whole lot better proposition then Instagram. To value Instagram at a billion dollars (well less now I guess becau
by planetjones 14y ago
The new flickr app (albeit very late) looks a whole lot better proposition then Instagram.
To value Instagram at a billion dollars (well less now I guess because of Facebook's share price) is insane. They have a serious problem with spam - every photo I upload is liked by many getM0refollowers<RandomNumber> and every photo I upload is bombarded with spam comments. They seem incapable of getting a grip on this problem.
The app also has bugs e.g. it says I have X followed but then displays X minus Y when I try to view who they are.
Its popular photos are rubbish - so there is no way to discover interesting photos other than searching for tags you're interested in. Photos with a 1000 likes appeal to the teenage market only i.e. they're not serious photos.
When you follow someone you get very large photos dominating your stream, so I don't follow many people because of this.
I really hope flickr aggresively try and take back this market. Instagram is a neat idea, but has very poor execution.
- neilk 14y agoI don't really know what Instagram is really worth, but it might have been worth a billion dollars to Facebook to keep Instagram away from Twitter. Twitter + Instagram is starting to look like a viable Facebook competitor. Although we know now that Twitter is choosing to become a walled garden with a very limited kind of service, a year ago it seemed possible for them to become a sort of internet infrastructure.
- Terretta 14y agoIf you like Flickr's new app, you may love FlickStackr.