<story><title>Dear Marissa Mayer...please make Flickr awesome again</title><url>http://dearmarissamayer.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bijanv</author><text>I think enough photographers have moved over to 500px (&lt;a href=&quot;http://500px.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://500px.com&lt;/a&gt;) to make Flickr a garbage dump of whatever you export from your digicam. And even still I feel people are preferring to do that through Dropbox now.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not really sure what Flickr could even potentially have going for it anymore to &apos;become awesome again&apos;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blhack</author><text>I&apos;m a [hobbyist] photographer, and I&apos;m friends with several people who make their living taking photos.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve never even heard of 500px.  It certainly isn&apos;t at a point of making flickr a garbage dump.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dear Marissa Mayer...please make Flickr awesome again</title><url>http://dearmarissamayer.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bijanv</author><text>I think enough photographers have moved over to 500px (&lt;a href=&quot;http://500px.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://500px.com&lt;/a&gt;) to make Flickr a garbage dump of whatever you export from your digicam. And even still I feel people are preferring to do that through Dropbox now.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not really sure what Flickr could even potentially have going for it anymore to &apos;become awesome again&apos;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deveac</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;#62;to make Flickr a garbage dump of whatever you export from your digicam. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a potential (massive) advantage to me. Having your service be ground zero for export from your cam and contain all your content? That can be exploited to good effect.</text></comment>