Screenshots Suppressed on Flickr?
For those of you who, like me, enjoy taking screenshots within WoW & other games to share with other people, you might just be looking for a new place to host them soon. Flickr.com, the large online image-hosting site is apparently trying to discourage users from making their site a repository for video gamegame screenshots, as per this article from Wired.com.
Flickr, for its part, states that screenshots are still allowed on the site, but if more than half a users account consists of screenshots, then they will not appear in a search. The rationale behind this, in their words, is that "when people do a global search on Flickr, they want to find photos", which I can't really argue with. Even so, the sudden change in policy has upset some users, and I can see where they're coming from as well, as I use the service quite a bit myself.
Maybe someone should take this opportunity to make a site for uploading only screenshots? if you make a million on the idea, though, I want in, dammit...