[saaaaaam]

Flickr was probably the first service I paid money for. I seem to recall shelling out $5(?) a month years back - maybe around 2009, possibly earlier - when I hit the 200 photos limit. I was more than happy to pay that back then, because they were doing something I valued. It was a frictionless way to share photos, and the community was nice. I used to actively go and flick through people’s photos, spending a few minutes each day looking at beautiful photography. I’ve not even attempted to log in to Flickr in years. Yahoo made a royal mess of it - in particular when the Flickr ID had to be tied to a Yahoo ID, I just gave up even attempting to log in. Rubbish. Will I pay again? Probably not. The web has moved on and there are easier ways to share photos now. The communities that were once those little communities like Flickr, united by a common passion and desire to show something special have been poisoned by the meme-driven, glib-comment-ridden everything-in-one-place race to the bottom of bigger social networks. Flickr was the product of a gentler, more innocent time.