Flickr was a hero, then yahoo/smugmug killed it. It's still there, but along the way all changes reduced it to an also-ran. It's still a nice tool, but I just don't see myself using it again. The URL scheme, as neat as it was, I never noticed or cared to hack at. I just wanted to upload photos.

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dewey 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> then yahoo/smugmug killed it

I understand the Yahoo part, but what do you mean with smugmug? My impression was that they bought it and "revived" it but I might misremember the history there.

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tclancy 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

They bought it but the revival was just the corpse moving around from heavy handed cpr attempts. It still lives thanks to the guy from Pinboard, but only as an archive really.

	▲	dewey 35 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Are you confusing Flickr with Delicious (Which was what Pinboard guy bought from Yahoo) or am I missing something?
	▲	kome 13 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		you are confused :) you are thinking about del.icio.us flickr is alive and well

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embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I just wanted to upload photos.

Flickr is an unsung hero in this. I uploaded photos back in 2011 when I purchased my first DLSR camera, and had forgotten about them until this day, and seems they're still up! Did some other checks for content I uploaded back then, and seemingly only my YouTube and Vimeo videos are still up, everything else I spot checked from the same period seems to be gone by now.

Kind of neat for a free photo hosting platform.