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Two photo-sharing services are teaming up, as SmugMug buys Flickr from Verizon’s digital media subsidiary Oath. USA Today broke the news and interviewed SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill, who said he hopes to revitalize Flickr . At the same time, he said he's still figuring out his actual plans: "It sounds silly for the CEO to not to totally know what he's going to do, but we haven't built SmugMug on a master plan either. We try to listen to our customers and when enough of them ask for something that's important to them or to the community, we go and build it."
[...] In an FAQ about the deal, SmugMug says it will continue to operate Flickr as a separate site, with no merging of user accounts or photos: "Over time, we'll be migrating Flickr onto SmugMug's technology infrastructure, and your Flickr photos will move as a part of this migration — but the photos themselves will remain on Flickr."
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/20/smugmug-acquires-flickr/
(Score: 2) by dublet on Monday April 23 2018, @02:01PM
As an amateur photographer, I use Flickr and do agree with you somewhat. Using the social aspect of Flickr, and in particular the groups, is a waste of time.
However, in my voyages across the Internet, I've found it to be one of the best places to store and organize my photos and then share them on places like Twitter and facilitating the sharing of my photos with other social media platforms.
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