Anyone use Flickr?

5 Responses to Anyone use Flickr?

1. map says:

   December 12, 2005 at 10:11 am

   I use both. I’ve just started using Flickr as a host for my blog’s images (http://flickr.com/photos/heet_myser/), and it works great for that (Gallery2, as you’ve prob­a­bly noticed by now, stores images dif­fer­ently than ver­sion 1 did, mak­ing it not so friendly for host­ing images in mul­ti­ple sizes).

   I’ve found a theme for Gallery2 that I really (http://nicheplayer.net/gallery2/main.php) like and that has some cool fea­tures. The slide show isn’t even too objectionable.

   That said, I like hav­ing both. I got in on Flickr when they were giv­ing away pro accounts in exchange for rec­om­men­da­tions, so it hasn’t cost me a dime. I’m happy to answer any more detailed ques­tions you have.…

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2. Danny says:

   December 12, 2005 at 2:11 pm

   I’m really pulling away from some of the com­plex­ity in my life. I think I would ditch my Gallery install in favor of a Flickr Pro accout, if it worked out for me.

   One thing I’ve never got­ten com­fort­able with in Flickr is the user inter­face. It has never made sense to me, it has never been easy to nav­i­gate. I can’t imag­ine it would be easy for my fam­ily mem­bers to navigate.

   I’m going to go read some of their own pro­mo­tional stuff, see if they can con­vince me. I’ll be in touch if I have any ques­tions, map. Thanks.

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3. map says:

   December 12, 2005 at 8:53 pm

   “I’m really pulling away from some of the com­plex­ity in my life.”

   Oh dear. This doesn’t bode well for your home enter­tain­ment system. ;-)

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4. Danny says:

   December 12, 2005 at 10:03 pm

   Ha! Yeah, I guess it does. Though I’ll keep my TiVo. There are a lot of roll-your-own DVRs com­ing out, some already out there, that I just can’t be both­ered with. Yes, I dis­like TiVo’s Mac-come-lately atti­tude, but the thing works for what I want it for, and I don’t have the time to tin­ker turn­ing a Linux box into a home enter­tain­ment PC.

   As for the extended com­put­ing plan, well, right now it is pretty sim­ple. Had I the money to ful­fill the plan… well money can make com­plex­ity go away, too.

   Sigh.

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5. Lee Bennett says:

   December 29, 2005 at 12:50 pm

   Like map, I use both as well. I haven’t even upgraded Gallery to v2 yet, but its basic oper­a­tion is per­fectly fine for my needs. v2 should be all the more bet­ter if i ever get around to upgrading.

   My Gallery instal­la­tion is my pri­mary home of my sets of pho­tos. I use my Flickr account pri­mar­ily as my moblog loca­tion. I only paid for the pro account because I occa­sion­ally put some things in there that I don’t want deleted some­day later when I reach the stor­age limit.

   I feel like I wouldn’t mind using Flickr instead of Gallery except for two things. First, you might notice I don’t have many sets in my Flickr account. While I’m cool with a cen­tral library of my entire col­lec­tion in some­thing like iTunes where I can still sort by name, album, artist, etc. and make playlists that are sub­sets of the library, I’m still hav­ing dif­fi­culty hav­ing all my pho­tos dumped in one library with playlis­tesque sets.

   Sec­ond, I oper­ate my Gallery instal­la­tion on a server at home. Sure, my upstream band­width to host the albums to the world is just typ­i­cal broad­band upstream, but the albums are pri­mar­ily for my own ben­e­fit and usu­ally from home. So, for both brows­ing exist­ing images and upload­ing new ones, I get full LAN band­width for my orig­i­nal images that weigh in around 1.5mb each–and it’s not unheard of for me to put 100–200 images into an album. I’d not be too fond of the time needed to send 150–300 megabytes up to a remote server.

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