우리는 현재 우수한 고객 만족도를 90 % 이상으로 지원하는 우수하고 많은 지원 영웅 직원을 고용했습니다.
Yahoo의 로그인을 제거했습니다. 우리는 플랫폼과 모든 사진을 클라우드 컴퓨팅 업계의 선두 주자 인 Amazon Web Services (AWS)로 옮기고 그 과정에서 기술을 현대화했습니다. 결과적으로 페이지는 이미 20 % 빨라지고 사진은 30 % 더 빨리로드됩니다. Pandas를 포함한 플랫폼 중단이 줄었습니다. Flickr는 더욱 빠르고 안정적으로 유지되며 중요한 새로운 기능이 다시 한 번 구축되고 있습니다.
우리의 일은 결코 끝나지 않았지만 우리는 엄청난 발전을 이루었습니다.
이제 Flickr는 당신의 도움이 필요합니다. 여전히 돈을 잃고 있습니다.
수만 명의 충성스러운 Flickr 회원들이 한 발짝 더 나아가 Flickr Pro에 합류했습니다.
예전보다 훨씬 적은 돈을 잃고 있습니다. 그러나 아직 충분하지 않습니다.
Flickr의 꿈을 현실로 유지하려면 Flickr Pro 회원이 더 필요합니다.
우리는 그것이 현금 암소라고 생각했기 때문에 Flickr를 사지 않았습니다. Facebook과 같은 플랫폼과 달리 개인 정보를 침해하고 데이터를 판매하기 위해 구매하지 않았습니다. 우리는 사진 작가를 좋아하고 사진을 좋아하기 때문에 그것을 샀으며, Flickr는 살뿐만 아니라 번성 할 가치가 있다고 생각합니다. 우리는 세상이 동의한다고 생각합니다. Flickr 커뮤니티도 그렇게 생각합니다. 그러나 우리는 지금까지 계속 손실로 운영 할 수 없습니다.
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Dear friends,
Flickr—the world’s most-beloved, money-losing business—needs your help.
Two years ago, Flickr was losing tens of millions of dollars a year. Our company, SmugMug, stepped in to rescue it from being shut down and to save tens of billions of your precious photos from being erased.
Why? We’ve spent 17 years lovingly building our company into a thriving, family-owned and -operated business that cares deeply about photographers. SmugMug has always been the place for photographers to showcase their photography, and we’ve long admired how Flickr has been the community where they connect with each other. We couldn’t stand by and watch Flickr vanish.
So we took a big risk, stepped in, and saved Flickr. Together, we created the world’s largest photographer-focused community: a place where photographers can stand out and fit in.
We’ve been hard at work improving Flickr. We hired an excellent, large staff of Support Heroes who now deliver support with an average customer satisfaction rating of above 90%. We got rid of Yahoo’s login. We moved the platform and every photo to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the industry leader in cloud computing, and modernized its technology along the way. As a result, pages are already 20% faster and photos load 30% more quickly. Platform outages, including Pandas, are way down. Flickr continues to get faster and more stable, and important new features are being built once again.
Our work is never done, but we’ve made tremendous progress.
Now Flickr needs your help. It’s still losing money. Hundreds of thousands of loyal Flickr members stepped up and joined Flickr Pro, for which we are eternally grateful. It’s losing a lot less money than it was. But it’s not yet making enough.
We need more Flickr Pro members if we want to keep the Flickr dream alive.
We didn’t buy Flickr because we thought it was a cash cow. Unlike platforms like Facebook, we also didn’t buy it to invade your privacy and sell your data. We bought it because we love photographers, we love photography, and we believe Flickr deserves not only to live on but thrive. We think the world agrees; and we think the Flickr community does, too. But we cannot continue to operate it at a loss as we’ve been doing.
Flickr is the world’s largest photographer-focused community. It’s the world’s best way to find great photography and connect with amazing photographers. Flickr hosts some of the world’s most iconic, most priceless photos, freely available to the entire world. This community is home to more than 100 million accounts and tens of billions of photos. It serves billions of photos every single day. It’s huge. It’s a priceless treasure for the whole world. And it costs money to operate. Lots of money.
Flickr is not a charity, and we’re not asking you for a donation. Flickr is the best value in photo sharing anywhere in the world. Flickr Pro members get ad-free browsing for themselves and their visitors, advanced stats, unlimited full-quality storage for all their photos, plus premium features and access to the world’s largest photographer-focused community for less than $5 per month.
You likely pay services such as Netflix and Spotify at least $9 per month. I love services like these, and I’m a happy paying customer, but they don’t keep your priceless photos safe and let you share them with the most important people in your world. Flickr does, and a Flickr Pro membership costs less than $1 per week.
Please, help us make Flickr thrive. Help us ensure it has a bright future. Every Flickr Pro subscription goes directly to keeping Flickr alive and creating great new experiences for photographers like you. We are building lots of great things for the Flickr community, but we need your help. We can do this together.
We’re launching our end-of-year Pro subscription campaign on Thursday, December 26, but I want to invite you to subscribe to Flickr Pro today for the same 25% discount.
We’ve gone to great lengths to optimize Flickr for cost savings wherever possible, but the increasing cost of operating this enormous community and continuing to invest in its future will require a small price increase early in the new year, so this is truly the very best time to upgrade your membership to Pro.
If you value Flickr finally being independent, built for photographers and by photographers, we ask you to join us, and to share this offer with those who share your love of photography and community.
With gratitude,
Don MacAskill
Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Geek
SmugMug + Flickr
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8년 동안 Pro 계정 유지한 사람을 바보 만들 때는 언제고 이제 와서 앓는 소리를 하고 자빠졌다..