Allow users to upload photos to your Flickr account

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There are many plugins for WordPress that allow you to upload photos to Flickr 
when creating a post or page. The photos then appear to be directly part of 
your site even though they are hosted at Flickr. This feature request is to 
enable Buddypress-Media to transparently upload a user's photo to Flickr if 
they choose to do so.

[Why is this feature necessary? What shortcoming does it fix?]

This feature would allow administrators to scale their BuddyPress installation 
further because storage and bandwidth for media is offloaded to Flickr.

[Are other social media websites implementing this feature? If so, provide 
links to example sites.]

Many sites already use a Wordpress Flickr plugin to transparently upload photos 
to their flickr account and then serve them remotely from Flickr. This plugin 
is basically the same thing except front-end users would have their photos 
uploaded to Flickr transparently.

[Is this feature relevant to many different kinds of websites? Explain
why?]

Yes. Every website could take advantage of the savings of using Flickr to store 
all their photos.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fisher1...@gmail.com on 22 Jan 2012 at 9:31

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Yes Please!  I'm creating a community group website and this functionality is 
something I've been searching for.  Having users be able to upload to our 
flickr photostream would be fantastic!

Original comment by patransi...@gmail.com on 17 May 2012 at 7:40

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This article posts a how to on implementing it.  I haven't tried it - will 
soon, but it looks good: http://www.carlboettiger.info/wordpress/archives/3988

There's an old plugin that did that, someone could always grab the working code 
and update it for current use. 

I'll let you know if/when I get something working.  I might go with another 
image hosting service, there's several review pointing out great ones, they 
just don't have near the options for wordpress plugins and integration. 

Original comment by FoldOrig...@gmail.com on 28 Aug 2012 at 1:39