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SmugMug, Flickr, and other photo sharing platforms help photographers of all levels to protect, share, and even sell their photos. We provide the essential tools for photographers to improve their skills, increase their following, and grow their profits. We want people to make their photos accessible to those who are important to them. They might want to create a blog with photos from their cameraphone or show off their best video to the world to be a web celebrity. Perhaps they want to share private photos of their children with their family members. Flickr makes it possible to do all of these things and more. We want to make it as easy as possible for photos and videos to be uploaded and removed from the system. This can be done from the web, mobile devices, and any software the users use to manage their content.
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Probably still the best but going downhill... Date: Jan 21 2023
Summary: Still a very engaging site once you have "met" other genuine photo photographers and appreciative viewers – though these are declining in response to changes made over the last 5 years.
Positive: Wide international membership; significant (but declining) proportion of photographers vs. just viewers; organisation of photos into subject-interest groups, set up and controlled by members; inclusive of NSFW photos; availability of stats on viewing of your photos (but recently become unreliable); still some community spirit; generally helpful and responsive admins.
Negative: Slow and fluctuating loading of pages, especially "notifications"; shift towards it becoming a photo storage rather than exhibition / discussion site; poor layouts requiring scrolling through almost full-size images rather than quickly-loading thumbnail pages; bizarre decision to charge contributing photographers rather than "consumer" viewing members with no on-site reward for successful / popular images; resulting from this, a growing commercialisation and use by professional glamour / porn photographers to market their work elsewhere rather than by amateur enthusiasts who would be delighted with small rewards by the site to recognise their work. (I understand this shift in business model is based on advertising / marketing but it is a big negative from the site experience point of view)
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