Moving from Flickr to SmugMug
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 20:38 
Over the last couple of years, I've been storing my photos online @ Flickr. But I fear that time has come to move forward. Forward to another service for the next couple of years. The main reason for moving is that Flickr doesn't seem to innovate. No innovation basically means going backwards, in these days.
Flickr is a WYSIWYG environment. What you see is what you get, and not in the way this term is usually used on the Interwebs. There's no way of changing the coloring or appearance (white only). No way of integrating into another website (e.g. changing the URL).
Another thing on Flickr is the commenting system they got over there. There's little to no real commenting on photos. 99.9% of the comments are nothing more that copy&Paste pieces of HTML with a 'Saw this in group whatever' image.
So, time to move on... in my case to SmugMug. And one of the features is that they allow you to use your own hostname. In my case: http://photos.redelijkheid.com. There's also a great iPad app for browsing your SmugMug website, and native Adobe Lightroom integration..
The SmugMug deal is a bit more expensive than the Flickr Pro account (about twice the price), but there are coupon codes available for SmugMug to give you a discount (see the end of this post). Combined with a favorable USD-EUR exchange rate, I basically got the account for free.
The next couple of weeks, I'll be uploading my 'catalog' to SmugMug, modify its appearance to comply with this website. And finally, I won't renew my Flickr Pro account (Pro account expires early 2012). The free account will hold the latest 200 photos (with a lot of hints pointing to my new portfolio in the Interwebs). Diverting the crowds (if any), so to say.
If you also fancy a SmuGmug account, you can have $5 USD off with the following coupon code:
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