Been a Flickr pro user since 2008, highly recommended as an image host. No bullshit, just does what it is supposed to do… serve your images.

It is! As someone who has used it since 2007 I can’t imagine why more don’t. First, there are no ads if you pay. Second, I have access on my phone or any computer to all of my work that I’ve uploaded there in high res that I can download and access anywhere I am. I aggressively tag my shots in Lightroom and those tags are in the metadata and go to Flickr. So I can find any shot based on a simple search. Plus once you find other people who are active it is a very vibrant community.

Flickr is still somehow usable as it was 10 years ago.

And this is what I find super weird about it and other somehow older bigger sites like pinterest and some others who were amazing 10 years ago and since then, not really improved for the user. This is for me beyond imagination. Why, really why the F. they stopped improving for the user - if I visit these sites they are really like 10 years ago with the same problems and also benefits. It is like they dismissed all their developers 10 years ago and just had one for some marketing lipstick and nothing more. I really don’t get this… why they stopped improving.

Yes, Flickr is still useful and there are still good photographers using it. As someone else before me said, the film photography community is the best.

I suggest looking at Behance as well.

I use 500x.com , there is free and paid plains.

Flickr is a great platform to begin with and you can use the Flickr storage as a backend for your own website. It’s not as fast as using an image CDN, but the speed difference is not that noticeable.

Take a look at Nanogallery: https://nanogallery2.nanostudio.org/. With some very basic PHP/HTML skills and understanding of JavaScript you can go a long way.

Flickr is still useful, but I personally prefer Smugmug (who bought Flickr some years ago).

I haven’t used Flickr in a while, but I still get the occasional fave or even comment (that are not bots) on my older stuff.

Compared to my photography twitter account which sees nothing on my old posts, or my IG which sees next to nothing also, personally I’d say Flickr is still the most useful.

It’s pretty much the only thing I use. Instagram is terrible, but Flickr has remained pretty damned good.

I still use Flickr and even pay for it. I don’t use it to browse other people’s photos much, but I did join groups for all the different lenses I use/want to buy to help research. Flickr is also great for sharing pictures with family members - I turn on the download option and they can grab full size jpegs.

I find Flickr very useful when considering a lens or body. Using the search feature to filter by type narrows it down to what other people have shot. You get a good mix of art shots and snapshots.

I still pay for Flickr - like others have said, it’s very easy to share with other people, especially people not on the platform. There’s also integration with Lightroom, which makes it incredibly simple to upload images. Stats are fun, despite the fact that I don’t really know how to use the information to increase my own visibility. I found out that a college professor uses one of my images on their coursework website, which was neat (I CC-license all my digital work).

Potential downsides - a while back, the site changed their policy on “visibility” to encourage more public-facing images, so I think there’s now a limit on how many images you can set to private or restricted viewing. (Maybe this has changed again, it doesn’t really affect me much so I lost track of where this is at.) I also find discoverability a little challenging, especially with regards to Groups; specifically, I want to be able to browse lots of Groups and I can’t figure out how to do that. The “community” stuff in general still seems to be lacking a bit, but maybe I’m using it wrong.

Reminds me of a comment from several years ago on a post about the future of flickr that i agreed with:

Slight off topic but a lot of people hate the site and welcome its demise but i still use flickr because i can’t find anything else that does what it does, it’s not perfect but it feels like a website made for photographers.

Sure other sites can do some of these but a list of things i like about it: -

• Albums & collections: very easy to create and organize, makes finding things later on much nicer, just wish more people used collections though.

• Tagging: Works very much like lightroom and can even pull LR tags automatically. The ability to search my own tags and narrow down by tags, flickr even adds its own ones and you can search by pre-dominant colour in a photo. I can go to a list of all my tags when trying to find all photos from a particular camera, film, place etc. very useful.

• EXIF: If photo has exif data it’s clearly displayed on the page and i can click through for extensive exif data as well. If a photo has GPS data in it there is a world map there and you can quickly drill down to where it was taken.

• Easily select various sized copies or the original, if made available, and the share button has various options for social media sites, email and bbcode for forums, very nice.

• Privacy settings are varied enough and useful, public/private/friends/family, change who is allowed to comment or add tags.

• Select what kind of copyright (or lack thereof) i want on photos, has 9 different options to quickly select from.

• Stats page for each photo with graphs and even where the viewers came from, there is also a summary stats page where i can see various things about all my photos. The Recent Activity page as well, lets me see if anyone has commented or favourited any photos so i can quickly respond.

• People page, you can see the most recent 5 photos from people you follow, makes it easy to keep up with their activity as not everyone is prolific.

While professionals will still be better off with their own personal websites on other hosts, flickr, for the most part, does feel like a site made for photographers, not social media snapshots and engagement farming, though they have tried to court that, it still at the core offers a feature set not available on other hosts that i am personally familiar with.

I love using Flickr when I’m looking at a new lens. It’s great to get an idea of what kind of framing I’ll be able to get from a particular lens. I haven’t posted in nearly a decade, but it is nice to use when I need it.