Flickr. Am I the only one who likes it?

Sparrow said:
No, not subjective ... a professional opinion ...
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What the...? Seriously - I think you need to rein-in the self-importance - you're coming across as a conceited a-- imho. In the past I've worked at a couple of the world's foremost ad agencies, working on global campaigns for the very biggest companies in cars, sports and electronics, but when I'm expressing my opinion here I don't consider it any more valid than other people's subjective opinion about design.

Unless your real name is Dieter Rams I genuinely do not give a rat's a$$ about your opinion on the flickr redesign.

css9450 said:
An informal survey among my contacts points to a big drop in photo views on their streams. ...
I think there are two reasons for this. One, everyone's most recent photo now shows up large on all their contact's home pages. Why click on the photostream when you're already seeing the most recent picture in large size?...

Secondly, the endless scroll doesn't work...
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I agree that I'm clicking on fewer images because seeing them large in the stream is enough - but I'm discovering a lot of new photographers with the new luscious images I'm seeing, so it's double-edged.

I agree about the infinite scroll - that's the worst aspect of the redesign, in my opinion. I wish it was possible to get that sort of constructive criticism across, but it's being drowned by the childish tantrums on the flickr help forum, from the vocal minority that are dissatisfied.
 
tom.w.bn said:
So a drop from 1700 to 400 a day must be huge hit in the face of an ego.
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You'd have to ask the photographer in question. He's about a million times more active than I am. Maybe 1700 is normal for him? I'm going to assume it was mentioned not as an ego thing but instead as a reflection of what's going on across the whole site.

Like I said, if I'm not clicking on anyone's pics (no need to any more, since there's always one displayed large), and thanks to the cumbersome scroll feature, I'm not seeing some people's pics at all, it all results in less community and sharing, not more.
 
tom.w.bn said:
I'd also say that the performance reached the level before the update. Only thing that does not work on my mac is the slideshow. Just wanted to look for the ken burns stuff some people mentioned 😱 I lived without the slideshow before, so I don't care.
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The slideshow has never been important to me either..so I could care less about it. I tried it a few days ago and it seemed to work fine though.. I think the transitions affects aka ken burns should be done away with since some are having problems with it..
 
I like it more and more. I just found the exif data button. It was very slow at first, but fine now. I appreciate this search tip ("-") above because I do lots of lens searches and would like to eliminate the crop factor pics. I don't really know how to decide whether to switch from Pro to free or not...
 
mani said:
What the...? Seriously - I think you need to rein-in the self-importance - you're coming across as a conceited a-- imho. In the past I've worked at a couple of the world's foremost ad agencies, working on global campaigns for the very biggest companies in cars, sports and electronics, but when I'm expressing my opinion here I don't consider it any more valid than other people's subjective opinion about design.

Unless your real name is Dieter Rams I genuinely do not give a rat's a$$ about your opinion on the flickr redesign.
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Designer is my profession, so I'm comfortable sticking with Professional Opinion thanks, and I'm not really troubled by what you think.

You will of course know that flicker sacked their design director a few days after the redesign ... so I suspect one or two other people who know what they are talking about share my opinion
 
Sparrow said:
Designer is my profession, so I'm comfortable sticking with Professional Opinion thanks,
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This has got to be one of the most arrogant - and frankly ignorant - things I've read in a long time. The fact that you seem to be laboring under the misapprehension that ipernity constitutes 'good design' says all I need to know about your 'professional' credentials.

Sparrow said:
and I'm not really troubled by what you think.
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This is as it should be - I suggest you disregard what's being said here by people who aren't storming off from flickr in a cry-baby emotional tantrum.
 
I`m using both sites but find that I`m still preferring the ipernity site.
I`ll continue to use both for the foreseeable future.
Posts seem to indicate that there is a variance in performance .
I haven`t timed the new Flickr but it is slower than the old design on my PC.
 
It seems that the situation cooled down a bit and throwing dirt came down to a normal level 🙂 .

While I can understand that some people don't like the new design at all, I can't understand the direction some people went now.

Over the years some of my contacts left flickr. Now I'm not talking about those who just leave by abandoning the photostream. I'm talking about those who announced the change. Most of them wanted more control over the layout or a completely different design. What did theser persons do? They did not go to another photo hosting site that's similar to flickr, they made a blog.

The typical photo hosting sites offer one layout, love it or leave it. Every website with some significant amount of functionality changes over the years, some even dramatically after every few years. So you should never expect a "no change" on a site with a given layout.

In a blog you choose one of the many layouts that are available. Normally those layouts don't change over the time, that prevents unwanted surprises. If you want social media functions, everything is there (favorites, comments, contacts, tagging) and you have an upload manager for organizing your photos.

The only thing where a blog is not really good is posting lots of photos at once. That's the reason why I post my photos at flickr. No problem with 30-50 photos from a vacation.

For me, control over the layout is not manageable with a photo hosting site like flickr, ipernity, etc. When people primarily switch to ipernity because they want a white background and the look and feel that's there today, I don't know when they have to look for a new home because ipernity changed something. Maybe those people should really go for a blog because only there you have control over the layout.
 
Tom - I hope you stay on flickr: clicking on your link brings me to a page where your images are displayed large and boldly, and straight away I get a good idea of what your photography is about. The layout may seem a bit tight to some, but I don't consider the stream as a 'white-walled gallery' display - it's more of a contact sheet, giving a broad overview. But anyway, I really like what I see as soon as I open your page.

In contrast, what one sees when you come to an ipernity page is the untidy header filled with a mass of different buttons, and under that a tiny jumbled little thumbnail view of a few images cropped to a square, then some more medium-sized previews, surrounded by texts.
All of this cramped and somehow meager looking mess is then further cluttered by an ugly box of 'contact' head-shots, and then a 'guest-book' with a brown paper-texture background which looks like a remnant of website design circa 1997.
All of it very depressing. I predict the site's current spike of popularity will die off pretty quickly when the novelty and news wears off.

I agree with you - anyone who wants control over their own design should do it themselves. Ironically one of the very best ways to do this is to store images on flickr and link in to them by tying-in to the very open API.
 
colyn said:
Not mine...it's as fast as before..
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Kind of like "how can your car be broken down when mine runs fine?" 😉

Lots of people are experiencing a slower service and the pages DO use up a lot more memory than the old design. Just because it's working ok for you does not mean everybody else is crazy.

I wouldn't care if it did work just as fast as it used to, I'd still want to turn off the endless scrolling nonsense and be able to click on a page and get what I'm looking for immediately.
 
Am I the only one that sees just a jumble of overlapping corners of thumbnails when I click on "Sets"? It wasn't like this right after the switch. Even on my own sets, some of them took a bit of headscratching just to tell which ones they are, since they're just corners of the original pic.

But hey, I suppose having a worthless and obscure Sets page and a broken endless scroll that takes forever to load is worth losing the white background some of you were so concerned about...
 
css9450 said:
Am I the only one that sees just a jumble of overlapping corners of thumbnails when I click on "Sets"? It wasn't like this right after the switch. Even on my own sets, some of them took a bit of headscratching just to tell which ones they are, since they're just corners of the original pic.

But hey, I suppose having a worthless and obscure Sets page and a broken endless scroll that takes forever to load is worth losing the white background some of you were so concerned about...
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Here's a snapshot of mine.. Looks good to me..

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colyn said:
Here's a snapshot of mine.. Looks good to me..
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Mine was like that. Last week. Now they all overlap. And its this way on both my desktop monitor and my laptop.

Like so:

34707119.jpg
 
css9450 said:
But hey, I suppose having a worthless and obscure Sets page and a broken endless scroll that takes forever to load is worth losing the white background some of you were so concerned about...
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So far I haven't experienced any of the problems people have been mentioning - but then I haven't been seeking out negative things to complain about.

I don't like the infinite scroll either, and if I were designing a page to display what I consider to be my 'best' images then it would be plain white with plenty of space around each image and no text.

But then very few of my images deserve that treatment, and I wouldn't expect other people to have to look at them patiently one at a time like that, as though I were some sort of latter-day HCB.
I think a lot of the people complaining about the new layout have very high opinions of themselves and their photography.
 
mani said:
So far I haven't experienced any of the problems people have been mentioning - but then I haven't been seeking out negative things to complain about.
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I'm not either. Far from it. I'm just a regular everyday user, logging on 3-5 times a day. But I can recognize when they try to fix stuff that's not broken. The scroll and the mixed-up sets are perfect examples. If they can fix those I'd be much happier.


mani said:
I think a lot of the people complaining about the new layout have very high opinions of themselves and their photography.
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Just an amateur here. But I hope my opinions still count for something. Evidently not.
 
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