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Post by parfive on Apr 21, 2018 1:27:16 GMT -5
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Post by vegasjames on Apr 21, 2018 1:44:18 GMT -5
Good news in a way. I absolutely hate Yahoo, which is such as hassle to deal with. So nice to see Flickr taken over hopefully by a more functional group.
Still have to wait and see what changes are made. Hopefully they learned from Photobucket's big fiasco that really hurt them by holding photos hostage unless you paid a "ransom".
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Post by NRG on Apr 21, 2018 11:16:41 GMT -5
Anything owned by Verizon goes to shieße. I wasn't aware they acquired Yahoo. That is a match made in heaven. Glad they divested themselves of Flickr. Verizon sux in all regards. I'll never spend money with those aholes again.
I'm confident Smugmug will do it justice.
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Post by Tommy on Apr 21, 2018 11:24:30 GMT -5
I'm confident Smugmug will do it justice. Yes but mark my words, the end of "free" flickr is coming. Smugmug is very organized in their ability to structure charges for their services, and from their website I only see safety assurances being given to their paying customers. I don't see a word to Flickr users that the product will remain free.
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Post by 1dave on Apr 21, 2018 12:05:05 GMT -5
"The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglay." - wee Bobbie Burns
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Post by aDave on Apr 21, 2018 12:10:51 GMT -5
I'm confident Smugmug will do it justice. Yes but mark my words, the end of "free" flickr is coming. Smugmug is very organized in their ability to structure charges for their services, and from their website I only see safety assurances being given to their paying customers. I don't see a word to Flickr users that the product will remain free. Two quotes from the article stand out for me: It will be very interesting to see if the above comments hold true. I think the second statement is a reference to what PB did, and it seems pretty clear they want to avoid that fiasco.
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Post by Tommy on Apr 21, 2018 12:31:26 GMT -5
Two quotes from the article stand out for me: It will be very interesting to see if the above comments hold true. I think the second statement is a reference to what PB did, and it seems pretty clear they want to avoid that fiasco. To be perfectly honest I didn't read the article so thanks for those quotes. I'm just familiar with Smugmug from the research I did when writing our 'how to post photos' article. For whatever reason (not intentional) Smugmug did not get listed in the choices of 3rd party hosts. I will correct that on the next update after the Flickr thing plays out for a little while.
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Post by MrP on Apr 21, 2018 12:36:17 GMT -5
I'm confident Smugmug will do it justice. Yes but mark my words, the end of "free" flickr is coming. Smugmug is very organized in their ability to structure charges for their services, and from their website I only see safety assurances being given to their paying customers. I don't see a word to Flickr users that the product will remain free. I am sure that anything "free" on the internet will come to an end at some point. As you know somebody has to pay for everything related to the internet either buy Ads or you. Every post cost something, for power, network, servers, etc. Granted the cost is very small, per post, but when you multiply a small number by a HUGE number you get a huge number. There is not a person involved in the internet that is willing to do something for free. I am going to enjoy what we have now because I will be paying more in the future.............................MrP
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Post by Tommy on Apr 21, 2018 12:38:48 GMT -5
In other news, maybe now I can get access to my old Flickr account again I got hopelessly locked out of it after Yahoo took over Flickr because my Yahoo "password recovery" email on file with Yahoo was really old from back in the Yahoo/SBC Global days. When I began the process of changing it I got locked out of Yahoo by an ATT website because SBC had became ATT and I had no ATT account ... yada yada yada what a nightmare it was trying to sort that out until I finally gave up. Edited to add: for now they still have the Yahoo login. I'll probably eventually need to call someone at SmugMug about getting the old account back but it's worth the trouble - I have hundreds of my photos floating around out there with no way to edit/delete/ etc...
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Post by 1dave on Apr 21, 2018 15:04:39 GMT -5
If it was supposed to be easy they would have old people doing it.
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Post by grumpybill on Apr 25, 2018 15:33:51 GMT -5
I didn't see any news articles about the pending acquisition, but the email I received from flickr didn't inspire much confidence that it would remain free.
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