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.

Yeah, I think people who want to show still photography are heading back to flickr for the most part. IG really only wants you to post video clips now, facebook is kind of a wasteland except for friends/family, no idea what is up with imgur these days, 500px is only bots. Flickr has a decent UI, not much spam, doesn’t look dumb, and you can host whatever you want at high resolution, and even get some minor amount of exposure.

Been a Flickr pro user since 2008, highly recommended as an image host. No bullshit, just does what it is supposed to do… serve your images.

For what you want to use it for, Flickr is still the best option!

I recently started to revive mine, and frankly should’ve used it for a link I posted this morning instead of 500px :P

Thank you everyone for all these helpful answers! I’m reading through each one and I really appreciate them. It looks like Flickr is still good

try looking into adobe portfolio. you can set it up and upload bunch of pics/albums under in like 10 mins.

it can basically serve as archive and portfolio at the same time.

Have you considered just setting up your own website?

i like Flickr quite a bit.

Flickr has become the World Photo Archive by now. It has gone through a few hands and is pretty stable since the McAskill family bought it in 2018.

• pro: there is no “more relevant photo archive” because of the sheer numbers and variety. You may say: “yeah, but most of that is family and holiday shots taken on phone-cameras” and you’re right. But that’s what documenting life really is about. Nothing else is as complete. And the number of EXCELLENT photographers showing and archiving their shots on Flickr is incredible, too
• con: you only reach people who are somewhat into photography. Flickr isn’t IG, no random passer-by will stumble over a shot of yours and you can’t really advertise your portfolio. Most Flickr members really are there for their own work before looking at yours. That only changes when you are interested enough in photography to spend time on other photographer’s pictures, in searching through groups and galleries.

I have a pro account and so far about 110 million hits on my work (around 70’000 per day in average 2023) - it’s a clear indication that there are A LOT of people on Flickr and interested in photography

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stefanschmitz/

I had a Flickr account years ago. Literally just logged in for the first time in a long time after reading this post. Everything I ever uploaded has gone. Did it stop for a while and restart?

I still use it (since 2009). It’s gone through a lot, but for me it’s still the best way to have images accessible and create galleries. If I were more active as a community member, I believe there would also be a decent interaction as there was before. All in all, I vote yes. Leave us a link so we can follow you if you decide to make it. :)

yeah it’s fantastic. The film photography community is the best.

Flickr is one of the few places where I feel like photos are posted as photos for people to enjoy, and not just to get likes. Some people have amazing looking galleries on there.

I love Flickr, it just does what other sites don’t do, allows me to share my photos in a way that makes sense to me. I think people using it as file space for all their photos rather than carefully curated content contributed to its initial downfall, and I was completely annoyed by Yahoo forcing me to have a Yahoo account. When it was bought by Verizon I pulled all my content and deleted my account. I’ve come back to it since it was purchased by the SmugMug people and am considering paying for a pro account but am managing with a free one at the moment.

Been using Flickr since 2007. What else is there to use?

Also, when POTN closes down I’m gonna have to find another site to post on. Reddit will never replace the old school forums for me. Maybe I’ll have to switch over to FM forums.