Mostly, I suppose, it comes down to convenience. Why then do I use Flickr?įor a photo community as lauded as Flickr once was, you might be wondering why I chose to use Flickr and continue to do so. What you’ve never had, you’ll never miss. Thus, I don’t feel as if I’m missing out on Flickr’s community element. While I might have noticed that far fewer people are looking at my photos now compared to say, five years ago, and indeed that fewer of my contacts are using Flickr to share their photos, I have never sought out feedback or affirmation from fellow Flickr users. I assign very few of my photos to groups and my participation in discussions is highly limited. I will admit that I never really indulged in Flickr for its photography community. Social sharers have gone to places with easier mobile uploading pros have sought out sites that make selling easy.
However, Flickr’s failure to implement a halfway decent mobile platform (it only became fully responsive in April 2017), its unrenewed stock deal with Getty Images, and the rise of other social media operations such as Facebook and Instagram have seen its user-base fall away. Flickr prided itself on having an active and vocal community of photographers who shared their knowledge, their feedback, their criticism, and their praise. Pay a visit to Quora and you’ll read a lot of anecdotal evidence of hard-core users noticing a drop in the number of views they’re receiving and a decline in community interaction. And it has a When you compare this against Instagram’s 0 to 700 million users between October 2010 and April 2017, the last 100 million of which were added in just four months (source: TechCrunch), Flickr’s growth looks decidedly wobbly. So that’s from 0 to 122 million in 12 years. However, I do have a source that claims Flickr had 122 million users in October 2016. Yahoo! doesn’t release user statistics for Flickr on a regular basis.
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