[alceufc]

Flickr was -- and maybe still is -- very useful for the computer vision research community.

[tedd4u]

This is old news but we put together a 100M item dataset from Flickr as well, all Creative Commons licensed, including lots of metadata from users as well as some pre-computed features. It's called the YFCC100M.

http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/89783581601/one-hundred-mil...

[mapmap]

Is a Creative Commons license for research only or can it be used for commercial purposes if you attribute the original author?

[mintplant]

Flickr is great for finding Creative Commons-licensed images as well.

[TeMPOraL]

How do they use it? Does it have a good programmatic access? Because UX-side, I'm surprised they still exist. I don't know of a single photo-related web site that has worse UI and is more annoying to use than Flickr.

[stass]

This is extremely biased. A lot of people, myself included, find it easy and pleasant to use. Honestly, I'm not aware of a single alternative with a better UI/UX -- 500px maybe?

As for programmatic access -- Flickr has a good API interface.

[microtonal]

I'm not aware of a single alternative with a better UI/UX

I don't use it anymore, but SmugMug.

[stass]

SmugMug is great! It's a little bit different from Flickr though -- SmugMug is more of a personal photo hosting/portfolio website, while Flickr is more about photographers community. I believe the social aspects of Flickr are much more important than it's actual photo storage capabilities!

[Pxtl]

It's funny, since Flickr was at the beginning the best of them. Google's PicasaWeb was comparatively bad.

Yahoo really let themselves get leapfrogged on that one.

[PaulHoule]

My trouble with the UX is that it is slow, slow, slow. I live in Frontier country and I have DSL, but there are many photo web sites that are faster than flickr.

I hardly upload anything to flickr anymore because the interface for that is so slow.

[aswanson]

Amazing...did not know that. Thanks.