This is a good example of what is going to vanish from Flickr in a few months. 1600 photos, not a Pro account, declared in the text to be public domain but in metadata to be under copyright, so not protected as CC. Easy to save things now, but not to find what should be savedhttps://twitter.com/cjane87/status/1060902502411972608 …
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Replying to @enf
I'm super sad about this end of an era, though I must say that I have seen this coming for a while now. So many nice friends made on Flickr. So much context.
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Replying to @shanand
I'm glad they are stabilizing it instead of either pulling the plug entirely or letting it continue to atrophy, but I don't think anyone understands the magnitude of historical materials that will be lost in the process
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What do you think the realistic options are?
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If they just want to get rid of the hosting liability, I wish they would hand over the unwanted images to the Internet Archive, which I think does want them
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Ah, I didn’t know about that. Any idea why won’t they?
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They might be discussing it and I just don't know about it
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Got it. Yeah. There’s always a layer of politics, too.
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I should have been clearer too: these particular images will be OK, because they are recently posted. The ones that will be deleted are further back in this user's photo stream
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Yeah, but that’s kind of arbitrary, right? I see links to old Flickr photos almost daily in my research.
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Replying to @mwichary
Yes, absolutely. A lot of those old interesting photos will be lost, and it's hard to know which ones they will be
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