Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Slightly related:
http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-ki ... e-internetExcellently written article on the steady decline of Flickr.
Disagree. This is the main thrust of their argument
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Want to share photos on the Web? That's what Facebook is for. Want to look at the pictures your friends are snapping on the go? Fire up Instagram.
Flickr doesn't aim to fill either of those niches, and never did. Flickr allows for finding and sharing pictures that are either particularly good, or are about a subject that you're interested in. It has a system that allows for quality to rise to the top. That's so far from what Facebook does it's untrue. I know less about Instagram, but again that seems to me to be more about "take photo, share photo" rather than Flickr's paradigm of effectively providing interconnected art galleries.
Flickr has much more in common with the likes of deviantart than it does with Instagram or Facebook, and it's a shame that people like Giz are overlooking that because FB/IG have more users.