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kristopher

I used to post at both Flickr and Zooomr for a while. I thought I always would actually. There are some things that I really like about Flickr. Their organizer as you mention really is top notch. The speed is the same for me here in the U.S. but of course our servers are here in the U.S. We hope to add more outside the U.S. in the near future.

What do I miss about Flickr? Mostly some of my friends there. A bunch are at Zooomr now too but some still there. So I probably miss that.

For me though I stopped posting over at Flickr mostly for political reasons. Mostly having to do with the incessant constant censorship. Me being censored, my friends being censored. I’m pretty sensitive to that though and it’s not an issue for most people. But I’m more political than most people.

Another big one for me was the resize issue. Flickr capped my file sizes at 10MB and many of my images are much larger than that. That’s probably less of an issue for you now, but in the Digital SLR world it’s a problem. I want perfect duplicates of my photos online as back up and with Flickr I could only save down sampled resized photos. If my house burns down and my drobo is dead and I have to as a last resort go back to my online backups I hated that my copies on Flickr were inferior than the originals that I keep on Zooomr.

I also find that I like the community at Zooomr better. In general, in my opinion, it is a smaller community with more talented photographers. I find myself as a photographer being pushed harder and driven more by the talent that I find on Zooomr than what I found on Flickr in general. That’s just a personal thing though and there are some amazingly talented people on both sites.

But you will do fine wherever you are my friend and should go with whatever works best for you. The important thing is to participate in *a* community. It doesn’t matter where the community is. It could be at Flickr. It could be at Zooomr. It could be at SmugMug. As long as you find the right community and find the feedback I think you’re doing well. The give/take of photosharing is a big part of it. Always give and always take. The love you make is equal to the love you take. The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Community goes hand in hand with shooting every day, processing every day, producing ever day. The art above all is what is important.

Rock on brother and see you around.

The best photographs it the world have yet to be taken!

I can’t get Pro on flickr without creditcard. That’s the fact! You right more users on Flickr but who want to be censored?!?!! Not me. I can’t see a lot of pictures when i use a german yahoo ID. This sucks! And why all the people wich switch (back again?!) tell this on public zipline. Move on it’s a free world. Get stuck with these anti-user yahoo managment. Sorry but Zooomr is new and needs to grow. That’s some problems on Zooomr but i remember the time back on flickr with my free account (deleting every month some pictures to get new photos online)

no more yahoo i said and i never switch back - NEVER! I think when Zooomr is completely online many people will switch again from flickr to zooomr. Its not only my word, this is a fact.

Well i will miss you on Zooomr.

Bye Bye!