geetee1972
pfm Member
Funny how impressions vary.
Flickr is very much on the mend IME. The film photography groups are bursting with interesting content. More and people my age (20-40) are dumping instagram and getting back on Flickr. I moderate 5 or 6 film photography groups and I'm now almost struggling with the amount of content to moderate. Consistently interesting photography, and way, way better content than what you see on, say, facebook groups or instagram, 500px.
I'm enjoying so much having a tidy, curated, searchable historical record of my photography on flickr that I myself have just paid in advance for a 2 year pro account.
The people who have left, or are leaving are - based on what I can see - mostly the middle aged types who used to dump hundreds of samey HDR photos on unrelated groups. Think dreamy waterfall picture captured on tripod with slow shutter speed, or the 10 millionth photo of a kingfisher or Jaguar s-type with a D850. Most of these types got very salty when flickr limited non-pro accounts to 1000 photos. Such a breath of fresh air since then in the groups!
I have not noticed any pornography in my feed.
So yes, Flickr is undergoing a change, and as far as I can see is very much a positive one.
That is encouraging although there is an equivalent to middle age types dumping hundreds of HDR images on multiple groups and it's millenial types thinking that shooting film makes their images cool. You know the type I mean - shots of garages either in a desert or illuminated in mist at night, derrelict buildings, B&W 'street' shots made with a Contax T2 or Leica M6 and shot on Lomography film stock. And that's before we get into the utterly formulaic YouTube vlog with obligatory lowfi hip hop beats, half mast trousered woke presenters with bowl cut mullets and amiguous gender identity.
Please don't take that as anything other than a bit of fun - If I were twenty years younger I'd be exactly like that! Stereotypes exist up and down the age range.
I'd much prefer Flickr to be revived so if that's happening that's a big plus. You won't of course see any pornography that you haven't subscribed to but it's there in abundance and it's one reason not to let your kids access Flickr without some serious oversight. The problem for at least is not so much that it's there; as I said I have no problem with pornography. Rather that it's very common for your images to get appropriated in to collections of material clearly being curated for titilation rather than high art and that's before we have to deal with some very questionable curations, all of which seem to involve children. Seriously, I've taken down every single photo of my kids recently because so many users were adding them to their favourite collections that were full of kids.