Flickr, new ownership.

[2342G3]

Flickr has been bought out by a platform named SmugHug, of which I have no knowledge. How do members of the railfan photographer community feel about the change, better, worse ?? any comments.. 

[ChuckCobleigh]

SmugMug

Details here: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/companies/flickr-smughug

[samfp1943]

ChuckCobleigh

SmugMug

Details here: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/companies/flickr-smughug

 

A little info on "Smug Mug" frorm the link provided by Chuck Cobleigh and its plans for FLICKR: "...“Now, we are excited to expand our family and our home. We’re thrilled to announce that Flickr will be joining SmugMug to create the world’s best home for photography.”

SmugMug, a Silicon Valley company founded by a father-and-son team, said it plans to maintain Flickr as a separate entity and site.

“Flickr has survived through thick and thin and is core to the entire fabric of the internet,” said SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill in an interview with USA Today.

“It’s a fantastic product and a beloved brand, supplying tens of billions of photos to hundreds of millions of people around the world.”..."

I have enjoyed for several years additions from the Barriger Library Collection of Photographs, In St. Louis.  Since a  posting by  Ed M. (MP173) about his visit to the J.W.Barriger III Library at UMSL several years back.

[linked @]  http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/barriger/index.html 

 After a brief correspondence with the gentleman in charge of the collection...I joined FLICKR, and have enjoyed their periodic postings of new collections of J.W.B.III's personal photo collection..

I certainly hope that "Smug Mug' will continue to host this interesting photo library collection.

Here is a link to one of the photo postings on FLICKR

@ https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/

 

[IbanezGuiness]

I hope they don't change much if anything, I use Flickr and really like it as is. The current servers can be slow at times which does not surprise me with Yahoo so hopefully that will improve.