Have Flickr gone mad ?

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I looks like I am now logged out of Flickr
Option 1 £74 for one year
Option 2 £124 for 2 years

WOW what the hell :oops: :$ :eek:

Where else can I store the few images I have and how do I move them ?
Thanks in advance

This price is daylight robbery.
 
Looks like there's a bug on the home page.
I'm not sure that there is anything comparable with Flickr any cheaper.
 
Have you tried pausing any adblockers you have? Flickr wouldn't let me in with adblockers recently.
 
How few is few? With Flickr you get 1000 photos for free I believe. Another alternative if you would use the other benefits is Amazon Photos which comes free with a Prime membership and has unlimited photo storage including RAWs. Might not be any cheaper than Flickr (not sure as I haven't checked for any deals) but you do get Streaming and Prime delivery.

I'm logged out of Flickr as well, seems to be a global thing at the moment. The phone app still works for me currently.
 
I had problems with flickr pages not loading and being unable to access my pictures last week, but later this week it seemed to be working again.
 
Try This

If you click on Flickr (top left) or You (next to it) it should get you in to your home page normally. That's what I did this morning and it worked on both of my iPads.
 
RyanB said:
How few is few? With Flickr you get 1000 photos for free I believe. Another alternative if you would use the other benefits is Amazon Photos which comes free with a Prime membership and has unlimited photo storage including RAWs. Might not be any cheaper than Flickr (not sure as I haven't checked for any deals) but you do get Streaming and Prime delivery.

I'm logged out of Flickr as well, seems to be a global thing at the moment. The phone app still works for me currently.
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We use Prime for family photos and videos. No issues with it at all but I have Prime membership also, which makes it free for us. Worth looking into though as it can store the RAW files as RyanB states and irc around 5 GB of video for free.
 
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Adamcski said:
We use Prime for family photos and videos. No issues with it at all but I have Prime membership also, which makes it free for us. Worth looking into though as it can store the RAW files as RyanB states and irc around 5 GB of video for free.
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Recently re-started my Prime membership after a long time and your post got me checking ... my photos going back to 2018 are still all there, even after leaving Prime!
 
I was logged out. Delete your flickr cookies and have another go from the main flickr link on the left of the main page. Works ok for me now.
 
Now I cancelled my subscription I have the 1000 option
I am a Prime user so may look at that.
 
F1.2 said:
I looks like I am now logged out of Flickr
Option 1 £74 for one year
Option 2 £124 for 2 years

WOW what the hell :oops: :$ :eek:

Where else can I store the few images I have and how do I move them ?
Thanks in advance

This price is daylight robbery.
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It was an outage today with the login system. That being said, I get a popup every time I go to any flickr page asking me to become a "paid pro" - because I'm "already engaged"

I pay for Glass.photo - not sure Flickr is worth it personally.
 
I got in by clicking on the subscribe to pro link. Once there it recognised that I was already subscribed and I could navigate freely across the site, and after logging out I can get straight back in.

Might be a problem with the welcome page.
 
Clive K said:
I got in by clicking on the subscribe to pro link. Once there it recognised that I was already subscribed and I could navigate freely across the site, and after logging out I can get straight back in.

Might be a problem with the welcome page.
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I saved a bookmark of my Camera roll screen & nearly always use that to go to Flickr.

've not visited the welcome screen in years!
 
gramps said:
Does Glass allow you to link to forums like TP, as Flickr does?
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This is linked from Glass.Photo, which I am trying out, but not tried a link until now.


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gramps said:
Does Glass allow you to link to forums like TP, as Flickr does?
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I haven't seen any functionality similar to the BB code and so on and I haven't tried hosting a glass saved image on another platform....so short answer, no clue

It's an algorithm free, clutter free high quality experience though.
 
gramps said:
How do you find it - pros/cons?
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I haven't really done very much with it, and I don't think I'm their ideal customer, as I'm not looking for somewhere to interact with other members. I just want somewhere quick and easy to dump some photographs where I can send people to look at them.

Glass.photo has a Capture One plugin (which works well), and this was the draw for me.

The photographs are displayed well, and you can create series (this is new, and just seems to be what I would call albums) along with photographs appearing chronologically.

There are a lot of very good photographers on it, and unlike Flikr where a lot of people obviously just dump their snapshots (as well as high quality photographs) the feelings I get from Glass, is that people are only showing their best work. This makes it a great place to browse, but a bit intimidating for what I wanted to use it for.

It's still a relatively new platform, and the three people who run it (its based in the Netherlands) have made the decision to not make use of any external funding, which means development is a bit slow.

it's perfectly workable, but I also feel it's a bit rough around the edges. For example, expanding an image to full size makes it flush with the edge of the screen with no border, which looks odd to me. On my test uploads, I ended up going to the hassle of adding a white border to images before uploading.

I have also found it a little confusing, for example, I thought I had marked all my trial uploads as private (because they were just random images I happened to upload, and not images meant to be shared) but I suddenly got other members commenting on them !!

I now think, but not sure, that you can only make photographs private to non-members. And now when I delete my trial images, I assume I am also going to delete the comments (including the "welcome to Glass" ones) which feels a bit rude.

The help also seems a bit rudimentary, and some things tricky to work out.

And although this is a bit petty, they have a controlled vocabulary for keywords, which makes sense, but it doesn't allow you to use Autumn as a key word, only "Fall"

Obviously, I am still learning, and I haven't spent that much time on it, but in spite of what I've said, I think that overall it looks pretty good, and they seem to be actively working at improving things.

I think you can sign up as a "viewer" and get a good idea of how it works, and how others will see your photographs should you decide to become a paid member. There are two tiers of membership, one that seems reasonable in cost, and one that seems a lot of money to me, for very little extra, except knowing you are possibly funding a quicker development timetable, and an opportunity to get more directly involved in discussing the future of the platform.
 
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myotis said:
I haven't really done very much with it, and I don't think I'm their ideal customer, as I'm not looking for somewhere to interact with other members. I just want somewhere quick and easy to dump some photographs where I can send people to look at them.

Glass.photo has a Capture One plugin (which works well), and this was the draw for me.

The photographs are displayed well, and you can create series (this is new, and just seems to be what I would call albums) along with photographs appearing chronologically.

There are a lot of very good photographers on it, and unlike Flikr where a lot of people obviously just dump their snapshots (as well as high quality photographs) the feelings I get from Glass, is that people are only showing their best work. This makes it a great place to browse, but a bit intimidating for what I wanted to use it for.

It's still a relatively new platform, and the three people who run it (its based in the Netherlands) have made the decision to not make use of any external funding, which means development is a bit slow.

it's perfectly workable, but I also feel it's a bit rough around the edges. For example, expanding an image to full size makes it flush with the edge of the screen with no border, which looks odd to me. On my test uploads, I ended up going to the hassle of adding a white border to images before uploading.

I have also found it a little confusing, for example, I thought I had marked all my trial uploads as private (because they were just random images I happened to upload, and not images meant to be shared) but I suddenly got other members commenting on them !!

I now think, but not sure, that you can only make photographs private to non-members. And now when I delete my trial images, I assume I am also going to delete the comments (including the "welcome to Glass" ones) which feels a bit rude.

The help also seems a bit rudimentary, and some things tricky to work out.

And although this is a bit petty, they have a controlled vocabulary for keywords, which makes sense, but it doesn't allow you to use Autumn as a key word, only "Fall"

Obviously, I am still learning, and I haven't spent that much time on it, but in spite of what I've said, I think that overall it looks pretty good, and they seem to be actively working at improving things.

I think you can sign up as a "viewer" and get a good idea of how it works, and how others will see your photographs should you decide to become a paid member. There are two tiers of membership, one that seems reasonable in cost, and one that seems a lot of money to me, for very little extra, except knowing you are possibly funding a quicker development timetable, and an opportunity to get more directly involved in discussing the future of the platform.
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The quality of work on glass is astonishing at times. It's a very good place to hang and be inspired.

Deffo my favourite photo sharing platform by a huge distance.
 
EdinburghGary said:
The quality of work on glass is astonishing at times. It's a very good place to hang and be inspired.

Deffo my favourite photo sharing platform by a huge distance.
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Yes, there is some very good work on there.

Although I'm feeling a bit intimidated about posting, I'm looking forward to following some of the photographers I've found on there.
 
myotis said:
Yes, there is some very good work on there.

Although I'm feeling a bit intimidated about posting, I'm looking forward to following some of the photographers I've found on there.
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To be fair, I often feel similar. When I have posted what I feel is maybe sub par or pointless, I've received nothing but encouragement and often praise when least expecting it.

I would use it as an excuse to really pay attention and slow down a little but you should still get stuck in. Everyone has been so nice.
 
No doubt a silly question, but what is the main point of Flickr?
 
Brentor said:
No doubt a silly question, but what is the main point of Flickr?
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Different things for different people, eg:-
  • Photo storage.
  • Linking for forum posts.
  • Joining like-minded groups.
  • Getting ‘likes’.
 
I recently resubscribed to Flickr, think it was £99 for two years (just over £4 per month) as a bit of a photo storage backup, find like minded groups etc.

It seems people are still sharing images but the discussion areas are all quite old.

One benefit is being able to easily share images on here via link. Going to see how it goes over next 24 months, I can’t decide if the fact not a lot has changed in the last 10+ years in terms of design etc is a good or a bad thing!
 
gramps said:
Different things for different people, eg:-
  • Photo storage.
  • Linking for forum posts.
  • Joining like-minded groups.
  • Getting ‘likes’.
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That's an interesting list, especially the first entry.

I used to see the main purpose of Flikr as being a place online to share your photographs without needing your own website, with this extended to discussing the photographs and Photography. e.g a photography community revolving around sharing and discussing photographs.

I've also read a few times that the demise of Flikr was partly down to Yahoo buying them and turning it into a cheap photo storage option, rather than a building on the photographers community. Smugmug mentioned this, when they took over and said that one of their aims was to encourage the community aspect and discourage it being used as a cheap photo storage facility.

My problem with Flikr (the free option, which would be good enough for want I want) is that viewing is plagued with delays and adverts if you don't have a Pro subscription. Unless they have backed away from this now, there is no way I would subject anyone I might want to look at my photographs, with this awful experience.

Glass.Photo doesn't have "likes" they have "appreciations" which is meant to encourage comments, and don't get counted.

glass.photo

How We Designed Appreciations — Glass

A deep dive into our thinking and design process for building Appreciations.
glass.photo glass.photo
 
If you are a film person then flickr is good to see what results other folk are getting with different cameras and different films.

I think I joined flickr as it meant it was far easier to share photos on here.
 
srichards said:
If you are a film person then flickr is good to see what results other folk are getting with different cameras and different films.

I think I joined flickr as it meant it was far easier to share photos on here.
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I'm not trying to promote Glass.photo, but given it's been asked about earlier in the thread, and I've already responded to the earlier question...

My earlier post demonstrated linking pictures to this forum from Glass, and you can search photographs by camera or lens.

I've just searched on Pentax 6x7, and while it doesn't list the total number of images posted from this camera, it gives the caption written by the photographer for each image. These usually seem to include film type along with (sometimes) processing information and lens.
 
myotis said:
That's an interesting list, especially the first entry.

I used to see the main purpose of Flikr as being a place online to share your photographs without needing your own website, with this extended to discussing the photographs and Photography. e.g a photography community revolving around sharing and discussing photographs.

I've also read a few times that the demise of Flikr was partly down to Yahoo buying them and turning it into a cheap photo storage option, rather than a building on the photographers community. Smugmug mentioned this, when they took over and said that one of their aims was to encourage the community aspect and discourage it being used as a cheap photo storage facility.

My problem with Flikr (the free option, which would be good enough for want I want) is that viewing is plagued with delays and adverts if you don't have a Pro subscription. Unless they have backed away from this now, there is no way I would subject anyone I might want to look at my photographs, with this awful experience.

Glass.Photo doesn't have "likes" they have "appreciations" which is meant to encourage comments, and don't get counted.

glass.photo

How We Designed Appreciations — Glass

A deep dive into our thinking and design process for building Appreciations.
glass.photo glass.photo
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Tjhe 'community' aspect had certainly been reduced, you only have to look at the number of Groups that no longer have active administration and are therefore either dead or a dumping ground for all and sundry. There are, however, still a number of active groups where you can discuss aspects of photography but it will always have the primary purpose of posting photos for sharing, comments and likes. The current owners have tried to introduce different projects but I have no idea of how successful these are, as they don't interest me.
 
I also think that one thing is that anything 'internet-related' is perceived to be required to be free or low cost and everyone (me included) baulks at increases.
However when I look at the cost of my weekly shop and other household/hobby etc expenses I largely accept that 'it happens' and the best I can do is look for unlikely alternatives.
 
gramps said:
Tjhe 'community' aspect had certainly been reduced, you only have to look at the number of Groups that no longer have active administration and are therefore either dead or a dumping ground for all and sundry. There are, however, still a number of active groups where you can discuss aspects of photography but it will always have the primary purpose of posting photos for sharing, comments and likes. The current owners have tried to introduce different projects but I have no idea of how successful these are, as they don't interest me.
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I have occasionally browsed the groups, and yes, there still seem to be some active ones, but a lot that look very dead.

It was Smugmugs ambition to rebuild the community aspect, but like you, I don't know how much success they have had.
 
gramps said:
I also think that one thing is that anything 'internet-related' is perceived to be required to be free or low cost and everyone (me included) baulks at increases.
However when I look at the cost of my weekly shop and other household/hobby etc expenses I largely accept that 'it happens' and the best I can do is look for unlikely alternatives.
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In principle, I actually prefer to pay for things (as long as it's low cost) as I feel I'm not at the whims of the provider. Even if the idea of paying for something gives any sort of control is delusional.
 
myotis said:
I have occasionally browsed the groups, and yes, there still seem to be some active ones, but a lot that look very dead.

It was Smugmugs ambition to rebuild the community aspect, but like you, I don't know how much success they have had.
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It actually needs one of a couple of options, either cull the 'dead' groups or reassign admin of them, as I am sure there would be willing people.
myotis said:
In principle, I actually prefer to pay for things (as long as it's low cost) as I feel I'm not at the whims of the provider. Even if the idea of paying for something gives any sort of control is delusional.
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I think we are always at the whim of the provider in such large enterprises. :)
 
A frustrating aspect of Flickr is the unwillingness to offer a mid tier between free and pro, which is what most of us would want, I think. But the site has always been a bit flakey, sometimes being painfully slow or simply not working, and I've never felt confident with it to the point of believing it has a long term future. I did have a pro subscription for a couple of years, but just didn't feel there was value in renewal.
 
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