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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 fyngyrz on Monday April 23 2018, @04:06PM (1 child)
Mostly it works, and yes, space isn't a problem for photos. video streams, however, are limited in length and size, which is a problem for a lot of people (not me - I take still photos. The only videos I've made are very short compilations of still photos, for instance a timed series of the aurora change over several minutes.)
Flickr's been essentially static for years; in that time, many suggestions have been put forward, such as the ability to split user favorites into galleries (one for mineral specimens, one for sunsets, etc.), likewise segment groups so that images of high quality or a particular class could be showcased, non-square image note capability, precise control over what a user sees when they first enter your account other than ordered by date, better HTML support in the image descriptions, adding blogs to accounts, etc., etc.
They've also got some pretty severe problems with password management and recovery; that may have been a fudged up transition into Yahoo's domain; we'll see what happens as that's changed to Smugmug, etc. Surely they won't leave it as a Yahoo log-in. Surely. :)
I'm somewhat active on Flickr, but I don't use it as my primary image repo. There's just too much turmoil in the web space in general to trust anyone to responsibly handle data I don't want to lose. That's not just about Flickr – that's about everybody. Moving to Smugmug isn't going to change that at all.
(Score: 2) by DavePolaschek on Tuesday April 24 2018, @04:37PM
Except for the forums, which were the best part of flickr for some of us. Yahoo! killed those and I ended up shutting my whole flickr account down.
I hear Carthage used to be nice too. And Pompeii.