Whatever Happened to Flickr

This is a bit of cautionary tale I guess. I’ve been using Flickr for many years as a host for my pictures. I found the service so good that I’ve even been paying for it. Until now. Suddenly uploads are going like treacle, the web editing doesn’t work properly and other photo sharing sites are powering ahead with innovations that make Flickr look pretty long in the tooth. Snag is, I’ve got thousands of pictures up there, many of which are linked through to my blog – like the one above of Scarborough harbour.

So, do I stick with Flickr, and hope that their parent, Yahoo, decides that it is worth investing in, or do I jump ship to another company which might go the same way in five years? The cloud is a great place to put stuff, but I think we need to remember that not all clouds stay the same forever.

Comments

[Arjun Taheem]

from the sounds of things on Windows Weekly, Yahoo arent in good shape and there letting there best services go to waste. Unless this new CEO does something amazing flickr might be a thing of the past soon.... The best thing for it, would be if it was bought by Google or something. Speaking of Google, you should look into picasa, there photo software is great and you can get a yearly sub for a large amount of data.