![]() Google is so wealthy that it can throw money at things and do them in an excellent way with little concern for individual profitability. I don't believe that's the case with Yahoo. Google is made up of lots of people who care about user experience, creative excellence and so forth. I was gutted when they bought Flickr because as a business they seem to have no creative aspiration whatsoever. There's a very simple reason for Flickr going downhill - Yahoo. The Google+ album looks great but lacks some of the pro functionality (e.g. It is very much stuck in the dial-up / slow broadband era where loading masses of content wasn't viable. However he makes a very good point about the utter lack of development of Flickr over the last few years. So I think there will always be a place for the two types of site, as serious photographers won't tolerate the acres of junk that will inevitably appear on Google+ albums. Flickr isn't a random photosharing site, in the sense of "here are some drunken photos of a night out", the vast majority of content is significantly more professional / serious amateur. Mac: Run Terminal and navigate to your uploadr foldersomething like cd /Users/adam/uploadr/ (tweaked to match your directory). I think the biggest difference between the two is the type of person who uses them. ![]() Looking for a new place to put my photos when my membership runs out. So yeah for me its all gone pretty degenerate. Every time I check my Flickr thousands of dubious looking account names have favourited all my photos featuring male swimmers and when you click through to see their profiles you get a 18+ warning and then its full of east european boys posing for cameras or people who like to look at feet underwater, or pictures of young boys underwater looking like theyve been deliberately kept under. ![]() I take a lot of photos to do with swimming and surf lifesaving, so I do have photos on there of team mates in swim costumes/speedos/fast skins/surf kit etc etc male and female. Then theres the annoyance of what seems to be prolific use of Flickr as a w k bank for gays. Theres a zillion groups for the same kind of photos, the social aspect is gash too. The one annoying thing is the logging in bit, can never remember my password/username (because its not the same as the display name) and its all linked to yahoo and so you have to fart on for months going round in circles just to get back on. ![]() I still use Flickr to upload my photos as I have a lot on there. ![]()
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