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Yahoo may shut down Flickr, other unprofitable business units

As a programmer of legacy hardware / software, it is my opinion that Flickr is of really poor design and an embedded pile of ***t. It's like they tried to poorly copy Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook, just awful. I often peak at the code and just perplexed at why they do what they do. I remember the classic Flickr, way better than this crap. It deserves to go away. Yes, I have pictures there but just used for family that want to nab some photo's of an event. I could use something else and never look back.

For the more serious photography people, you may want to look into 500px.

For those less serious who want to migrate from Flickr, check out ipernity as they make it pretty seamless to do so and ten million times better / easier. There are so many ways to do this now a days.
 
pictures I can re-host - a pain but not a disaster esp as I'm not using my blog as much these days so I don't have to worry about re-linking everything

It's the contacts I'd miss out on - because chance are everyone would run 1001 different ways and would be impossible to keep track of :(
 
I don't use Flickr as a dumping ground like many do. I absolutely love Flickr and so does my friend Thomas Hawk which wrote a great article about it on PetaPixel and on his blog Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » In Defense of Flickr

Just like Thomas, I use Flickr in the same way as him. I have many albums on Flickr and I use another program called SuprSetr that organizes the albums automatically for me by tags I add either during the upload process or in Lightroom. Its been a really great system for me and I'm not going anywhere.

Hopefully whoever buys it next will make it even better.
 
Always preferred photo bucket personally.
 
Photobucket has always been my dumping grown. It's messy interface wise; really really messy. There are ads all over the place, annoying loud ones too when uploading; its slower; sometimes gets confused, isn't as clean nor professional in display.
The only thing it does right is auto-generate urls and other codes for ease of copy-pasting. That it takes longer to open pages and sometimes hasn't even loaded the photo fully is - well - its downside.

Flickr really could move with the times and drop their antiquated policy on hiding direct urls and other aspects and really embrace that side of easy sharing to boost its popularity.
 
I got my pictures off Flickr. I used to like it but less so every time it was changed. Seeing the latest news I realized now I better clear out my ymail that I hardly use. The reason I'm clearing out my photos/emails is because of the My Yahoo page that literally got yanked overnight. Seemed like Yahoo ignored endless complaints on their feedback forum, and after a time I realized it wasn't going to be 'My' customizable page, that Yahoo was not going to provide that. It did used to be a fun site to use...

Kind of a shame to see Yahoo go downhill which for me it has, but maybe with new ownership it will rebound.
 
Derrel said:
A good example of why Flickr is doomed: not too many months ago, under Miss Airhead's reign, the geniuses at Flickr made some minor updates to their site, and in the process rendered millions and millions of older versions of Mac OS unable to access photos on Flickr.

Thisis a huuuuuge problem in tech companies, where kids in their 20's, working on brand-new computers, bought by their companies, and running up-to-the-minute OS versions decide that some whiz-bang, cool new feature that will display thumbnails in some neat, new way manages to BREAK the God*****d site's most-basic functionality, which is to SHOW PHOTOS to a wide audience. Hundreds of millions of users, running older computer operating systems, using multiple older variants of web browsers, on two platforms, Win-doze and Mac-in-trash, can not actually SEE the images due to Flickr's system requirements.

The kids running Flickr did this to their site not long ago, utterly, ignorantly unaware that whatever minor benefit they brought to Flickr, the minimum system requirements they've set have locked out hundred of millions of computers from even being able to SEE an image properly on Flickr.

A photo uploading and sharing site that locks out 2012 Mac OS computers, and that locks out the millions upon millions of older, company-owned Internet Explorer computers...this is the kind of moronic short-sightedness that afflicts companies filled with 20- and 30-something developers and managers who have $4,000 workstation computers, and who have no f****g idea of what the real world of computing is filled with: older OS variants, and older browsers. The priority is NOT cool new display of thumbnails and clever web page tricks, but uploading and sharing photos by a hugely diverse universe of actual com-pu-ter set-ups, used by r-e-a-l people.

There are still huge numbers of company and personal computers that can NOT SEE properly, any image on Flickr. Miss Airhead cannot manage a company because she has not a clue about how the real world accesses the web. Flickr's idiot managers have willingly set the minimum access requirements too high, too modern, too restrictive.
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When Commenity bank took over Meijer's Stores own credit cards I went to their website.
It was odd. There was a title and a footer to a page.

I could barely make out light grey text one shade darker than the background light grey.
I copy and pasted the entire page to notepad, and viola, there was an entire page of stuff.

I sent them an email politely asking them not to let a 20 yr old design the interface as they can see subtle contrast changes. As many of us older folk cannot, thus the page actually looks blank.
Then I gave them a quick tutorial on interface design which has to be designed for the lowest common denominator in this case related to aging eyesight.

The website was changed within days with full black text.

Ahh .. I wish Apple would get the cue too as I held off on iOS 8 when it first came out as I saw it was designed for 20 something eyesight. Then when another person here at work got ios 8 I had to figure out how to change it to make more contrast. Then after I knew I could change it, I upgraded my phone.

Nowadays developers seem to push a "trend" such as light contrast to the extremes, thanks I think to Apple. I just hope they swing back to functional things for a wider demographic as time goes on.

Otherwise we'll end up with slightly off-black road paint lines on asphalt roads.

As to Flickr, it's one of many parts of Yahoo. They've been trying to sell Flickr on it's own for years. Now it will go to the highest bidder *if* someone wants Flickr.

They'll be letting go more and more of the intellectual developers of Flickr, if they haven't already since they are in "maintenance mode"
So as their servers age those won't be worth anything much in a sale of this magnitude.
The sale compromises how much can a future company mine profitability from the users of Flickr. Think of the investment needed to bring it back up to snuff after this "maintenance mode"
 
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Overread said:
Photobucket has always been my dumping grown. It's messy interface wise; really really messy. There are ads all over the place, annoying loud ones too when uploading; its slower; sometimes gets confused, isn't as clean nor professional in display.
The only thing it does right is auto-generate urls and other codes for ease of copy-pasting. That it takes longer to open pages and sometimes hasn't even loaded the photo fully is - well - its downside.

Flickr really could move with the times and drop their antiquated policy on hiding direct urls and other aspects and really embrace that side of easy sharing to boost its popularity.
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Lol 2 words for you...ad blocker. Never leave the desktop withoit it.
 
Watchful said:
Overread said:
Photobucket has always been my dumping grown. It's messy interface wise; really really messy. There are ads all over the place, annoying loud ones too when uploading; its slower; sometimes gets confused, isn't as clean nor professional in display.
The only thing it does right is auto-generate urls and other codes for ease of copy-pasting. That it takes longer to open pages and sometimes hasn't even loaded the photo fully is - well - its downside.

Flickr really could move with the times and drop their antiquated policy on hiding direct urls and other aspects and really embrace that side of easy sharing to boost its popularity.
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Lol 2 words for you...ad blocker. Never leave the desktop withoit it.
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Besides some websites won't work until you disable adblocker haha, but there probably is a way around it.
 
I didn't know Photobucket still existed. But then I do see some old codger driving around in a model T every once in a while as well.
 
nerwin said:
Watchful said:
Overread said:
Photobucket has always been my dumping grown. It's messy interface wise; really really messy. There are ads all over the place, annoying loud ones too when uploading; its slower; sometimes gets confused, isn't as clean nor professional in display.
The only thing it does right is auto-generate urls and other codes for ease of copy-pasting. That it takes longer to open pages and sometimes hasn't even loaded the photo fully is - well - its downside.

Flickr really could move with the times and drop their antiquated policy on hiding direct urls and other aspects and really embrace that side of easy sharing to boost its popularity.
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Lol 2 words for you...ad blocker. Never leave the desktop withoit it.
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Besides some websites won't work until you disable adblocker haha, but there probably is a way around it.
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The ones that aren't worth going to. There is no exclusivity on the net.
 
This is starting to seem like a soap opera. Yahoo is doing nothing to increase their core business and it's is languishing and decreasing valuation all the time. And yet they want bidding to continue.
Looks like the bidders aren't going for it
Yahoo bids expected to come in well below estimates
 
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