Friday, October 28, 2005
So why has chicksnbreasts been cock blocked by flickr?
Stewart Butterfield of flickr responded to the post by Nick Starr earlier today, and he said:
(1) Flicklicious is a business. Flickr isn’t around to serve businesses, but people - we’re quite upfront about the “for personal use” thing.
(2) Each Flickrlicious page served ~2-4MB of photos from Flickr. It’s also a popular site. That adds up to gigs and gigs and gigs of transfer a month. Good for Flickrlicious since it saves on bandwidth (and hosting) costs. But it’s bad for Flickr and is an abuse of a system designed to help people get their photos out onto the rest of the web, and not lock them up in Flickr.
To be honest I think those are both reasonable points and what pisses me off more than anything is the guy from flickrlicious who pointed his finger at my site and a couple of others like a snitch, basically saying, "what about them, why haven't you shut them down?". For that low class move, Nick Starr gets the gas face.
I'm setting up the new site at www.chicksnbreasts.com, which will have pictures from other sources as well as a new feature - videos! Until that's done, try this url to see pictures:
http://go.chicksnbreasts.blogspot.com/
A very temporary workaround, thanks to flickrbabes for the discovery.
