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Comment by gorfian_robot

1 day ago

wait, I am still using (and paying) Flickr ...

Except it is now owned and run by the father and son who founded SmugMug. It probably has a chance of surviving under their leadership.

  • I think the market narrowed a lot. I haven't been to Flickr in years, but I get the impression it's for more serious photographers now, like SmugMug. It was the Instagram of its day, with mass market appeal. I think that's what people miss. Not the site, but the community around it.

    In this same vein, I always thought Tumblr had a great design for a blog. It hits the perfect balance between a microblog like Twitter, and a fat blog like Wordpress. It had various stigma's around the type of people who posted there, which seems to have only gotten worse over the years. It is a shell of its former self and yet anther site that fell on hard times after Yahoo ownership.

    Yahoo really is where Web 2.0 went to die.