Hayo Bethlehem
Flickr is dead
As of today I'm no longer actively using my Flickr account to post pictures, and moving all activities back to this website.
Flickr was a nice web application. When I started using it, it was really nice as you would get lots of feedback on your images, thus making it interesting to post more images. For me it was a social web app first, and a photosharing application second.
Over time certain patterns were emerging. People only tend to comment on pictures that are either funny or feature someone they know. The comments never really lead to anything you can learn from.
The only real method of getting better discussion is by pimping your pics around in hundreds of groups; something I really don't like doing.
So I took the decision to centralize my pictures once more. Sjors helped me extend my weblog backend allowing for a special fotolog format. I'll continue posting single pictures in this format. Complete albums will still appear in the album section.
If you have any questions or comments, don't hesitate to post them.
– Hayo
Page last updated Saturday, April 6th 2013
Discussion
Gabriel M. 14 Jan 2007 I stopped using it when I hit the 200 pictures limit for the free account. I now use Yahoo Photos. It has unlimited storage for high res versions. It's less geared towards publishing on the web and more towards sharing with friends. I use ImageShack to link to pictures.
Ron 14 Jan 2007 Noooooh! Is that a Hayo B. handwriting font??? OMG!
Calum M. Heriot 15 Jan 2007 I've always been a deviantArt user. I don't get the best feedback there, but its 100x better than that on flickr.
Good to see you've had enough of it, i'm sure i won't be playing with it much longer.