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• Empire second life flickr download#

Whereas SmugMug is more geared towards selling. You can follow each other, fav photos, leave comments and really interact with the artists that you follow. Flickr is a great place for photographers to share their work and get feedback because it works like a social network. However, it is a completely different animal from Flickr.

SmugMug has been a great source for real world photographers for many years. Reading his thoughts on the matter put me at ease about this whole situation. He feels since SmugMug is a platform that has always encouraged photographers and artists, they might make changes to Flickr that will be beneficial to all in the future. He’s not worried about the acquisition at all and in fact is looking forward to some positive changes in Flickr, finally. He’s a wonderful real world photographer and has connections both in Flickr and SmugMug headquarters. I was introduced to Thomas Hawk through Empire Avenue many years ago, and have been following his work since then. I was still worried about the future though and what it entails, until I read Thomas Hawk’s post: MY THOUGHTS ON THE SMUGMUG FLICKR ACQUISITION. So to me, it looks like Flickr will remain and will be business as usual, for the near future. Under #7 Acceptable Use they state that even nudity and such is allowed, as long as you have the correct filter setting, which is also currently the case in Flickr. Upon reading their terms, I noticed it was not much different from Flickr’s current TOS. On further inspection, I realized that my pictures are not going anywhere, they will still be on flickr, but now my flickr account will be governed by SmugMug’s Terms and Privacy Policy.

Empire second life flickr download#

I also received an email from Flickr, that I felt wasn’t as clear in its wording, which stated that my flickr account and data would be transferred to SmugMug on May 25th and if I didn’t want that to happen, I can download my photos and delete my flickr account. All of the images on my blog are hosted on flickr. I’ll be honest, when I first heard of the acquisition, I was worried. That’s why I felt it was important for me to write this post and possibly offer some alternatives and also try to settle some nerves. There is a huge Second Life community on flickr and we use it often to engage with each other. After years of being passed around from Yahoo to Verizon and not seeing a vast improvement on the platform, a lot of Flickr users seem to be worried about this new acquisition especially since the announcements, emails and TOS updates are not as clear.

On April 20th, 2018 SmugMug and Flickr simultaneously announced that Flickr was acquired by SmugMug.