Flickr alternatives
There are dozens of photo sharing websites (with online community features) on the net. Among the finest is Flickr.com or it used to be. Apparently things have gone wrong since the Yahoo aquisition of Flickr. The latest outrage broke in May 2007 when Flickr/Yahoo started imposing its censorship policies (they call it content filtering). Please read this thread.
Flickr.com has also rather unpleasant feature of showing only the last 200 pictures that have been upload to your account. Otherwise you have to upgrade to the pro account.
Due to this mis-feature and the latest backlash I embarked on a casual search for good alternatives. And what I have found:
1. Ipernity - a social website for content sharing that is a kind a Flickr clone and competitor. You can upload not only photos but also other media (music, videos) - all you need for your multimedia blog. Yes, they provide a blogging capability too. Ipernity is an European (French) website and in my opinion it has a lot of potential.
2. 23 - a good looking site for a socially minded photo enthusiasts that seems to be a viable alternative to Flickr. This website is also an European one.
No need to say people running both websites are very friendly and responsive to all feedback and feature request their users present.
