i'm not sure what the complaint is about hotlinking. a number of folks i know use flickr as a host for a weekly photo contest and have no trouble hotlinking their images. and without any link love or blue boxes. in fact i haven't seen the blue box you're writing about.
while i do have a pro account i only use it for sharing photos. and when i do that it's as a link not a hotlinked image. all my contest entries are hosted on my own site for better control of them. and permanency, such as it is.
the sets are ok, haven't tried collections but the photo stream part doesn't really work for me. then again for $25 i don't expect much more than a stable host for stuff that i want to share publicly. and i'd rather point the teeming masses at flickr than have to edit my web pages for the occasional image.
In reply to: "Flickr: 10 things we love and hate"
November 30, 2007
oh yeah, hardware
while you are right about the hardware thing "significant" is questionable. once had a reseller make me buy a CDROM audio cable to qualify for hardware. but that may have been for 98SE since both the XP Pro boxes software were bought with major hardware.
April 3, 2007
now i know
i read the article and thought "who would want this?" then i read the replies.
February 22, 2005
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