Alternatives to flickr? - Page 3

LeicaFoReVer · 08-05-2010

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Originally Posted by ampguy

to check out Keith - zivity.com - you can get paid, if the subscribers like your photos. I don't use the site, it's a bit raunchy for me, but it might be great for others. Some other RFF'ers are there, and I think are making big bucks.

You can try the site out by sending an email to temphoto@zivity.com

It sounds interesting. I will check this one out. My computer at work has filtered the word "sex" when I tried to open zivity.com

Is it really a photo site?

ampguy · 08-05-2010

there is supposedly a SFW mode, I haven't tried it though.

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Originally Posted by LeicaFoReVer

It sounds interesting. I will check this one out. My computer at work has filtered the word "sex" when I tried to open zivity.com

Is it really a photo site?

antiquark · 08-05-2010

I also found this mentioned in a flickr thread. It's almost a flickr clone:
http://www.ipernity.com/

cidereye · 08-05-2010

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Originally Posted by antiquark

I also found this mentioned in a flickr thread. It's almost a flickr clone:
http://www.ipernity.com/

Nice share, and FREE too.

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Edit - Seems not for a Pro a/c:- 24 euros a year, ah well.

charjohncarter · 08-05-2010

Flickr has become a mess with this new format. But has anyone figured how to 'replace' a photo on this new jumble. Thanks in advance.

Edit: it is under actions; upper left.

lawrence · 08-06-2010

I used to be able to grab the URL of any of my photos on Flickr and paste into a message on RFF but now this doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something or is this one of the 'enhancements'?

tom.w.bn · 08-06-2010

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Originally Posted by lawrence

I used to be able to grab the URL of any of my photos on Flickr and paste into a message on RFF but now this doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something or is this one of the 'enhancements'?

Just passing the url into the forum never worked with flickr (old or new). You have to past it into an IMG tag here. And get the url of the photo itself and not the url of the page where your photo is displayed.

lawrence · 08-06-2010

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Originally Posted by tom.w.bn

Just passing the url into the forum never worked with flickr (old or new). You have to past it into an IMG tag here. And get the url of the photo itself and not the url of the page where your photo is displayed.

Which is what I used to do. In other words, I used to got to the size I wanted and grab the link. However now when I go to Flickr I cannot find the link to post into the IMG tag. No doubt I'm being a bit blind here so your advice on how to find it would be appreciated...

jackbaty · 08-06-2010

I'm guessing they made grabbing the actual photo URLs more difficult because you're not supposed to directly embed them on external sites (e.g. RFF). They ask (require?) that you link back to the original photo, and they provide that link under the "Share" button.

You can still click an image to "zoom" it, select the "View all sizes" link in the upper right and then right click the image to copy the URL. A little extra work, but doable.

The Replace option is under the Actions menu, along with just about everything else you might want to do with an image.

lawrence · 08-06-2010

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Originally Posted by jackbaty

You can still click an image to "zoom" it, select the "View all sizes" link in the upper right and then right click the image to copy the URL. A little extra work, but doable.

That works -- many thanks.

peterm1 · 08-06-2010

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Originally Posted by lawrence

Which is what I used to do. In other words, I used to got to the size I wanted and grab the link. However now when I go to Flickr I cannot find the link to post into the IMG tag. No doubt I'm being a bit blind here so your advice on how to find it would be appreciated...

Its not a blind spot Its a fault of the new layout.....I am sure that when testing it, it was still possible to get the link in the old manner, but it now seems to have disappeared in the final version.

The only way I can find to do this is to open the image by clicking on the thumbnail in my photo-stream, and then right clicking it to bring up a menu asking what size you want to open the image as. After you make this selection, the image will open as the size you you have selected and then you need to right click again on the image once more and a context sensitive menu pops up. One of the menu items is "Properties." Click on that item and the image address will appear in a box that you then must copy and paste from then close - Jeebus what an effing too do! That's about a half a dozen steps to do something that used to take two. Does not someone on Flickr staff understand how a high proportion of folk us it. i.e. A major reason I use Flickr is to host my images so I can link to them here and at similar forums.

Its a bloody nuisance and is almost enough to make me change to another image site.

Edit - I have just found a menu item called "Share this" when you open the image. And under that is a further menu item - "Get the Link" But it gives you no choice as to image size - you get the link you are given.

lawrence · 08-06-2010

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Originally Posted by peterm1

Edit - I have just found a menu item called "Share this" when you open the image. And under that is a further menu item - "Get the Link" But it gives you no choice as to image size - you get the link you are given.

And if you post that link into an IMG tag on RFF it doesn't work, so right clicking on the size you want is they way to go but, as you say, it's a long way to do something that used to be simple

JeffL · 08-06-2010

OK. Got it. Thanks for the help in posting from the new Flickr.

antiquark · 08-06-2010

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Originally Posted by mackigator

If you're anti-flickr because of a perceived layout problem, you are sort of missing the point. A gallery it is not. Social media it is.

I suspect you're right. I bet they're heading towards the "facebook" layout for things. Instead of a photostream, flickr will have an "info stream."

So, along with the regular sequence of photos, your photostream will be interspersed with your activities, like:

"Antiquark favorited someone's photo"
"Antiquark commented on someone's photo"
"Antiquark joined a new group."
"Antiquark left some other group."

... and so on.

Not sure I'll be crazy about that. But facebook now has more photographs than flickr. So, at least in the "quantity" metric, flickr is losing the war. And as any dullard manager knows, the only way to beat the competition is to imitate the competition.

kitaanat · 08-06-2010

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Originally Posted by antiquark

I suspect you're right. I bet they're heading towards the "facebook" layout for things. Instead of a photostream, flickr will have an "info stream."

So, along with the regular sequence of photos, your photostream will be interspersed with your activities, like:

"Antiquark favorited someone's photo"
"Antiquark commented on someone's photo"
"Antiquark joined a new group."
"Antiquark left some other group."

... and so on.

Not sure I'll be crazy about that. But facebook now has more photographs than flickr. So, at least in the "quantity" metric, flickr is losing the war. And as any dullard manager knows, the only way to beat the competition is to imitate the competition.

Flickr also added a mechanism to let they have some profit by licensing a picture with GettyImages too.

jackbaty · 08-08-2010

Looks like my hunch was right about why the direct image link is no longer available.

From: http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/#2265887

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The direct link to a photo file is no longer shown on the page. Per the Flickr Community Guidelines "pages on other websites that display content hosted on flickr.com must provide a link from each photo or video back to its page on Flickr." Linking directly to the photo file doesn't do this.

We understand that many people were using that link on message boards to show their images and we are working on a solution that will allow you to post using BBCode (standard message board code) that links back.