Openverse Reviews

Flickr Reviews

1. Hollydae Aries

   | Photographer at SecondLife | over 4 years ago
   Deleted my account for "advertising"

   Former blogger for Second Life virtual world. ~ Had my account revoked after I was told my blogging was "advertising", even though 100's of other users do the exact same thing. Years of work down the tubes. Will never use it again. ~ Note: They are doing this to push for "PRO" memberships, because the company is hurting for money.

   🏁 Competitors: Instagram, Facebook

   👍 Pros:    Free to start, until you gain too much popularity.|Good for casual use.

   👎 Cons:    Spam|Abundance of advertising|Photostream hijacking by ads|Horrible customer service.

Openverse mentions (4)

• Museums with CC0 Collections

  Also see https://wordpress.org/openverse/ it allows you to filter to only public domain images. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Google Broke Image Search for Creative Commons and Hardly Anyone Noticed

  Thanks for the HN treatment. As a followup piece, a Google response of this being "a bug". Followup story, my return rate for CC licensed images of "dog" went from 3 to 13. More than that, license info is not displayed (only linked), is frequently wrong, and photo credits often given to the site, not the creator of the image. https://cogdogblog.com/2022/10/google-cc-image-search-better-sad/ Try Openverse for much... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Google Broke Image Search for Creative Commons and Hardly Anyone Noticed

  Last time I've checked, Creative Commons had their own search for things under their licenses. But now apparently that project got transferred to WordPress and is now named Openverse: https://wordpress.org/openverse/?referrer=creativecommons.org Anyways, I'd argue that's the most comprehensive database of CC-licensed works. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Best Practices for Attribution

  > In addition, a searchable database of Creative Commons works would be a welcome addition to the Internet. Openverse is a CC search engine with 600 million items: https://wordpress.org/openverse/ And of course, Google Images supports CC search for images. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Flickr mentions (30)

• Instagram alternatives for promoting business, now that EU laws messed it up?

  Is flickr.com still alive? It used to be so cool back in the day, but I dropped off from photography in general over like the past decade, so have no clue how things are going over there. Source: 7 months ago

• 20mm or 35mm prime lens

  20mm will look wider on your Z6II than your D40x but it should look the same as it does on any other FX body like the D780 or the D850. Go on flickr.com and search for photos taken with 20mm lenses. You can type 20mm in the search bar. Make sure you look at photos taken with full a full frame camera. If those match the look you are going for, go ahead and grab the 20mm. Source: 12 months ago

• Some kid said you only these maintenance trains every 20 years?

  If it was like the post on 'flickr.com' saying it was a ''19354 DDM45'' Then I know the info to that. Source: about 1 year ago

• Karina & Winter (HQ 12MP)

  They should do https://flickr.com/ and gives us hi-res images. 😅. Source: about 1 year ago

• Question to Experienced ancestry user:

  When you scan your images, you can reduce the quality. You might consider getting a subscription to an on-line photo system, like flickr.com, where you can upload original images of high quality. You could have lower-quality ones on ancestry, or just use an outside link to the photo record you have. Source: about 1 year ago