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I have ditched iPhoto as my archiving software and moved my +150GB of photos and videos to Flickr

Nice! Glad it works for you. I suspect that a lot of people won't be using Flickr for everything because of NSFW photos that shouldn't live off the hard drive. That's certainly a concern for me.

I'd definitely emphasize this: "a better Mac/Windows/Linux native app would go a long way for power users" is a huge one. Right now the OS X version doesn't simply default to intelligent settings, which is bothersome: it should start uploading as soon as a photo is selected (along the lines of Instagram).

>Nice! Glad it works for you. I suspect that a lot of people won't be using Flickr for everything because of NSFW photos that shouldn't live off the hard drive. That's certainly a concern for me.

This is the most tangential and unnecessary thing I've read on HN all the years that I've been here.

I mean, DOH! Your XXX candid shots will stay in your hard drive, how is that a surprise or relevant to the discussion?

> how is that a surprise or relevant to the discussion

Lots of people will have _some_ photos that would be a bad idea to post on Flickr. Anyone with children, for example, will certainly have photos that obviously shouldn't appear on a public website.

Which means there's a very large set of people who can't save _everything_ on Flickr, and since the original post said 'I have ditched iPhoto as my archiving software', it seems completely relevant.

It's a new class of humblebrag.

Maybe go back and re-read the comment, it's pretty obvious, but I can spell it out for the language challenged. He has photos that since some shouldn't be put on a public photo site, and since sorting them out isn't easy, a local hard drive based solution is still preferable for him. I should think a lot of people are in this place. They don't want their children on the web, or their girlfriend. I realize this country was founded by religious zealots he'll bent on eliminating any fun, but it's a fact of life that a lot of people have naked photos!

>Maybe go back and re-read the comment, it's pretty obvious, but I can spell it out for the language challenged.

We, "language challenged" don't need it spelt out thank you, we got it the first time.

It's not what the comments says we find problematic, is why he deemed it relevant to say it. I mean since it goes without saying that this situation applies to some people, and that not everybody can share everything in Flickr.

It's like posting on an article about a cool new email client, and somebody commenting "Alas, I can't use this for everything I mail, because a lot of that are physical packages, not just emails". Well, duh!

>I realize this country was founded by religious zealots he'll bent on eliminating any fun, but it's a fact of life that a lot of people have naked photos!

Well, that was not my issue with his comment. For one, I could not care less -- I'm from another country, and I won't even raise an eyebrow for people having naked photos (or any kind of fun for that matter).

Hahaha! To be honest I haven't got any personal NSFW pics, maybe I'm not living life to the fullest! Maybe it'll go on my bucket list.

To each their own! There may also be demographic factors at work: I'm 29 and was among the first of my friends in college to use a digital camera. Certainly among my peer cohort sending / receiving NSFW pics is a common practice, but I obviously can't speak for everyone.

I suspect there are a lot of people like me out there, who would be leery of wholesale uploading to Flickr, for fear of missing a couple shots that shouldn't be public. I do use Flickr, but only for selected shots: https://www.flickr.com/photos/91262622@N02/ , some of which are just website storage. Others are experiments; for example, I bought an Olympus OM-D recently and have spent a lot of time getting accustomed to the camera.

Same age. I'm clearly hanging out with the "wrong friends"

You should put your e-mail address (obfuscated) in your profile; I was about to send you a message about this that's too specific to be of interest to most HN readers.

Well now I want to know.

Can't you set the default for uploaded photos to private? That would seem to solve the issue of using it to archive everything, and then let you selectively choose what to share.

Flickr has reasonably fine-grained privacy controls. There are a lot of people who do post the occasional NSFW picture right in with their regular photostream.

You can mark it private to yourself only, or family, or contacts, and anyone not in those groups will never see it. You can and should also mark it as having a different "safety" level - by default people browse Flickr in a "safe" mode, unless they change their account settings. Such people, even if you've authorized them, will be prompted to click through. This is my favorite setting, as a clicked-through image has an emergency kitten escape button.

Finally there are "passes" for certain photos that can override any other security setting. So it could be private to you, but you can give someone a pass (a special URL) to see it. You can revoke the passes later if you want.

Can you explain what you mean about video? Flickr video until the redesign was limited to 90 seconds, and now 180 seconds. Still quite limited, but I don't know where you got 10 seconds from.

Sure. I've uploaded all the videos I had on iPhoto/iPhone. All of the videos are the same format, but when any given video is 10 seconds or longer (I haven't stopped to measure, but that's roughly the length), I get the following message on the video's Flickr url:

  Bonk!
  For some reason we were unable to process this video.
  
  There may have been a temporary problem with our servers,
  or we may not be able to work with this video file

i.e. video playback for +10 second videos isn't working for me, and video format between playable and non-playable videos is the same. Any ideas what this might be?

Huh. I've never seen that message, and I upload 5 or 6 videos a day, all generally around 70-80 seconds long, and in the last few days close to 3 minutes long. Almost all of them made with my iPhone 5.

Just to address the Video issue. I think Yahoo knows this is a general problem for them and it's probably the next on the list of things to address. I have a feeling it's going to come in the form of a Video service acquisition that will then tie into Flickr and other services rather than trying to improve on Flickr's inadequacy. Although I hear you when you say that videos need to be permitted in albums.

I thought the same thing as you did: Yahoo needs a video acquisition. Maybe that's where the failed DailyMotion acquisition came in. I think Vimeo is the perfect fit for the new Flickr, but good luck buying that from IAC.

Yes! I completely agree about Vimeo. It's a brilliantly simple and clean service for video and would be a fantastic addition for Yahoo. Although I think they want to go much bigger and try for something like Hulu.

I don't see how the two are related. Hulu is for consumption of produced video where as Vimeo is for oriented towards user generated video. They don't fulfill the same need.

Yes I realise this. User generated video may not be Yahoo's priority right now but on the subject of video, studio produced content is more than likely to be. Everyone's throwing their hat in the ring when it comes to streaming tv online. You can be Yahoo wants in on some of the action. What's going to be a better revenue generator?

> iOS app... it would be nice for an easier way to tag + create/add to set + upload photos and videos. By the way, where is the tablet app?

Use FlickStackr: http://ipont.jubilo.ca/ip/flickstackr/

Can't figure out why Yahoo hasn't acquired this yet.

Apparently, deep integration with Flickr is slated for iOS 7:

http://9to5mac.com/2013/05/21/flickr-vimeo-integration-likel...

I'm curious to see to which extent it will be.

I really wish Apple would let apps create their own type of account rather than arbitrarily picking services for users.

Makes me curious about how they did it with iOS6 with Twitter/Facebook if there will be a special kind of app that can be called "service" or if Apple will hold it close to the vest only being directly integrated in iOS so 3rd parties like Dropbox, Google+, etc... can't add similar deep integrated features in the os.

RE: Map processing.

I had a similar issue uploading from Aperture and it turns out there are 2 privacy settings in Aperture that have to be changed in order to upload geolocation data. I'm not sure if that's your same problem, but privacy settings may be something to check.

How did you manage to sync 150GB+ of photos into Flickr?

https://secure.flickr.com/tools/

In case you don't know about them, there are native Windows and Mac applications for uploading:

http://www.flickr.com/tools/

I've had lots of problems with the Mac uploader, fwiw. Huge CPU use, using less than 1/4 of my bandwidth, not adding to sets, uploading for a few minutes then simply stopping, uploading and then showing me dozens of errors that said a photo failed to upload (maybe one for each photo? I killed it before it had that chance) when in fact they did and were sitting in my photo stream...

The web uploader is way, way better in every way, and far faster, even with the problems I've had with it (if all photos aren't completely uploaded and processed, the 'upload' button tends to fail, but at least it fails atomically so I can just redo everything and not wonder what worked and what didn't).

I guess it's more of a problem than the Windows client. I've been using it the past few days and haven't had an issue with it.

How are you uploading your pictures? One thing that has always kept me away from Flickr is that it always seemed very clunky to upload things (I wish it monitored folders like Dropbox)

Most people I know do it via some form of API integration with desktop photo managers. Lightroom/Aperture plugins come to mind (I think it's built-in to Lightroom now?)

The trick is also that most photo sharing sites don't actually have a good way to manually upload photos. Most (see: Instagram, Facebook, etc) excel only when you go through their apps.

I've used the site (drag and drop) and the Mac app. The site works as it should, it even starts uploading files before hitting submit, which speeds up the process. On the other hand the Mac app needs a big update, and by big I mean start from scratch. The app feels slow, packed with restrictions and errors, but I guess it was designed for the previous Flickr version.