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Flickr sold to SmugMug
Dodie:
--- Quote from: Shadow Creation on November 06, 2018, 05:45 ---Now their are changing Flickr free accounts. Check their blog post here
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I find 1000 images/free account is a very decent and generous change.
Many years ago, when I first subscribed to Flickr, free account was 200 images.
Smugmug was never a free platform and they sure didn't buy Flickr to do charity. Business is business and storage costs money.
Besides, professional stock photographers live in their own bauble, they don't realize that a huge % of people (I guess about 80%) who browse the web daily have no idea that stock photography exists.
Those people are glad to use a free account on Flickr or any other free platform to share their family photos.
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: Dodie on November 07, 2018, 14:27 ---
--- Quote from: Shadow Creation on November 06, 2018, 05:45 ---Now their are changing Flickr free accounts. Check their blog post here
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I find 1000 images/free account is a very decent and generous change.
Many years ago, when I first subscribed to Flickr, free account was 200 images.
Smugmug was never a free platform and they sure didn't buy Flickr to do charity. Business is business and storage costs money.
Besides, professional stock photographers live in their own bauble, they don't realize that a huge % of people (I guess about 80%) who browse the web daily have no idea that stock photography exists.
Those people are glad to use a free account on Flickr or any other free platform to share their family photos.
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True, but I have no interest in the community, votes or likes part. ;)
For someone who wants to store or share that works. Also there's Google https://photos.google.com/?pageId=none and Postimage https://postimg.cc/files and Nikon https://www.nikonimagespace.com/ or Canon https://www.irista.com/ (don't have to have a Nikon or Canon camera) Adobe? And finally DropBox. I probably didn't list all of them.
Smugmug seems reasonable for the storage and I'll guess, they aren't doing this for free just to be nice. Expect notifications and photo print deals to be offered. Not bad?
Flickr, nope, no interest.
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