On Leaving Flickr

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51 points·tuhin··6 comments

Great story.

I echo the point of Stepping Away. Stepping away from something you've built must be as hard as even committing yourself to build something.

This chart from Matt's Flickr stream would indicate that Flickr's traffic is growing at a healthy rate. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mroth/5471404089/

is it only me? Since Flickr has been bought by yahoo, it clearly has lost usability and appeal.

It was a really great site, as long as the original founders were still on board.

Anyone?

I know that many photographers use it to share their works, and it's better than most other photo sharing sites out there. When Facebook got better with photo handling(more than 60 per album, tagging, and God help us, face recognition), I imagine a large number of people stopped using Flickr and just stuck with Facebook instead.

I think stagnation is definitely a big part of their problem-not many improvements in usability(or maybe I just haven't been paying attention). I also believe there was a story sometime in the last few months where Flickr mistakenly wiped out several people's albums and had no way to recover them. They lost major points for that.

That aside, I thought the author's post was pretty touching and I wish him the best.

Losing employees like #13 is really a huge loss for Flickr.

Is Yahoo planning to sell Flickr too?

Not really. Employees #1 and #2 (Stewart, Caterina) left a long time ago. Several others have left too. But Flickr's still chugging along nicely: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mroth/5471404089/

I just wish people would stop panicking about small things.

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