Is Flickr circling the drain
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I've never used Flickr, so I'm asking...
What's the benefit of using it over OneDriver for example? I can store them there automatically. I can view my photos and everything album style and easily, what does Flickr provide above that to make photo and video storage better?
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@Obsolesce said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
What's the benefit of using it over OneDriver for example?
Rather a bit...
- Standard web interface
- Huge archive of pics as it was the first app of its kind, so entrenched
- Public, searchable viewing
- Extreme meta data capabilities (this is where modern tagging was invented) with public display
- Automatic and simple licensing management
- Automated image resizing and retrieval
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So for example...
If I use another service how do I get my images to have publicly searchable tags, location, maps, titles, descriptions and discussion?
If I use another service how to I tell people I meet how to view them? My Flickr you can just look up my username.
Because of the licensing and communications system built into Flickr, companies reach out to me for permission, licensing or payment to use my images commercially. My work has been used in websites, travel books, television (MTV), corporate marketing, etc. because of its availability on Flickr.
Things like that.
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@scottalanmiller said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
So for example...
If I use another service how do I get my images to have publicly searchable tags, location, maps, titles, descriptions and discussion?
If I use another service how to I tell people I meet how to view them? My Flickr you can just look up my username.
Because of the licensing and communications system built into Flickr, companies reach out to me for permission, licensing or payment to use my images commercially. My work has been used in websites, travel books, television (MTV), corporate marketing, etc. because of its availability on Flickr.
Things like that.
I see, good to know.
In my case, I don't want anything public, so I suppose it's not needed.
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@Obsolesce said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@scottalanmiller said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
So for example...
If I use another service how do I get my images to have publicly searchable tags, location, maps, titles, descriptions and discussion?
If I use another service how to I tell people I meet how to view them? My Flickr you can just look up my username.
Because of the licensing and communications system built into Flickr, companies reach out to me for permission, licensing or payment to use my images commercially. My work has been used in websites, travel books, television (MTV), corporate marketing, etc. because of its availability on Flickr.
Things like that.
I see, good to know.
In my case, I don't want anything public, so I suppose it's not needed.
Right, to just be picture storage or backup, OneDrive is great. As is Google Drive. Flickr is specifically an image sharing, tagging, licensing, and publishing platform. It's purpose is for your pictures to interact with the public, not to hold them for you personally.
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@scottalanmiller said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@Obsolesce said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@scottalanmiller said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
So for example...
If I use another service how do I get my images to have publicly searchable tags, location, maps, titles, descriptions and discussion?
If I use another service how to I tell people I meet how to view them? My Flickr you can just look up my username.
Because of the licensing and communications system built into Flickr, companies reach out to me for permission, licensing or payment to use my images commercially. My work has been used in websites, travel books, television (MTV), corporate marketing, etc. because of its availability on Flickr.
Things like that.
I see, good to know.
In my case, I don't want anything public, so I suppose it's not needed.
Right, to just be picture storage or backup, OneDrive is great. As is Google Drive. Flickr is specifically an image sharing, tagging, licensing, and publishing platform. It's purpose is for your pictures to interact with the public, not to hold them for you personally.
Well, in that case, definitely not a platform for me.
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@JaredBusch said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@Dashrender said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
Which reminds me.. time to pull those pictures out of there and into google.
That was sarcasm right?
Nope, wife did this like 6 years or more ago. She wanted an easy way to share pictures with family - that's what she found. Though the idea of them being completely public - nope, not on her mind, or desire.
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@Dashrender said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@JaredBusch said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@Dashrender said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
Which reminds me.. time to pull those pictures out of there and into google.
That was sarcasm right?
Nope, wife did this like 6 years or more ago. She wanted an easy way to share pictures with family - that's what she found. Though the idea of them being completely public - nope, not on her mind, or desire.
More along the lines of Google will simply shut off the service
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@JaredBusch said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@Dashrender said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@JaredBusch said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@Dashrender said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
Which reminds me.. time to pull those pictures out of there and into google.
That was sarcasm right?
Nope, wife did this like 6 years or more ago. She wanted an easy way to share pictures with family - that's what she found. Though the idea of them being completely public - nope, not on her mind, or desire.
More along the lines of Google will simply shut off the service
That's what I was thinking, too. That's not a money maker for them, exactly the kind of thing that just vanishes one day.
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@JaredBusch said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@Dashrender said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@JaredBusch said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@Dashrender said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
Which reminds me.. time to pull those pictures out of there and into google.
That was sarcasm right?
Nope, wife did this like 6 years or more ago. She wanted an easy way to share pictures with family - that's what she found. Though the idea of them being completely public - nope, not on her mind, or desire.
More along the lines of Google will simply shut off the service
yeah, I hear ya - so what? OD then? I don't want to stand up a NC for this.
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On that subject..... time to do something about my phone photos.
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@JaredBusch said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
On that subject..... time to do something about my phone photos.
I use prime photos. You can also upload RAW images which just count as regular images so it's also free with Prime.
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I have the NC app on my iPhone and it has been working great at syncing my photos. I have an "iPhone upload" folder on my NC. I do need to upgrade my iCloud storage too though.
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They just sent this...
We’re writing to inform you that effective today, the price of Flickr Pro subscriptions has increased to:
1 month: $6.99, plus tax
3 month: $18.99, plus tax
1 year: $59.99, plus tax
2 year: $117.99, plus tax -
So this looks promising...
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@scottalanmiller said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
So this looks promising...
17 years and I never even of them.
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@scottalanmiller said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
So this looks promising...
Damn, their hosted solution is pricey!
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@Dashrender said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@scottalanmiller said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
So this looks promising...
Damn, their hosted solution is pricey!
You are looking at the ENTERPRISE product for businesses. Look at the one for people.
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@black3dynamite said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@scottalanmiller said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
So this looks promising...
17 years and I never even heard of them.
Me either, but never looked, either. I'm thinking that I might go to this, though.
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@scottalanmiller said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@Dashrender said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
@scottalanmiller said in Is Flickr circling the drain:
So this looks promising...
Damn, their hosted solution is pricey!
You are looking at the ENTERPRISE product for businesses. Look at the one for people.
Good call
