Comments on: Say NO to videos on Flickr

By: Club Troppo » Missing Link Daily

Club Troppo » Missing Link Daily — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:08:33 +0000

[...] Video should not be allowed on Flickr. Discuss. [...]

By: mulletgod

mulletgod — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:35:05 +0000

elitist? i’m not sure i get what you mean niall, all web 2.0 sites are communities effectively owned by its users, that’s the inherent nature of it.. it’s hardly elitist of me to claim that providing an unnecessary and somewhat redundant service to flickr is a waste of time.

why are flickr spending time developing video for it when there are other things they can be improving within the photography side of the site (ie. slowness, contacts disappearing, upload limits going to zero at the wrong time, etc)?

i know i have the power to control what i see on there, and i already wield this power suitably. when the experience is compromised (slow speeds, etc) because of the additional features i choose not to use, i’m starting to feel a bit ripped off.

i’m happy to concede that the videos i’ve seen so far are quite good, it’s just that i hope flickr continues to spend time fixing up the things that i hope my $25 contributes towards instead of providing only partial support for everything.

By: Niall

Niall — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:15:14 +0000

What is it with the elitist, “Flickr is OUR community” schmoltz? It’s a moderated community already, albeit a busy one. As a user, you’re no doubt well aware that you can censor what you wish to view and what you don’t. If drunken 15 year olds on a camera phone don’t do it for you – and frankly I don’t blame you – then don’t look at it.

By: becky

becky — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:14:05 +0000

At first I agreed totally to ban videos, but after looking at some of the sample videos and reading a fair bit of the discussion, i’m thinking we should give it a go. the flickr community is very strong…maybe we’ll end up moderating it ourselves naturally?

By: mulletgod

mulletgod — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:33:47 +0000

that’s a very good point ed about the moderation. perhaps time will tell what the nature of the ‘community’ will become.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:31:06 +0000

I know what you mean about the YouTube comments. Maybe if 15 year olds had better tastes in music they’d be less angry…

But I think the difference is that YouTube doesn’t have the sense of community (and the regulation – both moderated and a degree of self-regulation that I think exists when posting) that flickr forums have; it’s just random comments, as opposed to any meaningful discussion between people.

Also I’d never really considered that my $25 gets me all the discussions etc; it was just somewhere cheap to upload unlimited numbers of photos and link them places.

By: James

James — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:25:08 +0000

Totally agree dude. Vimeo has a much better community for sharing video, it can display HD and let’s you upload videos at whatever length you like.

Let’s keep flickr exactly what it was intended to be – a photo sharing site.