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Re:Smugmug Acquires Flickr by chrissnell on Friday April 20, 2018 @11:23PM (#16889833)
Hi Don,

I've been a Pro user of Flickr since 2005 or so. I actually thought for the first time this year that I would cancel it. My number-one complaint is speed. It's so slow. As a professional infrastructure guy, it just kills me and I wished I could buy the company myself and make it fast again. I really hope you will invest in revitalizing this service because I really don't want to go.

My life--from young skier/mountaineer guy--to Army soldier--to dating a girl--marriage--kids--it's all documented there. I look at my old photos all the time but it's just so unbearably slow.

Chris aka https://flickr.com/photos/Defender90

Re:Smugmug Acquires Flickr by onethumb on Saturday April 21, 2018 @02:51AM (#16890285)
On it. We were a pre-launch customer of AWS, so we've been building both modern and at scale for quite some time. Super-talented team at Flickr, I can't wait to see what we can do together.
Re:Smugmug Acquires Flickr by ausjke on Friday April 20, 2018 @11:28PM (#16889845)
same here, pro user for 10+ years and I rarely use flickr these days but have been letting my credit card renew nonetheless. please revive flickr.
Re:Smugmug Acquires Flickr by onethumb on Saturday April 21, 2018 @02:51AM (#16890286)
You have my promise that we'll work very hard to do just that.