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I have ditched iPhoto as my archiving software and moved my +150GB of photos and videos to Flickr

Nice! Glad it works for you. I suspect that a lot of people won't be using Flickr for everything because of NSFW photos that shouldn't live off the hard drive. That's certainly a concern for me.

I'd definitely emphasize this: "a better Mac/Windows/Linux native app would go a long way for power users" is a huge one. Right now the OS X version doesn't simply default to intelligent settings, which is bothersome: it should start uploading as soon as a photo is selected (along the lines of Instagram).

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Hahaha! To be honest I haven't got any personal NSFW pics, maybe I'm not living life to the fullest! Maybe it'll go on my bucket list.

To each their own! There may also be demographic factors at work: I'm 29 and was among the first of my friends in college to use a digital camera. Certainly among my peer cohort sending / receiving NSFW pics is a common practice, but I obviously can't speak for everyone.

I suspect there are a lot of people like me out there, who would be leery of wholesale uploading to Flickr, for fear of missing a couple shots that shouldn't be public. I do use Flickr, but only for selected shots: https://www.flickr.com/photos/91262622@N02/ , some of which are just website storage. Others are experiments; for example, I bought an Olympus OM-D recently and have spent a lot of time getting accustomed to the camera.

Same age. I'm clearly hanging out with the "wrong friends"

You should put your e-mail address (obfuscated) in your profile; I was about to send you a message about this that's too specific to be of interest to most HN readers.

Well now I want to know.

Flickr has reasonably fine-grained privacy controls. There are a lot of people who do post the occasional NSFW picture right in with their regular photostream.

You can mark it private to yourself only, or family, or contacts, and anyone not in those groups will never see it. You can and should also mark it as having a different "safety" level - by default people browse Flickr in a "safe" mode, unless they change their account settings. Such people, even if you've authorized them, will be prompted to click through. This is my favorite setting, as a clicked-through image has an emergency kitten escape button.

Finally there are "passes" for certain photos that can override any other security setting. So it could be private to you, but you can give someone a pass (a special URL) to see it. You can revoke the passes later if you want.

Can't you set the default for uploaded photos to private? That would seem to solve the issue of using it to archive everything, and then let you selectively choose what to share.

>Nice! Glad it works for you. I suspect that a lot of people won't be using Flickr for everything because of NSFW photos that shouldn't live off the hard drive. That's certainly a concern for me.

This is the most tangential and unnecessary thing I've read on HN all the years that I've been here.

I mean, DOH! Your XXX candid shots will stay in your hard drive, how is that a surprise or relevant to the discussion?

> how is that a surprise or relevant to the discussion

Lots of people will have _some_ photos that would be a bad idea to post on Flickr. Anyone with children, for example, will certainly have photos that obviously shouldn't appear on a public website.

Which means there's a very large set of people who can't save _everything_ on Flickr, and since the original post said 'I have ditched iPhoto as my archiving software', it seems completely relevant.

It's a new class of humblebrag.

Maybe go back and re-read the comment, it's pretty obvious, but I can spell it out for the language challenged. He has photos that since some shouldn't be put on a public photo site, and since sorting them out isn't easy, a local hard drive based solution is still preferable for him. I should think a lot of people are in this place. They don't want their children on the web, or their girlfriend. I realize this country was founded by religious zealots he'll bent on eliminating any fun, but it's a fact of life that a lot of people have naked photos!

>Maybe go back and re-read the comment, it's pretty obvious, but I can spell it out for the language challenged.

We, "language challenged" don't need it spelt out thank you, we got it the first time.

It's not what the comments says we find problematic, is why he deemed it relevant to say it. I mean since it goes without saying that this situation applies to some people, and that not everybody can share everything in Flickr.

It's like posting on an article about a cool new email client, and somebody commenting "Alas, I can't use this for everything I mail, because a lot of that are physical packages, not just emails". Well, duh!

>I realize this country was founded by religious zealots he'll bent on eliminating any fun, but it's a fact of life that a lot of people have naked photos!

Well, that was not my issue with his comment. For one, I could not care less -- I'm from another country, and I won't even raise an eyebrow for people having naked photos (or any kind of fun for that matter).

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