photo sharing website

[Koda]

Smugmug is awesom and so far has met all my expectations...

[justpeachy]

The new flickr design is taking some getting used to, and I know a lot of people really hate it, but it's not so bad. I've been using it since 2005, I have almost 10,000 photos on there, and it would be a pain to switch now.

I know of some photographers who use 500px. I have never used it but it's worth looking into if you don't want to pay for Smug Mug and don't like flickr: http://500px.com

[Waffle Stomper]

The new flickr design is taking some getting used to, and I know a lot of people really hate it, but it's not so bad. I've been using it since 2005, I have almost 10,000 photos on there, and it would be a pain to switch now.

I know of some photographers who use 500px. I have never used it but it's worth looking into if you don't want to pay for Smug Mug and don't like flickr: http://500px.com

I agree with you on that. I have both. Still like Flickr better. They all change at sometime, 500px and Google+ both did.

[kepPNW]

Photobucket just went through a terrible change, too.

I've been playing with Flickr, just recently, so didn't get to know it's "before" state, and for many/most of my purposes it seems as good as it gets right now.

Biggest bonus is the (supposed!) 1TB of free space! Free sets and collections, now, too, which I understand used to be part of the premium accounts? Haven't seen an ad on it, yet.

I really detest the concept of a "photostream," though. To me, that's just plain dumb. But I guess that's always been their design? So maybe I just don't "get it" yet. I suppose that's the ugly price for having sets rather than folders?

[justpeachy]

I really detest the concept of a "photostream," though. To me, that's just plain dumb. But I guess that's always been their design? So maybe I just don't "get it" yet. I suppose that's the ugly price for having sets rather than folders?

Yes, flickr has always had the "photostream." They probably kept that in the new design to mimic the way so many other websites work (facebook, blogs, hiking forums ), with the newest content being displayed first and then you have to scroll down or go to another page to see older content.

[kepPNW]

I really detest the concept of a "photostream," though. To me, that's just plain dumb. But I guess that's always been their design? So maybe I just don't "get it" yet. I suppose that's the ugly price for having sets rather than folders?

Yes, flickr has always had the "photostream." They probably kept that in the new design to mimic the way so many other websites work (facebook, blogs, hiking forums ), with the newest content being displayed first and then you have to scroll down or go to another page to see older content.

I suppose it works fine for very limited content. But it can't possibly scale to the scope they envision when offering a terrabyte of storage. Imagine if your hard disk was organized like that! Could be nice to control the initial view folks got, maybe?

[TJ_T]

Smugmug is awesom and so far has met all my expectations...

Glad you like it!