Replacing Flickr, Looking For Input

With the changes being made to Flickr, I'm looking find a platform I can work with going forward, and I'm not against paying for it, so long as it's not going to botch my quality.

My first thought was Google Photos, as I already have a GMail account tied to the name, so it would be easy. But it seems like Google Photos cuts back on the quality of the images I put up there.

My only gripe with Flickr is that while they're offering sales to upgrade, it appears these "sale" prices are already higher than what some paying customers were already paying? I haven't been a fan of the Flickr changes since I signed up and SmugMug moved in...

I looked into 500px and set up just a test album to see what came from there. The people that reviewed it were showing me a bunch of ads showing when just going to see a photo, and also it shows related images, which will take away from what I'm trying to share.

Essentially for this specific purpose, I'm looking to hit my track events, take specific events and put them into their own respective albums, and share those for the guests to look at, request specific images, etc. It's essentially going to be just an online photo album where someone can follow a name, check the albums as they pop up, find themselves, reach out to me and say, "Hey, can I buy the rights to this", etc. And it doesn't need to be a selling platform.

Just looking for any opinions and ideas, something else I should be looking into.
For reference, this is my current Flickr setup. It's not extensive, which is why I'm not against dumping Flickr entirely.
https://www.flickr.com …hancsehphotogra​phy/albums

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I moved away from Flickr during the first iteration of account changes a few years ago. I went to a Wordpress website hosted on a CPanel website at godaddy. This worked well for a while but was extra work to keep the platform up to date and getting a shopping cart working was a pain in the behind. And expensive to do it “right”.

I recently moved everything to smugmug. I wasn’t a fan of smugmug of a few years ago but they have come a long way in how content is displayed. I went with a plan that adds the shopping cart because I was tired of messing around with my own shopping cart back end and/or manually fulfilling requests. As it turns out going with smugmug was a great choice. I get “cha-ching” emails from them when a purchase is made. It’s effortless. I make more sales this way....it’s completely uncomplicated for the purchaser, and other than uploading the actual gallery I don’t have to be involved.

There will always be limitations to the services with a free/paid tier, and unless you do the backend yourself you’ll have to deal with a compromise of some kind.

Jethr0 wrote in post #18755372
Your Flickr link Is broken. 404 error.

I already tore it all down, as of yesterday. I forgot to update my original post.

Jethr0 wrote in post #18755372
I recently moved everything to smugmug. I wasn’t a fan of smugmug of a few years ago but they have come a long way in how content is displayed. I went with a plan that adds the shopping cart because I was tired of messing around with my own shopping cart back end and/or manually fulfilling requests. As it turns out going with smugmug was a great choice. I get “cha-ching” emails from them when a purchase is made. It’s effortless. I make more sales this way....it’s completely uncomplicated for the purchaser, and other than uploading the actual gallery I don’t have to be involved.

There will always be limitations to the services with a free/paid tier, and unless you do the backend yourself you’ll have to deal with a compromise of some kind.

I think I originally dismissed SmugMug because of its association with Flickr and the changes that were made to the platform. I might look more into SmugMug directly if I get more interested from people for prints, but as it's mostly a hobby, I'm still finding my footing in what I put into my work.

I've started using Behance, as I've already got my Adobe user set up with them, so I was able to easily set up "Projects" for my albums. I realize this is more portfolio work for establishing a bit of an online presence, it's fairly social oriented, but it seems to work well for just sharing albums based on events, etc.

I understand that you can't really ride the free train forever. I was somewhat put off by the Flickr changes that came shortly after I signed up, and when they pushed to a pricing model, I figured there's still options out there that works for me in the mean time. This is all just an expensive hobby for me, so I'm not getting any sort of return in what I put online. The SmugMug thing may be an option, but I think that comes with either requests, or more confidence.

Thanks for the input!