Retiring Digital Grin (DGrin) on February 13th
Hello D-Grin community!
I’d like to let you all know SmugMug has made the decision to retire Digital Grin (aka DGrin).
Photography online is alive and well: New capture techniques, technology, and increased access across the globe continue to drive our craft. While our forum may be closing, the opportunities to guide and shape the conversation around photography have never been bigger.
As you probably know, SmugMug acquired Flickr in 2018. As one of the first social networks, Flickr has a vibrant, engaged community. We're building a group there just for Digital Grin members, and it's free to join. We'd love to see you there to help us continue the conversation.
https://www.flickr.com/groups/dgrin/
Here's how the roadmap looks for the D-Grin forums:
Today:
- Let the existing community know about the plan
- Stop approving new members
February 1 (or there abouts)
- Restrict new posts
February 13 (or there abouts)
- Turn off the site and redirect the domain
Thank you for being part of this community and making it the special place it’s been.
Erik
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Thanks for all the great times on here. Looking forward to seeing everyone over in the Flickr group!
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Well, I am sorry to see Dgrin go, I understand. I will check out the flickr group.
Thanks for a good ride. I have learned so much from this group in this forum for many years.
Sherry P.
OK--I spent some time looking at Flickr yesterday and this morning. While the Flickr page looks nice for another photo hosting site with an established community, it doesn't seem to integrate the SmugMug community's current forum site very well, if at all. Maybe this move is supposed to change that? Granted, I am not fully familiar with the Flickr platform, but I have some thoughts and some questions.
I totally understand that Dgrin participation has declined over the last several years and it must be fairly expensive to maintain, especially if participation has declined. I also understand that Flickr might have a more vibrant community. When I was looking around and exploring Flickr, I lost track of how many times I got a message/pop-up/ad that says something like 'yeah, you can do some things free, but if you really want to participate you should pay money and upgrade to Flickr pro'. I even understand that as well. What I would like to know is: what about all of us who already spend the money to have Smugmug? Since Smugmug acquired Flickr, shouldn't our Smugmug account keep us from seeing these Flickr ads and requests to upgrade? I don't recall ever seeing the 'join Smugmug or be limited at Dgrin" messages. Maybe that's because I already had Smugmug though, I'm not sure.
Will the Dgrin community on Flickr be something similar to what we have on Dgrin? What I mean is: will there be categories for thread topics or is it more of a free for all discussion? I would like to see more organization there instead of just a blank page we're being moved to. Yes, I know we need to grow into the new space, but I would have hoped there would already be some framework there for us to move into.
Flickr doesn't seem to be as "user friendly" as Dgrin. I hope this also changes, or maybe it's because I'm just not familiar with Flickr. I've always thought I was savvy enough to quickly figure out most sites like this, but I will admit it is taking me longer to learn than it should.
If Smugmug is moving it's community to Flickr, does this mean our photo hosting will also be forced to move to Flickr? I sincerely hope not.
If what Flickr is now is all it will ever be (as a forum and Smugmug community), then I am really disappointed.
Please don't take these comments as a "Karen" rant. I am just a resigned and sad Dgrin & Smugmug user who really hopes that this Flickr platform will work out. Right now, it just doesn't appear to be looking so great.
Thanks,
Sherry Pollett
Nope. SmugMug will remain as the amazing platform that we all love. This is only impacting DGrin.
Thank you for the feedback.
Thanks for that info.
Sherry
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