Good evening. Peter, That's a great point of conversation to open up. I hope
that your optimism hold firm and turns out to be well founded with SmugMug.
Professional photographers that I know here in Florida have shifted all of
their clients' work to the site. It certainly makes it easy and efficient for
the buying public to purchase and obtain physical prints in a host of sizes and
finishes; but that's really not what we're talking about with regards to a site
for continued hosting and sharing of images that don't carry a price tag. If I
were in your shoes with a formidible inventory of images in place I probably
would stay put and hope for the best. As it is for me, with only a handful of
images, I've decided to delete the images and the account with Flickr and in a
sense tread water for a while. I have not come to a comfortable spot in my head
about where to post in order to share a link here on the Flexer site with the
small number of images that I have; and I welcome the conversation amongst the
folks here who will join the discussion.
Sonny's setup with WordPress seems to be very compelling; but what other
options have you Flexers come up with?
Best regards,
Peter Stevens
On Friday, April 20, 2018, 8:13:38 PM EDT, Peter Klein
<boulanger.croissant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you use flickr, as I do, this affects you:
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/20/smugmug-buys-flickr-verizon-oath/537377002/>
I don't know what this portends. It could be good news, or it could
mean that all old user agreements will be null and void and subject to
whatever terms they decide to dictate. I'm reasonably optimistic based
on SmugMug's past history and reputation. We shall see. The CEO says
they don't data-mine users content. I pay a reasonable fee to *not* be
deluged with ads. I like that model.
Thoughts?
--Peter
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