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.

  • Malamodon@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Reminds me of a comment from several years ago on a post about the future of flickr that i agreed with:

    Slight off topic but a lot of people hate the site and welcome its demise but i still use flickr because i can’t find anything else that does what it does, it’s not perfect but it feels like a website made for photographers.

    Sure other sites can do some of these but a list of things i like about it: -

    • Albums & collections: very easy to create and organize, makes finding things later on much nicer, just wish more people used collections though.
    • Tagging: Works very much like lightroom and can even pull LR tags automatically. The ability to search my own tags and narrow down by tags, flickr even adds its own ones and you can search by pre-dominant colour in a photo. I can go to a list of all my tags when trying to find all photos from a particular camera, film, place etc. very useful.
    • EXIF: If photo has exif data it’s clearly displayed on the page and i can click through for extensive exif data as well. If a photo has GPS data in it there is a world map there and you can quickly drill down to where it was taken.
    • Easily select various sized copies or the original, if made available, and the share button has various options for social media sites, email and bbcode for forums, very nice.
    • Privacy settings are varied enough and useful, public/private/friends/family, change who is allowed to comment or add tags.
    • Select what kind of copyright (or lack thereof) i want on photos, has 9 different options to quickly select from.
    • Stats page for each photo with graphs and even where the viewers came from, there is also a summary stats page where i can see various things about all my photos. The Recent Activity page as well, lets me see if anyone has commented or favourited any photos so i can quickly respond.
    • People page, you can see the most recent 5 photos from people you follow, makes it easy to keep up with their activity as not everyone is prolific.

    While professionals will still be better off with their own personal websites on other hosts, flickr, for the most part, does feel like a site made for photographers, not social media snapshots and engagement farming, though they have tried to court that, it still at the core offers a feature set not available on other hosts that i am personally familiar with.