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by jeffbee 56 days ago
To me, Flickr is the better Photo.net. Photo.net has been around since 1993 and apparently is still running, but it never was a site where you could just collect your own work and share them the way you wanted. It would be interesting to read about how Flickr succeeded against an older, established competitor.
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photo.net is the water cooler. flickr is the portfolio. They're different. I never talked to anyone on flickr. I'm still friends with people from photo.net
photo.net is more like a public ridicule session that Maoists would have dreamed up. It was impossible to just post a photo there without every rando on the site feeling like they needed to criticize your composition and exposure.