SMUG MUG PHOTOS has just purchased FLICKR PHOTOS

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Re: SMUG MUG PHOTOS has just purchased FLICKR PHOTOS

Postby ScaleCraft » Tue Aug 28, 2018 8:14 pm

https://www.flickr.com/

That's my bookmark. No smug mug anywhere.

https://www.flickr.com/about when you click "about" at the bottom left...I see no mention of smug mug anywhere on the "about" page.


Click on Flickr Blog on left.

Takes you to:
http://blog.flickr.net/en

scroll to bottom.

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It asks for my yahoo log-in. It accepts my yahoo log-in. NO place (yet) have I found smug mug mentioned.

I don't know. Almost like two different sites....one old, and something you see that's new.

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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Wed Aug 29, 2018 7:57 am

ScaleCraft wrote:https://www.flickr.com/

That's my bookmark. No smug mug anywhere.


AGain, that page stylistically looks very much like the SmugMug page

https://www.flickr.com/about when you click "about" at the bottom left...I see no mention of smug mug anywhere on the "about" page.


Look under Terms (https://www.flickr.com/help/terms):

FLICKR USERS: As of May 29, 2018, Fantastic Fox, Inc. has acquired Flickr. Your continued use of the Flickr services will be subject to these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use also apply to your use of the Services, where applicable, to purchase photographic prints, videos or other related merchandise, products and services (“Products”) through Flickr’s approved third party vendors and retailers (“Flickr Vendors”). For information about how Flickr collects, uses and discloses your information, please see the Flickr Privacy Policy. SmugMug has no control over and no responsibility for any use of your personal information by previous owners or operators of Flickr. Below are Flickr’s new terms and conditions of use (“Terms of Use”) that apply to the Flickr services including the Flickr website (the “Site”) and the Flickr mobile application (collectively, the “Services”). The Services are owned and operated by SmugMug, Inc. and its subsidiaries including Fantastic Fox, Inc. and their respective employees, agents, affiliates and contractors (collectively, “SmugMug”). These Terms of Use apply only to the services offered by the Flickr division of SmugMug (“Flickr”) and do not apply to any other services offered by SmugMug. Please see https://www.smugmug.com/about/terms for terms of use applicable to those services.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICES, PURCHASING PRODUCTS OR FLICKR PRO SERVICES, OR CLICKING THAT YOU AGREE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE.

Welcome to the SmugMug family! The Services provide our users with online tools designed to facilitate and share our love of photography and videos and to promote camaraderie. These Terms of Use protect the legal interests of SmugMug, our users and our third party vendors.

and so on ad nauseum........
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Postby ScaleCraft » Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:35 am

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
AGain, that page stylistically looks very much like the SmugMug page



and so on ad nauseum........

Maybe. However, for the last number of years the Flickr page has looked like that, so one must pause and surmise that "the SmugMug.....page stylistically looks very much like.....the Flickr.... page"
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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Wed Aug 29, 2018 1:04 pm

ScaleCraft wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
AGain, that page stylistically looks very much like the SmugMug page



and so on ad nauseum........

Maybe. However, for the last number of years the Flickr page has looked like that, so one must pause and surmise that "the SmugMug.....page stylistically looks very much like.....the Flickr.... page"


Maybe? ToS are pretty clear that it's owned by SmugMug. Now why they have not changed the rest is a mystery or just laziness, or they are in no hurry, or next year they will roll out a whole new system for all we know. Roll your 12-sided dice and take a guess.

I can't say what the Flickr homepage ever looked like - until this week I never accessed Flickr that way - I always came in through one of my Yahoo groups.
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Re: SMUG MUG PHOTOS has just purchased FLICKR PHOTOS

Postby Joseph Frank1 » Thu Aug 30, 2018 11:45 pm

Hello Guys

SMUG MUG does definitely at present, and since May 2018, OWN FLICKR -- I have had written email communications with SMUG MUG Staff. If you, like myself, have a FLICKR account -- and paid close attention to the notices back in May and June by SMUG MUG that they bought flicker from VERIZON (who bought it along with Yahoo and AOL) - you will also remember suddenly seeing the SMUG MUG two round circle logos (what were they, apples??) in the top left corner of your FLICKR Page. Also a direct LINK to open the SMUG MUG site was installed.

Well, that icon logo and the link were silently and suddenly removed in recent weeks -- gone -- and all HELP sections revert you to Flickr- "Yahoo" Help pages for FLICKR now. And the link to this video was suddenly also removed from FLICKR homepages also --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... 4B_qlaN8C4

Also, we still have to sign into YAHOO (via Verizon's OATH server) on our Flickr Site rather than having a new established sign in protocol via SMUG MUG. a real P I T A

I brought this up to the SMUG MUG staff in emails and was told (I saved the emails) that they are still working on it. Its a hard thing to resolve, fix, change -- and they are working on it.

Well, others in the "internet website" business I speak with think "maybe" SMUG MUG is possibly now having buyer remorse -- and perhaps that is why they have "separated" themselves fully from any "visible" connection with, and on, the FLICKR site. Who the heck knows...really !

The visual look of FLICKR we have now has NOT changed from what that Marissa Meyer (Yahoo now ex-CEO) - and her staff, did to create the "look" of the FLICKR page format many years ago - as we now still see it under SMUG MUG. Nothing there has changed visually.

As far as FLICKR goes... nothing seems to have been changed, upgraded, improved, or anything, at all in the 4 months SMUG MUG has "owned it" .

Any comments ??!!

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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Fri Aug 31, 2018 8:22 am

No changes ='s probably overwhelmed.

I had a Flickr account and found it at best cumbersome to use and when Photobucket exceeded my tolerances, I moved to SmugMug; have not looked back and really have written off Flickr.
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Postby Nortonville Phil » Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:08 am

It looks like Flikr is going to limit free accounts to 1000 photo's now? I have more than that on there. Good grief.

https://www.flickr.com/lookingahead
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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sat Nov 03, 2018 3:38 pm

Nortonville Phil wrote:It looks like Flikr is going to limit free accounts to 1000 photo's now? I have more than that on there. Good grief.

https://www.flickr.com/lookingahead


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Postby E7 » Sun Nov 04, 2018 2:34 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
Nortonville Phil wrote:It looks like Flikr is going to limit free accounts to 1000 photo's now? I have more than that on there. Good grief.

https://www.flickr.com/lookingahead


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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Nov 04, 2018 2:56 pm

E7 wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
Nortonville Phil wrote:It looks like Flikr is going to limit free accounts to 1000 photo's now? I have more than that on there. Good grief.

https://www.flickr.com/lookingahead


Things happen after getting sold to a for profit operation.


So. Isn't making a profit being a commercial enterprise part of the American capitalist way - build a business and make a profit? Or, did everyone of the entitlement socialist herd get spoiled using Flickr for free and expect that would continue forever?
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Postby E7 » Sun Nov 04, 2018 7:27 pm

Merely emphasizing the cause oh the dilemma! :mrgreen:

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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Nov 04, 2018 7:52 pm

E7 wrote:Merely emphasizing the cause oh the dilemma! :mrgreen:


There is no dilemma - pay up....but wait, you don't have a camera and so no pictures from you, so there's really no dilemma for you at all, :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby E7 » Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:53 am

What, me worry? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Actually, I have a digital SLR, but I haven't had (or taken) the time to mess with the thing. It is way low priority. I used to be pretty decent with the old T-50. Not a pro, but I did okay. I also have a digital cam that puts digital images onto 1.44 floppy discs. Cost a bunch back when, now an expensive paper weight! Used it for Feebay! :mrgreen:

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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Nov 05, 2018 8:50 am

E7 wrote:What, me worry? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Actually, I have a digital SLR, but I haven't had (or taken) the time to mess with the thing. It is way low priority. I used to be pretty decent with the old T-50. Not a pro, but I did okay. I also have a digital cam that puts digital images onto 1.44 floppy discs. Cost a bunch back when, now an expensive paper weight! Used it for Feebay! :mrgreen:


Now you do have a camera :roll: Low priority - hire a 6-year old to teach you how to use it.
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Re: SMUG MUG PHOTOS has just purchased FLICKR PHOTOS

Postby robert. » Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:12 pm

It is funny how people reacted. You get a free product for a little while. Then when a company wants you to pay. They scream. Those Mfers want to charge me. Harry's razor sent me a few razors free through the mail. Now those sobs want me to pay for the next shipment. :roll: :roll: :roll: If you are using a free product. Then you are the product. :mrgreen:
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