In my humble opinion, Flickr was in need of a change. It was creaking at the seams, getting ever slower and frequently misbehaving. To be honest, I had also gone stale, posting less and less and just going through the motions.
So, Flickr, or more correctly Yahoo, made sweeping changes. Unfortunately, when it was released, it was full of bugs, ran even slower, looked awful and denied photographers any choice as to how their images were displayed.
True, there was far more space available for higher resolution images but in these days of widespread image theft no serious photographer is going to post high resolution images for others to steal; something Flickr never seemed to want to prevent.
Bugs were fixed, albeit slowly, but the dissatisfaction of the majority of members was largely ignored. After seven years with Flickr I felt let down and decided not to post any new images there.
Like many others, I decided to look elsewhere. I came to Ipernity and found a site where the owner of images had freedom of choice as to how their images were displayed. Where invite and award icons were discouraged so personal comments were the order of the day. As a consequence it was far friendlier. Of course it was smaller. No longer would I get 40 comments a day, but every comment was now personal and that meant more than a few icons copied and pasted.
I feel rejuvenated. Now I'm posting far more images than I was on Flickr. I look forward to reading comments on my work and seeing other people's work; to making new friends as well seeing old friends on Ipernity. I look forward to seeing new friends' work and gaining inspiration from them. Inspiration is something we all need.
Yes, I miss the ability of having statistics but in truth that was only ego food. So today I have decided that Ipernity is for me. I have cancelled my pro subscription with Flickr and committed to Ipernity for at least the next year. My new images are now posted to Ipernity and not Flickr. I keep a free account at Flickr to keep contact with friends there who have not transferred to Ipernity but will not be posting any new images there.
Ipernity is definitely my site of choice.
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Phill G said:
Janet Brien said:
beverley said:
when I first started noticing changes to flickr that I was not too happy with. I kept my account
open here but never used it. When the changes started at flickr, when certain bugs did not seem to be addressed, it became slower and less user friendly. My joy when I realised that
I had ipernity sitting and waiting for me ;-) within a couple of days, I upgraded to CLUB and
must say the advantages are tremendous and flickr just cannot compare but I am not sure
they even wish to be user friendly anymore. The influx of "overseas" visitors now, that flickr
are catering for more and more, the very very young generation with iphones etc, are now
making useless contacts, and many have no photostream just collection names, how
silly this is ... and am sure that as does happen, they will soon tire and move to something
new (there is always something new) and they will desert flickr. What will flickr do then ?
Ipernity is a breath of fresh air, the staff are friendly and if you have a query its dealt with quickly and efficiently and personally not automated ;-) and also I notice that sometimes, they close ipernity down, for maintenance, do what they have to do and then re-open. Hats off to them for doing this and also for letting members know. That way everyone is aware and there is no need for those long long long forum threads of flickr that drive everyone barmy.
I hope it does not change, its like the old flickr of seven years ago, user friendly and thats
what we all want. Groups and stats on flickr can get just too much, with what I feel are
horrible gaudy big awards that distract from the main photo, yes I run groups on flickr
but have always kept a low profile, kept the groups small and friendly and more or less
restricted to flickr friends, it worked :) big is not always best ... as ipernity have proved
to their advantage over flickr ;-) small is beautiful !
bit like raspberries ;-)
Dave Hilditch replied to beverley:
I'll look out for those raspberries, Bev.
╰☆☆June☆☆╮ said:
I first joined here in 2010. But am now back for good.
Bring on the raspberries Bev ;-)
Dave Hilditch replied to ╰☆☆June☆☆╮:
beverley replied to :
how slow, how user unfriendly it is, at the moment it seems comments won't stick,
and I am sure there are fresh bugs as well ... it is a never ending set of problems,
and its sad, I admit quite willingly ... flickr gave me the chance to express myself
and to learn and get ideas from others and then be a little brave in different directions,
and its been fun, met wonderful people (well, most of them have been ;) there are always
exceptions as there is in life ;-) but for the whole ... its been a fantastic journey and it
takes some time to breakaway ... but I think its like a relationship that has gone sour,
sooner or later, you make your mind up ... enough is enough ... for me that time is
approaching, once all is transferred and this stupid bt.internet/yahoo issue is resolved
either one way or the other ... I shall be here, ipernity will be home and I think slowly it
will develop into an enjoyable site like flickr used to be. Happy memories I am sure
for all of us ... ;) time to move on now ;-) o0o
raspberries rule ok ;-)
Kathleen Thorpe said:
Gerda said: