Comments on: Flickr - review

By: Faye

Faye — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:39:56 +0000

Flickr sucks…I reached my limit and so there was a bunch of photos that was put on “storage” aacdg to them and the only way I’ll be able to view them is when I deleted the most recent ones… But that was not the case…I deleted my recently posted photos…and was still not able to view the old ones… I was told to wait for a week for the photos to re-upload but that passed and nothing happened…So, I emailed them again and was told…all my photos are gone and the problem was blamed on me- for they said I deleted all of ‘em!!! I mean, seriously?! How can I possibly delete photos that I cannot even view and thus, unable to select to be deleted!!! And why would I delete photos that I am trying to retrieve?!?!

By: Shadowgolem

Shadowgolem — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:12:18 +0000

Flickr changed a lot on their setup and display options since 2005. Might be worth another look.

By: Imran

Imran — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:11:31 +0000

If only I was an API guru…

I’m a SmugMug subscriber, but the one issue that keeps making me take a second look at Flickr is it’s ease of integration into Wordpress and other blogging platforms.

I wish there were more ways to show my SmugMug pics off to friends and family by integrating the pics stored there into my pages and blog posts.

I’m hoping more developers will do that for SmugMug… or even that SmugMug will invest some time and cash into developing these tools for it’s own user base.

By: tim

tim — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:33:11 +0000

Only 3 sets? that’s a definitely disappointer.

By: speedyop

speedyop — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:56:45 +0000

seems that one another point you noticed is going to change : flickr propose taht you invite person with just an email and directly mark them as friend or family.

but i’m agree that a lot of features are still missing, i can’t find how to found all those private image to change their status!

By: Don MacAskill

Don MacAskill — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:36:12 +0000

smugmug’s got a great API, too. I assumed Zoto did as well, but I couldn’t find it a minute ago.

I think the important point, though, is that the vast majority of the population doesn’t know what to do with an API, but they do know what to do with smugmug’s Themes.

More people even know how to do basic HTML or CSS than know how to do useful things with an API, in fact.

Full disclosure: I work at smugmug. :)

By: Greg Reinacker

Greg Reinacker — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:20:20 +0000

Good point…I should have mentioned Flickr’s awesome API.

By: siuyee

siuyee — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 05:16:41 +0000

Flickr is 100% customizable using the Flickr API. You don’t need to point your visitors to the flickr url. There are flickr-ready plugins for all the major CMS (Wordpress, MT…)