Flickr
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“API was the other best thing about Flickr”
“making great use of their excellent API”
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“I remember being super happy on a day I got an email from Flickr”
“Washington state DOT uses it to post pictures for construction progress updates to this day. It’s great!”
Caveats and dissent
“I can't recommend it to anyone.”
“I stopped using Flickr around the time they started flirting with bait-and-switch strategies”
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“I wanted to move away from flickr”
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
We have a lot of mobile usage and the app works fine, so I'd love to know more about what you're experiencing with it. Can you contact our Support Heroes so we can assist? https://www.flickrhelp.com/ You make a fair point about the age verification thing. I'll look into it. It's probably based on a legal requirement that we have to deal with, even if the solution is silly. Sorry about that.
“We do have real, human, in-house customer support. It's good and fast.”
Threads where it came up
- Flickr: The First and Last Great Photo Platform 10 mentions
- Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme 2 mentions
- NASA Artemis Posters 1 mention
- Celebrating Interesting Flickr Technologies 1 mention
- A simple web we own 1 mention
- Self-hosting is being enshittified 1 mention
Data: flickr.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 15
“I can't recommend it to anyone.”
This article got me curious as I used Flickr years ago. Sadly couldn’t even move past the cookie banner at all. Too bad
Thanks for the feedback and feature request. I don't hear this request often for Flickr, but it's a core and beloved feature on our other platform, SmugMug, which you might want to check out if you haven't.
“For every photo I like to share which can be a lot when I am blogging...”
“I stopped using Flickr around the time they started flirting with bait-and-switch strategies”
“API was the other best thing about Flickr”
“making great use of their excellent API”
“I remember being super happy on a day I got an email from Flickr”
“Just search in flickr for the image id and you will get the relevant image in Flickr.”
“you could add photos to Flickr with a machine tag”
“Washington state DOT uses it to post pictures for construction progress updates to this day. It’s great!”
“I wouldn't because then you'd had have https://flickr.com/settings”
“Eventually, I moved to Flickr, which at the time was an actual community”
“I wanted to move away from flickr”
“I've had a Flickr account for about 20 years.”