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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: 4, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Monday April 23 2018, @04:18PM
Last I looked, Instagram didn't have a desktop client, not even through a web browser. Has that changed, or are they still stuck in an "I shot it with my phone" universe?
It's a fairly rare photo out of a phone that makes me go "wow, that's great." Phone cameras have gotten at least somewhat good at photography; but most phone users have not. Which hasn't stopped them from flooding the photo sites (including Flickr) with uploaded "selfies", drunk photos, etc. As Instagram has specialized in these, I tend to think of Instagram as the trailer park of photography as compared to Flickr, which is at least like a not-too-dilapadated suburb with some trailer parks scattered around in it. :)
Instagram could perhaps climb up in my perception of them if they supported some desktop clients and encouraged some additional participation. There's always hope...