Hi Reddit!I'm Don MacAskill, Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Geek of SmugMug.We started SmugMug in 2002 because we couldn't find an online service that truly loved and cared about photography. We believed there was a need for a service that kept photos safe, helped them look their best, and focused on the customer - photographers - above all else. So we built one.15 years later, we operate at large scale with billions of photos and millions of customers and we're still putting them first. On top of our subscription service, we work with 4 different print labs around the world to deliver a wide range of high-quality prints & gifts for photographers and their visitors.One common misconception about us is that we're only for professionals. In reality, pro photographers make up about a third of our customers, with families, travelers, enthusiasts and more making up the bulk. If you love photography, as far as we're concerned, you're one of us.Which is why it made such sense for us to buy Flickr when the opportunity came up. Yahoo (now part of Oath, which is owned by Verizon) did a wonderful thing for photographers worldwide when they chose us as Flickr's new home. We've loved the photography community for more than 15 years and we're thrilled to be putting two of the biggest services together.I'm sure the /r/photography community (and the photography community at large!) has many questions for SmugMug and Flickr so I'm here to answer as many as I can.Please remember that I'm new to running Flickr and that the deal doesn't close for another week, so I'm still learning and haven't actually done anything yet, but I will answer everything I can. :)Thanks,DonP.S. At /u/Frostickle's suggestion, this AMA is being posted at 6am Pacific time, but I will be answering questions from 9am Pacific time, to collect more questions & allow voting to happen. via /r/photography https://ift.tt/2Iznxmx
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