'Tis more about rating and posting than about serious photo-sharing and photo-presentation. Being somewhat lacking in optimalization as of browsing, it has got a lot to improve but still offers some nice features

pro:
* easy to upload pictures
* easy to post the picture to your blog
* very simple
* metadata on the pictures

cons:
* free version is limited to 100mb/month
* picnic takes a while to load
* free version only has 3 sets
* flickr stream is limited to 200 photos

Really great photo sharing site, I like it so much I've uploaded hundreds of photos there

Wow. it is amazing how hard and/or un-intuitive it is to do some simple things with flickr. Can some one please point me to a good photo sharing service (that ideally ports into multiple printing companies)? This could have been picassa but they fell short a year ago when i tried them.

flickr's main asset seems to be that it has a well-established community of users who post & rate. i still prefer picasa.

used it for years by far the most versatile

the best there is

Flickr tracks your IP address. Any indiscretion, whether intentional or accidental results in being deleted without warning. Once you've been deleted once, forget it! Every new account you create will get deleted within days because they have your IP!

This is more bizarre coz some people show some extreme nudity in public sections that your kids could easily find yet they don't get checked or deleted until somebody complains!

There are serius floors with flickr!

Still need a lot of work to make it what should be.

I love this site...it has so many beautiful pictures and it's easy to find your way around in.

Call me old-school but I'm still on ofoto

Flickr is one of the jewels in the Yahoo crown and is a fantastic place to share photography. Consider that before Flickr, the concept of a "public photo" didn't exist on all of the other photo sharing sites around at the time. Of course, it has led to massive copyright infringement of people's work, but these are people that most of us wouldn't have found out about anyway if not for this service.

What differentiates Flickr is the tagging and sharing components, and the fact that they open up their service for other sites to use. A search on Flickr for somebody's name, will display all photos that have been tagged with that person's name. A search on Technorati for somebody's name, will display Flickr photos in the margin. It's a neat site - especially if you don't mind sharing your photos with strangers.