A Flickr-ing world

In the age of ephemeral messaging and disappearing photos, square instant clicks with amazing filters and AI rendered art pieces from phone cameras, platforms that come to mind are Snapchat, Instagram, Prisma, and so on. While these young platforms hog the limelight and have become mainstream, Flickr stands at the other extreme of this instant spectrum.

Flickr started in 2004 as a side project, but it quickly became a mammoth project loved and used by millions of users across the world. It has gone through multiple iterations of interface changes, feature enhancements, and owners (the last one being Yahoo! Inc.); and yet it has stayed consistent with its theme as a photo sharing platform. It caters to, not only the instant generation, but also amateur and professional photographers to share, discuss, and appreciate photography from across the world.

Flickr is one of the oldest social networks to cater to photography enthusiasts, and it has features related to uploading,...