I love using Flickr when I’m looking at a new lens. It’s great to get an idea of what kind of framing I’ll be able to get from a particular lens. I haven’t posted in nearly a decade, but it is nice to use when I need it.

Flickr has become the World Photo Archive by now. It has gone through a few hands and is pretty stable since the McAskill family bought it in 2018.

• pro: there is no “more relevant photo archive” because of the sheer numbers and variety. You may say: “yeah, but most of that is family and holiday shots taken on phone-cameras” and you’re right. But that’s what documenting life really is about. Nothing else is as complete. And the number of EXCELLENT photographers showing and archiving their shots on Flickr is incredible, too
• con: you only reach people who are somewhat into photography. Flickr isn’t IG, no random passer-by will stumble over a shot of yours and you can’t really advertise your portfolio. Most Flickr members really are there for their own work before looking at yours. That only changes when you are interested enough in photography to spend time on other photographer’s pictures, in searching through groups and galleries.

I have a pro account and so far about 110 million hits on my work (around 70’000 per day in average 2023) - it’s a clear indication that there are A LOT of people on Flickr and interested in photography

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stefanschmitz/

I love Flickr, it just does what other sites don’t do, allows me to share my photos in a way that makes sense to me. I think people using it as file space for all their photos rather than carefully curated content contributed to its initial downfall, and I was completely annoyed by Yahoo forcing me to have a Yahoo account. When it was bought by Verizon I pulled all my content and deleted my account. I’ve come back to it since it was purchased by the SmugMug people and am considering paying for a pro account but am managing with a free one at the moment.

I suggest looking at Behance as well.

Flickr is a great platform to begin with and you can use the Flickr storage as a backend for your own website. It’s not as fast as using an image CDN, but the speed difference is not that noticeable.

Take a look at Nanogallery: https://nanogallery2.nanostudio.org/. With some very basic PHP/HTML skills and understanding of JavaScript you can go a long way.

It’s pretty much the only thing I use. Instagram is terrible, but Flickr has remained pretty damned good.

Flickr is one of the few places where I feel like photos are posted as photos for people to enjoy, and not just to get likes. Some people have amazing looking galleries on there.

I still use it (since 2009). It’s gone through a lot, but for me it’s still the best way to have images accessible and create galleries. If I were more active as a community member, I believe there would also be a decent interaction as there was before. All in all, I vote yes. Leave us a link so we can follow you if you decide to make it. :)

yeah it’s fantastic. The film photography community is the best.

Yes, Flickr is still useful and there are still good photographers using it. As someone else before me said, the film photography community is the best.

Been using Flickr since 2007. What else is there to use?

Also, when POTN closes down I’m gonna have to find another site to post on. Reddit will never replace the old school forums for me. Maybe I’ll have to switch over to FM forums.

I use Flickr. I like it quite well.

If you’re interested, check out Glass, too. There are apps for Android, IOS and Windows.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ddrane8284/

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here is mine, I am on the pro plan but this may be my last year on it. I have continued to rely on it to get a photo out there.

try looking into adobe portfolio. you can set it up and upload bunch of pics/albums under in like 10 mins.

it can basically serve as archive and portfolio at the same time.

I still pay for Flickr - like others have said, it’s very easy to share with other people, especially people not on the platform. There’s also integration with Lightroom, which makes it incredibly simple to upload images. Stats are fun, despite the fact that I don’t really know how to use the information to increase my own visibility. I found out that a college professor uses one of my images on their coursework website, which was neat (I CC-license all my digital work).

Potential downsides - a while back, the site changed their policy on “visibility” to encourage more public-facing images, so I think there’s now a limit on how many images you can set to private or restricted viewing. (Maybe this has changed again, it doesn’t really affect me much so I lost track of where this is at.) I also find discoverability a little challenging, especially with regards to Groups; specifically, I want to be able to browse lots of Groups and I can’t figure out how to do that. The “community” stuff in general still seems to be lacking a bit, but maybe I’m using it wrong.