For everyone in SL who use Flickr

[Callum Meriman]

165 people have actually fallen for the "Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: TRY IT, YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS" chain email.

[loverdag]

15 hours ago, Skell Dagger said:

If you use Chrome, yes. Install the User Agent Switcher for Chrome extension. Then, whenever you want to upload to Instagram, click the toolbar icon and select either Android KitKat or iPhone 6/iPad as your new User Agent. Your browser tab will reload and you'll see the upload '+' sign at the bottom. Click it, browse to the photo you want to upload, and - once it's uploaded - just scroll to the lower left of the image and click the icon below:

That will fit the image to the upload window. Click 'Next' at the top right, add your text, tags, etc, and then click 'Share'. Simple

Important: Remember to change your User Agent back to Chrome Default as soon as you're done, otherwise every tab will start displaying the mobile version of any websites that you visit.

Thank you!

[loverdag]

3 hours ago, janetosilio said:

It’s not. Most people do those types of promos on Facebook and Instagram.

Flickr was kind of a catch all for pretty much anything. You’d get ads, sure. If you followed a designer. It was mostly bloggers and photographers though from SL. 

Already a lot of bloggers and designers are jumping ship and putting up links to Instagram. It’s going to be an interesting couple of months seeing how things shake out.

As Ayela already mentioned moderated and restricted content is allowed on Flickr, but usually not on other sites. Entire Instagram/Facebook family is strictly PG, but more than 50% of vendors / ads pictures I see daily on Flickr are moderate. 

Good point about Instagram wrote also Alles Klaar here in the comments: https://www.flickr.com/photos/strawberrysingh/43866043750/in/dateposted/

 

I beleive big part of SL community still ins't aware FB/Insta have some TOS and they aren't following them. So they build they promo on using SL names on FB or uploading moderate content on Insta. They can do that as long as nobody report them. But if you ask me, my choice would be Flickr, where I'm allowed to do so, not to build something against TOS with daily risk "today will be the day when someone will report me". Its waisted effort.

(I speak "in theory" because my landscape photography is save everywhere, so for me personaly its not big deal.)

Edited November 3, 2018 by loverdag

[Akasha Sternberg]

Well I´ve been Flickr Pro ever since I got Flickr I guess - or shortly afterwards so it doesn´t really affect me that much and my photos tend to be very PG, xept for swearing in the titles occasionally XD
I´m still on FB so...hm... idk, worst that could happen is that I merge my accounts  though I don´t see that comming, I´d prolly drop Kasha´s FB if I was reported.

One thingI will NEVER do in ANY life.... is join Instagram... I HATE HATE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE it.... Foodpics, Selfies (should be forbidden), Hashtags - URGH... eff no ^^ not for me^^

[AyelaNewLife]

8 hours ago, Akasha Sternberg said:

One thingI will NEVER do in ANY life.... is join Instagram... I HATE HATE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE it.... Foodpics, Selfies (should be forbidden), Hashtags - URGH... eff no ^^ not for me^^

At least hipstergram doesn't do the whole "thanks for using my pic as a group cover, let me just post a screencap of a thin bar to my stream so everyone else knows that I'm better than them" thing

Edited November 3, 2018 by AyelaNewLife

[Akasha Sternberg]

55 minutes ago, AyelaNewLife said:

At least hipstergram doesn't do the whole "thanks for using my pic as a group cover, let me just post a screencap of a thin bar to my stream so everyone else knows that I'm better than them" thing

I´d rather see those though....Damn I swear all those follow me on instagram pics make me wanna scream XD 

[LittleMe Jewell]

Truth be told, a large portion of Flickr folks are just like the Facebook/Instagram/Twitter crowd --- it is all about how many friends/followers/likes.

Sad how narcissistic too many of us have become (excluding all the playing around here in the forums, of course)

Edited November 3, 2018 by LittleMe Jewell

[AyelaNewLife]

46 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

Truth be told, a large portion of Flickr folks are just like the Facebook/Instagram/Twitter crowd --- it is all about how many friends/followers/likes.

Sad how narcissistic too many of us have become (excluding all the playing around here in the forums, of course)

Not wrong to be honest. There's a thin line between using faves or faves-per-view to self-evaluate your work, and seeing the faves as an end in itself.

Not helped by the blogger crowd, where raw follower/fave numbers matter more than anything else because advertising.

Edit: I got the crying face reaction, so clarification time: stores use follower count and faves as metrics to judge which bloggers are "worthy" of their patronage. Fashion bloggers don't make the rules of the game, they just play along.

Edited November 3, 2018 by AyelaNewLife
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[Akasha Sternberg]

1 hour ago, AyelaNewLife said:

Not wrong to be honest. There's a thin line between using faves or faves-per-view to self-evaluate your work, and seeing the faves as an end in itself.

Not helped by the blogger crowd, where raw follower/fave numbers matter more than anything else because advertising.

sad but true though... I don´t see their point though cos meaningless clicks as in "oh... pic in group..I give you some  "award" badge in the comment now you have to like x photos, too" are ever so often and while I don´t participate in those shenanigans I get these "awards" in some groups not specifically aimed at that   makes me chuckle but that´s it

well now I have to edit, too - I used the cry reaction in combination with my post cos it made me sad... as in a REACTION.... I´m a blogger myself (not as famous, but still.... *points to her sig* Blogger since 2011) and I´m VERY aware of the existence and  hate it with a passion. I tend to avoid those designers, maybe even stop buying their stuff.

Like Skell (see below) I blog what pleases me and while I do add my pictures to the groups I see fit I avoid the ones I´ve mentioned above...and I don´t do it because of the likes but for the fun or cos the item inspired me... so yeah... SOME play along and some say eff it - do you want that free advertisement my blogging would give you or not?

Edited November 3, 2018 by Akasha Sternberg
explaining and stuffs

[Skell Dagger]

11 minutes ago, AyelaNewLife said:

Fashion bloggers don't make the rules of the game, they just play along.

Some of us do. Not all of us, though From the Review Policy page on my blog:

[Tarani Tempest]

45 minutes ago, AyelaNewLife said:

Edit: I got the crying face reaction, so clarification time: stores use follower count and faves as metrics to judge which bloggers are "worthy" of their patronage. Fashion bloggers don't make the rules of the game, they just play along.

I know this may be true for some stores.  But I know it is not for all of us.  The few bloggers I have asked to blog for me, were chosen for their creativity. period.  I don't have any sort of rules for those that blog for me either.  I only ask that they blog what inspires them, and that they post it to my Store's Flickr....so .....OK, I have 2 rules

I only felt the need to point this out, because I always cringe when I see groups of people painted with a broad brush.  So...just a friendly nudge, a reminder...that both bloggers and designers are not all the same  

 

[Skell Dagger]

8 minutes ago, Tarani Tempest said:

I only ask that they blog what inspires them

And from a blogger, you have no idea how rare and wonderful that is. Thank you for letting your bloggers do their thing and be inspired, rather than setting rigid rules.

(Disclaimer: I don't blog for Tarani, although I do own quite a bit of her makeup - lol!)

[AyelaNewLife]

42 minutes ago, Tarani Tempest said:

I know this may be true for some stores.  But I know it is not for all of us.  The few bloggers I have asked to blog for me, were chosen for their creativity. period.  I don't have any sort of rules for those that blog for me either.  I only ask that they blog what inspires them, and that they post it to my Store's Flickr....so .....OK, I have 2 rules

I only felt the need to point this out, because I always cringe when I see groups of people painted with a broad brush.  So...just a friendly nudge, a reminder...that both bloggers and designers are not all the same  

You're completely right of course, I should have added that all important word "most" so it didn't sound like I was blaming every single creator.

[Bebe Bunny]

I'm not a blogger but I liked flickering for fun, I switched to Instagram.

[ClariceRose]

Thank you Jeny, for bringing this up. I did not see your post as being in panic mode. Geez, people need to stop assuming that they are able to decipher emotions from typed text. If Jeny says that she did not post to put up a panic then take her word for it. Wow.

Although it was determined that SL photography is indeed welcome on Flickr, Jeny brought this up BEFORE she understood that.

Again, thank you Jeny.

[Selene Gregoire]

3 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

Truth be told, a large portion of Flickr folks are just like the Facebook/Instagram/Twitter crowd --- it is all about how many friends/followers/likes.

Sad how narcissistic too many of us have become (excluding all the playing around here in the forums, of course)

I have like 9 images on Flickr, don't have Instagram or twitter and post on FB maybe once a year. Well except during the pipeline protest and that was just sharing what others posted.

I'm not anti-social, just not real social(able).

[Skell Dagger]

The level of sheer entitlement from many people in the Flickr forum about this is absolutely breathtaking. Look at this guy:

He has a free account, and has uploaded 50,000 images. Flickr has been storing and hosting those 50,000 images for him, absolutely free of charge. Not only that, but he also hotlinks to those images across multiple locations, thereby pulling from Flickr's bandwidth every time any of those images are viewed on the websites he's hotlinked them to. That's what we all do when we embed inline Flickr images (or any images from another website) here: we're using that site's bandwidth. Do it on a large scale like Mr 50k and yes you damn well should be paying for the privilege.

Yet, despite enjoying that free ride for all those years, he thinks Flickr are being unfair and compares them to Photobucket, who wanted $300 per year for the ability to hotlink images hosted on their site.

He's far from the only person with thousands of images, hosted for free (and hotlinked elsewhere) who is complaining. Here's another, with 3,000 free-hosted and hotlinked images. This person would have been happy to pay "a small fee" to continue doing that, but baulks at paying 0.0167cents per image:

JFC

Edited November 5, 2018 by Skell Dagger

[Kia Kiyori]

On 11/4/2018 at 7:56 AM, Skell Dagger said:

Some of us do. Not all of us, though From the Review Policy page on my blog:

Oooh! Wish I'd thought to add something like that to mine. Skell. Great stuff! Besides, there's nothing mentally 'hygienic' about sheeple mentality. Pity more don't realize that.

Why any self-respecting photographer/blogger would allow an outsider to use flattery (yes, they do) to manipulate them into their constricting little boxes of 'do this', 'do that' and 'always do things my way', is beyond me. I refuse to aid and abet their egos.

In fact...I blow raspberries in their general direction.

[Josephine Carissa]

*waving hello*

thought this might also be of interest to everyone:

https://strawberrysingh.com/2018/11/03/flickr-tips-for-virtual-world-and-digital-artists/

Kind Regards,

Josephine

[AyelaNewLife]

14 hours ago, Skell Dagger said:

The level of sheer entitlement from many people in the Flickr forum about this is absolutely breathtaking. Look at this guy:

[snip]

JFC

Weren't free Flickr accounts limited to just 200 photos up until 2013? So the "good faith over 15 years" bit is utter tripe anyway.

 

Also, I didn't notice this part of the blog earlier:

Quote

Lastly, we looked at our members and found a clear line between Free and Pro accounts: the overwhelming majority of Pros have more than 1,000 photos on Flickr, and more than 97% of Free members have fewer than 1,000. We believe we’ve landed on a fair and generous place to draw the line.

#theyarethe3%

Edited November 6, 2018 by AyelaNewLife

[Talligurl]

So I have begun to  reduce the number of  pictures  I have on Flickr, I had over 5000 on my free account, hoping to get that below 1000 before the new rules, the first to go, 900 pictures with a restricted rating, sorry guys no  more porn on my Flickr.

[Ceka Cianci]

I like flickr to put my images on and that's really about it..That and I like to look at other peoples stuff also..

I've been on flickr since it started..I think out of all that time, I might have 50 maybe 60 followers..A lot of that is more than likely from posting my images to the picture threads in the forums over the years..

I might get a couple hits every couple of images or so,but I really don't use flickr for that stuff..

The reason I started using it was ,because you could put a lot of images there,where a lot of places used to be really limited on space..

I think they were one of the first places to offer gigs of space vs megabytes of space.

[elixdude]

I don't know, but those "blogger" I see who promotes creator's mesh makes me think they do it to get their favourite creator's mesh without paying at all, so the payment is their blog.

Maybe I'm wrong thinking like this, but that's what I thought with all of this "blogging" on flickr.

[Cindy Evanier]

12 minutes ago, elixdude said:

I don't know, but those "blogger" I see who promotes creator's mesh makes me think they do it to get their favourite creator's mesh without paying at all, so the payment is their blog.

Maybe I'm wrong thinking like this, but that's what I thought with all of this "blogging" on flickr.

Those who try that don't last very long at all.  The creator wants to see a bloggers history, ie the quality of their pictures, their blog, the length of time they have been blogging for instance.  A creator will remove a blogger who is not fulfilling the requirements if they get taken on in the first place that is.   Other bloggers are just doing it for their own enjoyment and actually purchase the items themselves and blog/post pictures because it's their hobby

[Selene Gregoire]

58 minutes ago, Cindy Evanier said:

Those who try that don't last very long at all.  The creator wants to see a bloggers history, ie the quality of their pictures, their blog, the length of time they have been blogging for instance.  A creator will remove a blogger who is not fulfilling the requirements if they get taken on in the first place that is.   Other bloggers are just doing it for their own enjoyment and actually purchase the items themselves and blog/post pictures because it's their hobby

In addition to the hobbyists, there are also the runway models that blog new releases. At least there used to be. I don't know of any of the modeling schools that don't require blogging while taking classes. Many models do continue to blog once they have graduated.