In effect I already use Flickr as my primary means of sharing my own
personal collection of vintage images and have also hacked a few
things with the API, especially with Flickr Commons. That has given me
enough experience to echo much of the above - it's feasible but not
really advisable as a primary store. That said it has certainly has
proven itself as a place to share images in its own right, and via the
API on your own site.
To put that line in the Ts&Cs about CDNs into context, another part
says that they explicitly rule out using the API to create an
experience that replicates or replaces the functionality of Flickr (in
other words they want the main traffic on flickr.com, not on your site
through the API). This might well come into play if you started
serving up Flickr images on your own site and enabling features like
comments, tags, likes and shares that didn't feed back to Flickr, and
especially if you effectively locked down your Flickr account so that
none of these featrures, or indeed your images, were available
directly on flickr.com
As an aside, with the recent abolition of Pro accounts (except for
continuation for existing repeat subscribers) and a supposed 1TB limit
on the regular free account, someone has even developed a way of
encoding non-image digital assets (basically any sort of file,
including potentially huge ones) into png files so they can be stored
on Flickr. I suspect any obvious use of this would be quickly stamped
down on!
James
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www.whatsthatpicture.com / @PhotosOfThePast
www.apennypermile.com / @APennyPerMile
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Pugh, Jo
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> Yes but that's just nonsense, isn't it?
>
> What else is Flickr for if not content distribution? (Flickr Commons doubly so).
>
> Jo
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> Subject: Re: Flickr Pro as a DAM, with Flickr API CMS integration
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> On 5 Jun 2013, at 17:31, HARRIS TONY <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> This might sound a bit crazy, so please bear with me, but has anyone ever thought of using Flickr Pro as a digital asset management system, then using the Flickr API to integrate with your collections management system? Is this even possible? Have you any experience of using Flickr as a DAM?
>
> It's explicitly against the T's&C's to use flickr as a CDN
>
> * Don't use your account to host web graphics, like logos and banners, *****or as a replacement for a content distribution network.**** If we find you using your account to host generic graphic elements of web page designs, logos, icons, and other non-photographic elements on other web sites, or if you show suspicious upload behavior that impacts the stability of our servers, we will warn you or delete your account.
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> http://www.flickr.com/help/guidelines/
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