While Flickr may be adding new features for the mass market, I don't really see how any of it threatens to decrease the site's utility to serious enthusiasts. I'll just continue to upload through Lightroom, using the site to browse photo streams of photographers I follow and discovering new ones through their likes.
If Flickr were to stage some sort of Twitter-like attempt to rein back in its ecosystem, shutting out pro software that interacts with it, that would be something else entirely, but this is just adding first-party doodads for people who want to use them.
If Flickr were to stage some sort of Twitter-like attempt to rein back in its ecosystem, shutting out pro software that interacts with it, that would be something else entirely, but this is just adding first-party doodads for people who want to use them.