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Re: Important letter from Flickr¢s CEO (fwd)



Very funny letter.  Obviously, a humorous guy.

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 07:48:20 -0800 (PST)
 >
 >  > To: "Noelle" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 >  > Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 01:35:18 +0000
 >  > From: "The Flickr Team" <http://www.arrow.flickr.com/~flickrteam>
 >  >  
 >  >  Flickr—the world’s most-beloved,
 >  >  money-losing business—needs your help.
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 >  >  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 
 >  > ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ � >  > � ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 
 >  >  <https://www.flickr.com?utm_source=Flickr&utm_medium=email> 
 >  > 
 >  > Dear Flickr Pros,
 >  > 
 >  > First, and above all else: thank you. Thank you for being a part
 >  > of our community. Thank you for caring about Flickr. Thank you
 >  > for supporting Flickr.  Thank you for being a Flickr Pro.
 >  > 
 >  > Two years ago, Flickr was losing tens of millions of dollars a
 >  > year. Our company, SmugMug, stepped in torescue it from being
 >  > shut down <
 >  > https://www.vox.com/2019/1/23/18194865/verizon-layoffs-aol-yahoo-shutdown-fli
 >  > ckr> 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 outand fit in.
 >  > 
 >  > And yet, Flickr—the world’s most-beloved,
 >  > money-losing business—still needs your help.
 >  > 
 >  > 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.
 >  > 
 >  > Flickr still needs your help. It’s still losing
 >  > money. You, and 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, and we need your help to share the story of Flickr.
 >  > 
 >  > 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.
 >  > 
 >  > As you know, 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.
 >  > 
 >  > Please, help us spread the word. Help us make Flickr
 >  > thrive. Help us ensure Flickr 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 give you a
 >  > coupon code to share with friends, family, or anyone who shares
 >  > your love of photography and community so they can enjoy the
 >  > same 25% discount before the campaign starts.
 >  > 
 >  > 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 help everyone
 >  > upgrade to a Pro membership.
 >  > 
 >  > If you value Flickr finally being independent, built for
 >  > photographers and by photographers, we need your help.
 >  > 
 >  > With gratitude,
 >  > 
 >  > Don MacAskill
 >  > Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Geek
 >  > SmugMug + Flickr 
 >  > 
 >  > Please share coupon code 25in2019 or link below to give the gift
 >  > of 25% off Flickr Pro now.
 >  > 
 >  > https://www.flickr.com/account/upgrade/pro?coupon=25in2019




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