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Re: Important letter from Flickr¢s CEO (fwd)
- To: noelle
- Subject: Re: Important letter from Flickr¢s CEO (fwd)
- From: robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 08:13:17 -0800
- Keywords: my-Oakland-voicemail-number
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.
> > � > > � � > > � �> > ��
> >
> > � > > �
> > <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