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I remember everyone leaving flickr for some reason yeeears ago (I don't remember the reason)

As someone who is not a photographer, I only follow photographers on Instagram. FWIW.

Instagram is like a performance show; every shot a photographer posts there is expected to have a wow-factor and generate Likes.

Flickr is much more relaxed; it's not perfect ( you can't exclude photos fron the Photostream for example ) but there's less of an expectation of consistent performance. I'm happy to upload 'warranty shots' to Flickr, unexciting but interesting documentary photos.

More importantly, Instagram downscales your photos to poop and bans zooming.

Flickr has been seemingly starved of resources since Yahoo purchased it - development definitely slowed down and the performance of the service got noticeably worse. It was looking grim for a while there, so it's really hopeful that smugmug have bought it.

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