How not to replace email: lessons from Google Wave

Re:How not to replace email: lessons from Google Wave by Terretta on Sunday February 18, 2018 @09:13AM (#16406156)

It’s interesting you are thinking of them as the high-quality niche, saying not a huge demand for full resolution.

Problem wasn’t full resolution, it was re-compressing your originals. Photographers that care about full res, care about original quality.

While there were (and still are) options like SmugMug for photogs, Flickr was the only prosumer one supporting unlimited original quality.

Also on the “stagnating” comment — at some point is it possible you’ve hit a reasonable photo site, and shouldn’t tinker much?

Turns out photographers who posted and curated 50,000 photos are not big fans of having the rug pulled out from under them by people in marketing trying to change the UI for their own engagement metrics.

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Re:How not to replace email: lessons from Google Wave by ghaff on Sunday February 18, 2018 @09:46AM (#16406282)

>Also on the “stagnating” comment — at some point is it possible you’ve hit a reasonable photo site, and shouldn’t tinker much

I actually think that's somewhat fair. I could come up with some things that I wish were better with Flickr and there are probably lots of things I'm not thinking of. But I still use it and, in conjunction with Lightroom, I find it's a pretty good way to display a curated collection of edited photographs (as well as serving as a backup of last resort).

I did object to the big UI change a few years ago and still don't really love it. On the other hand, I don't actually use the web interface much. I upload from Lightroom and I mostly view from a tablet.

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