[maxxxxx]

I am fine with going to Flickr Pro but this is also in the price range of a regular SmugMug account. Does anybody know how to decide between the two?

Also: this is is not the only criteria, but do any of them allow a custom domain?

[tolien]

Yeah, one of things I've been curious to see is how the two services are going to slot together.

Long term Flickr Pro user (signed up 2007) and when my Pro sub expires a year from now there's some compelling reasons to dump Flickr and migrate to SmugMug - not least that SM's had literally anything done with it in the last few years, while Flickr's just got clunkier and clunkier (but also that there's a bunch of old, not-good, photos that I don't really care about on there).

The quality of the "community" on both Flickr and 500px makes the de-prioritisation of the same on SmugMug an advantage too - there's way too much spam on Flickr, although even that's dropped off over the last few years.

[scblock]

Smugmug allows custom domains, including support for https. It also allows for custom branding and layout design (your name here, powered by Smugmug).

I wasn't able to get a bare domain (e.g. domainname.tld) to work directly, so i set up a redirect to www.domainname.tld from there and it's been good for me. I don't know if that has changed since I set it up.

[colanderman]

I can't speak for SmugMug specifically, but generally the reason you can't use bare domains to point to hosted services is that the hosted services want you to use a CNAME record so they can cycle in/out IP addresses at will. CNAME records aren't allowed on bare domains.

[maxxxxx]

Custom domains only seem to be available from the "Power" plan upwards as as I can tell.

Besides custom domain: what are the pros/cons of Flickr vs SmugMug?

[scblock]

I guess it depends on your use case. I'm interested in having my own gallery I can share, rather than a Flickr page. I prefer "my photo gallery site" to "my pictures on Flickr", so for me the custom domain and branding is important. I don't particularly care about the community aspects beyond viewing the photos of some of my friends, so that piece of Flickr holds little interest to me. Of course when I set it up I was also very disillusioned about Yahoo and wanted to get away from that and into something that felt more sustainable.

[th0br0]

SmugMug allows a custom domain. I'd argue that it's more private / less community oriented than SmugMug. Depends on what you want I guess; I've read about many people using 500px to upload some of their best shots as a portfolio & using smugmug for the rest.

[maxxxxx]

"Depends on what you want I guess; I've read about many people using 500px to upload some of their best shots as a portfolio & using smugmug for the rest."

That's what I do. Until now Flickr was my storage for all pictures and 500px only for my best.