Flickr is still the best site I’ve found for organizing photos and getting them on search engines, but it seems there’s a lot of accounts that haven’t been used in years. Is Flickr going the way of Myspace? Seems people just put their photos on Facebook nowdays?
They got bought by Yahoo, the place good services go to die, and have languished for years. From memory I think they put everything into some kind of mobile/cloud service that never eventuated. Meanwhile they got left behind by services with better mobile apps, and Yahoo’s painful login system discouraged a lot of old users (including me).
They’ve actually had a minor resurgence recently, thanks mainly to a better app.
I’m finding Flickr is quite good for searching Creative-Commons-licensed images, but that can be said of a lot of places…
What I used to use Flickr for, I now use Pinterest for… getting my happy visual crack every morning, that is. I rarely use Flickr these-a-days.
Is Photobucket passe? I still use them, but they don’t seem to be the “go to” site they once were.
Sic Transit Gloria…
I never used Flickr for anything other than a place to put my photos and forget about them. I never used the site as a social network or to view other people’s stuff.
So long as it operates I’m fine, don’t need it to be cool.
But yeah, if “passe” means they’re losing the social networking arms race then yes, I’d say they’re passe.
I use flickr. It’s not trendy any more, but it seems to fill a niche that cooler services don’t fill – photos you want to store long-term at full resolution with info about how they were taken. It’s more “about photography” that other services where the photos are a means to an end, like showing your friends at an event, or presenting your lunch in an artistic way.
Maybe it’s a matter of settings on my phone, but I find Flickr to be very mobile unfriendly (I have an Android phone). I’ve learned to skip or back out of any Flickr link I come across when browsing on my phone because I know I won’t be able to see the photo anyways, and I’ll have trouble backing out once everything (fails to) loads.
I have no proof, but suspect that the increase in mobile phone usage may have something to do with it. I think websites that don’t develop mobile versions tend to suffer for it.
Near as I can tell, yes.
I just logged into my PB account the other week, and wow, a huge UI change. Everything is so…busy. They’re trying to cram too much crap in there.
I used photobucket a lot to host images to post on sites that didn’t have integrated hosting. Now it’s easy to do the same thing with Facebook though.
I do wonder what Yahoo is up to. The days of a web index being useful are long gone, Yahoo Answers is a bunch of teens asking each other stupid questions rather than something like Quora or a Wiki where answers could be improved on instead of repeated the next week, and people seem to be deserting Flickr despite it’s good interface.
If would be awesome if Google had bought Flickr and integrated it into their image search, or if Facebook would allow images set to be public to be searchable. I’m into photography but I can’t use Facebook because no one would find it, and Flickr seems to be the best choice despite the neglect from Yahoo.