Flickr....

[kyrielle]

So far, actually, pretty pleased with Flickr. Will play with it and use it for photos for a little while, if the favorable impression continues (and I suspect it will since I know others who like them and my main concern at this point would be service outages or screwups, which irritate most people), then I'll definitely be switching my main photo hosting there and getting a paid account. (When people do things the way you want, I figure you should support them. Buzznet wasn't, and really, no benefit for me. Ironically there is not a lot of benefit at Flickr for me in paying, unless I start taking many more photos, since everything else is good for free accounts as well. But it's right, if they're doing everything I wanted, and besides it would let me upload, well, tons. *grins*)

Update: I do not like their upload paradigm. It takes the title from the file name, and the timestamp from the file. You can edit them after but you can't set the time on upload in any of their tools I've yet used, and you can only set the title on upload from the web page (but, at least you can!). How ugly is that? And since they are editable later, you'd think it would be dirt simple to make it easy to edit them as you upload. Most of the tools (and even the web page as far as timestamps) seem to think it's more important to process multiples than to process a single one correctly. I completely disagree.

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[(Anonymous)]

Tell flickr what you think or start a discussion thread. They are quite responsive. There have been a few occasional service issues and maybe I should complain.
They don't like nude photos :-( and censor tastefully taken shots.
Thanks for passing by my stream.
Love the ashley brilliant quote.
How's Livejournal for you?
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Art Ascii (Paul)
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Re: Flickr

[kyrielle]

I may eventually, but, I'm shy about speaking up and the first communication that I had from them about a question of mine was a little uncomfortable. I'm not very impressed with their ability to communicate so far and it makes me reluctant to try and perhaps get another such moment. Also, I'd just as soon use the service and get used to it a bit before I start listing what I wish would change. But in the upload arena, they're behind Buzznet in terms of web page interface. In terms of non-browser upload, I don't think Buzzznet has any, but I do think it should be at least as feature-rich as the web page upload where possible....

LiveJournal I like very much. Now and then I get annoyed if it is down for a little while, but that does not happen very often. The last time it did, someone hit the emergency power off button for the colocation facility....