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I find it hard to find anything of quality in Flickr these days. Other than a few photos, of course. But groups have gone from bad to worse, since Flickr first changed format a few years back. When masses abandoned it and it became "just another self indulgent photo site", where people share, share and share, only fishing for faves and that's all the interest there is to anyone. 10 years ago we had lots of interesting groups going with themes and a lot of discussion, don't know any of those anymore. Most my back then friends in Flickr are still there, but don't really post photos now. Their accounts have stood still for years. Tbh, I only post there to archive these days, to keep one more online stream of photos up. Digital photos are so vulnerable to all kinds of problems, so you have to have them in multiple places, or otherwise there's a chance you lose them all in one fell swoop, if your PC dies for example. Also, I'm not aware of any other photo sites these days that would be more like Flickr used to be? BBC and National Trust seem to both be running a lot of weekly/monthly themed photo competitions where people can post their photos in various forums, like FB, Instagram and Twitter, but I don't know if there's much conversation or learning happening there either. It's all about fame now, your 15 minutes in spotlight. |
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