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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Is Flickr Still Useful? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I would like to post photos on a site that is accessible to others but that is A) somewhat respectful of personal information (i.e. nothing owned by Facebook); and B) is not too silly looking (Imgur). Is there any good option, or is Flickr still worthwhile? I don't mind if the site charges a reasonable fee. Thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Good points; it has a void-ish feel to it, but it's interesting how many people are on it and how many people use it according to these answers. When I just re-signed up, it feels a bit like it's been left alone by its owners.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

One feature of Flickr I really like is the “camera finder”. It basically lets you see what cameras are popular, but more importantly it shows you the “interesting” pics taken with each camera. Browsing this thing has to be one of the best anti-GAS measures in existence, at least when it comes to buying new camera bodies. You can compare popular photos from the latest whiz-bang top of the line cameras to photos from whatever outdated clunker you have and see that they just aren’t any better. At all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

In this era that's pretty much the best one can hope for anyway. Meanwhile, every other major site is getting worse on purpose in order to "increase engagement" AKA waste your time trying to find what you want.