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Maybe they simply don't consider it profitable enough? Flickr's done a remarkably bad job with taking advantage of the exploding popularity of mobile photograp

• justincormack 15y ago
  Or it is a cash cow and we are funding the rest of the crappy empire. Time to stop subscribing I think.
• leoedin 15y ago
  If they'd innovated when they really were at the peak of photo sharing (2007 maybe), then they could have easily captured those markets. As it is, nothing about flickr has changed in 5 years. That's a generation in internet terms. I couldn't find an exact number, but any user of Facebook knows that they've had at least 3 or 4 major facelifts in that time, along with a number of smaller component changes. Flickr had the market, but was killed by a lack of innovation. In the vein of many tech acquisitions, it was probably caused by politics.
  • _delirium 15y ago
    It's a bit cynical, but as a Flickr user I'm somewhat happy that it's stayed the same over the past 5 years, because I'd give it a 90% chance that if Yahoo had initiated a major overhall, they would've screwed up something major that I liked/used.