The Next Web:
In a move that should be a surprise to nobody, technology darling 500px is moving to take out Flickr with a new Plus plan. The company had previously held a high-level plan that was priced at $50 per year, but the Plus membership’s $20 per year pricing is aiming to hit Flickr where it hurts against its own pro-level plan at $25 per year.
As for the features? Here’s what you’ll get – unlimited uploads and storage, access to files, unlimited number of collections, market functionality included, and advanced statistics on engagement.
Another, smaller announcement is coming today as well. The site is introducing a desktop uploader app, for the Mac only. It’s doing so in response to the 30,000 photos per day that are uploaded to the service via the manual process, with 25% of its users on Mac machines.
I was a big fan and user of Flickr but it hasn’t really moved forward. Lots of photographers are checking out what 500px offers.
500px is awesome. And their layout is so much better looking than Flickr. To me that makes all the difference.
500px is very pretty, but their attitude to users [and general support] is really really poor. They seem to have a pretty well developed vision of where they want to go, but am not convinced this necessarily matches what their users want from the site.
500px is flickr-lite for hipsters.
I guess it’s a bit easier to target Flickr’s numbers than it is to compete with Smugmug’s pro services.