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Hate Instagram? Here are nine way better places to share photos

Aug 1, 2022 by Jefferson Graham 15 Comments
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Everybody hates Instagram.

Well, not everybody, but it sure sounded like that this week. You certainly heard two Kardashian sisters, a Change.org petition and high-profile bloggers raising their voices in opposition to Instagram’s shifting to a virtual all-video platform.

It’s all part of the effort for Instagram and sister app Facebook to try and catch onto the success of TikTok, the China based app that has made a huge dent in not just Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, but Google as well.

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100ASA is a new photo-sharing community that blends Instagram and 1x

Sep 15, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic 8 Comments
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Now that Instagram is even officially not a photo-sharing platform anymore, you may be searching for the best alternative. Well, 100ASA wants to be your platform of choice. It’s a new photo-sharing platform that aims to beat Instagram. And from what I’ve seen so far, it blends some features from it with those of 1x, so let’s check out what it has to offer.

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500px’s latest change of terms sparks outrage among photographers

Dec 20, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 21 Comments
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It looks like 500px never lacks new reasons to make photographers angry. Users have recently received a notice that the website is changing its Terms of Service. The updated agreement has sparked some outrage among photographers, making them delete their accounts.

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Why limiting free users to 1,000 photos on Flickr is a smart move

Nov 4, 2018 by Thomas Hawk 2 Comments
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Yesterday Flickr made their first big restructuring announcement since recently being purchased by SmugMug. Beginning next year on January 8th, Flickr will limit free accounts to 1,000 photos. The previously offered free 1 terabyte of storage goes away. At the same time Flickr is returning their paid pro account to unlimited storage which had been their original offer before capping new Pro accounts at 1 terabyte back in 2013. If you were Pro before 2013 you were considered “old school” Pro and kept your unlimited storage, but new accounts were limited. Now all Pro accounts are back to being unlimited.

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Big changes coming to Flickr – and they’re ditching mandatory Yahoo logins

Nov 1, 2018 by Dunja Djudjic 10 Comments
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Since Flickr was acquired by SmugMug, I have been wondering what changes this will bring to the not-so-popular-anymore platform.  And now the big changes are finally coming. First of all, you soon won’t need a Yahoo! account to sign in to Flickr. But the changes are also coming to the Pro and Free accounts, limiting the free ones to 1,000 images.

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You might soon be able to reshare other people’s Instagram photos to your feed

Sep 21, 2018 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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It’s been a while since Instagram started allowing its users to share other people’s posts in their stories. If you thought it was only a matter of time when you’d be able to share stuff to your feed – it seems that this time might come soon. Instagram is currently testing the feature that will allow users to natively share other users’ posts to their feed, not just to Stories.

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Instagram to let you download your content after portability concerns

Apr 14, 2018 by John Aldred Add Comment
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Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s privacy & portability issues have been all over the news lately. Naturally, some attention has turned toward Instagram, too. After all, he owns them both, so why not look at both platforms? TechCrunch posted an article a few days ago about Instagram’s portability problem. That problem being that you’re unable to download your data.

While Facebook (sort of) allows you to do this (it’s never worked for me), Instagram doesn’t. In response, TechCrunch report that Instagram has announced that this feature is on the way.

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I’ve been sharing my photography for free on Unsplash for the past 4 years, here’s what I found

Jan 23, 2018 by Samuel Zeller 35 Comments
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What is Unsplash?

It’s a website where photographers can share high resolution images, make them publicly available for everyone for free even for commercial use. It was created in May 2013 by Stephanie Liverani, Mikael Cho and Luke Chesser in Montreal, Canada.

Four months after creation they hit one million total downloads, and a year after they had more than a million downloads per month.

Now there’s 400’000+ high resolution images hosted on Unsplash which are shared by 65’000+ photographers from all around the world.

Last month 2400 photographers joined Unsplash and shared 25’000 new images (not just snapshots, some really good photography).

Here’s a few examples below:

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Goodbye Instagram, hello Ello

Jan 17, 2018 by Samuel Zeller 39 Comments
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Do you remember Ello?

In the fall of 2014 headlines praised it as “the Facebook Killer”, apparently it was created as an ad-free alternative to existing social networks. Well guess what, it hasn’t died… their founders never intended it to be a Facebook killer.

It was always about artists, and it’s now better than ever.

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Why I am still using Flickr and struggling to leave it

Dec 21, 2017 by Dunja Djudjic 48 Comments
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For the past couple of months, there’s been a thought in the back of my head: “I should leave Flickr and move somewhere else.” The platform is changing and not in the direction I like. I have, then, become more active on the other photo sharing websites I use and I created accounts on a couple of new ones to try them out. I’m exploring my options. The result: I still have and actively use the Flickr account I’ve had since 2009.

Thinking about moving somewhere else is one thing. But as it turns out, actually doing it is much, much harder for me. It got me thinking why I so desperately cling to Flickr and what it is that makes all other platforms just “not good enough.”

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Dunja Djudjic: from diyphotography.netDunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.

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