Fotolog and Flickr

[imomus]

I now have an account with Fotolog and an account with Flickr. Basically, they do the same thing: host and display my digital photographs. Does anyone have experience of both these systems? Which do you prefer? What are the pros and cons of each?



At first sight, Flickr has the cleaner interface, although I like Fotolog's world map. I get the feeling that I'll reach my bandwidth limit on Flickr pretty quickly too. And I'm curious about the social networking aspects of both systems. What are your experiences? Are there other photoblog publishing systems you recommend?

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fotolog v. flickr

[dubmill.livejournal.com]

I have accounts at both (/dubmill) and generally agree with qinghuayuan's comments.

fotolog is fairly primitive, has the more savage jpg compression on the images (whereas flickr also stores the original high resolution images should you want to view those), and there's always something not working properly.. BUT it has the better basic interface (that encourages interaction with other users) and is generally funkier and more spontaneous/lo-fi. It's a nice mix of sexy Brazilian teenagers and artier things.

flickr is much more technically advanced and reliable, has a lot of good features (sets, groups, the image 'organizr', different image sizes, allows external linking to images etc. etc.) BUT is, in my opinion, much dryer. The basic interface is flawed somehow and there is a constant glaring white background which I personally don't like. It started life as a very geeky place - seemingly heavily populated by bloggers from the web design and internet tech end of the spectrum, plus there are lots more people who are hung up on Becoming Better Photographers in a boring kind of way. In its favour it is growing at a phenomenal rate and those constituencies are fast getting watered down with vast numbers of users of all different kinds.