back alley
IMAGES
this is my thinking/hope as well...
Flickr. Am I the only one who likes it?
- Thread starter segedi
- Start date
- Latest activity Latest activity:
- Replies 267
- Views 17K
this is my thinking/hope as well...
ebolton
Number 7614
If you are looking thru your contacts photos and you click on one to look at it solo, clicking the flicr logo on the top left will bring you back up to the top of your home page. The back button on the browser brings me to where I left off scrolling down.
Noll
Well-known
At the very least, lifting the 200 image limit for free accounts will be a boon for images posted here. How many thousands of blank image posts lie in the archive because someone ran into #200 and had to make some space?
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
That seems to be part of the problem: people that complain about this get dismissed because they don't experience it. Reminds me of the Canon 10D autofocusing issues: those who experienced it were thought of being silly at best, until a certain critical mass was reached that finally got Canon to consider looking into it and eventually admit there was an issue.
The vast numbers of us who experience this are getting the "not happening to me" wave. A tech-based company should do better than ignore the fact that if lots of customers are experiencing an issue, one cannot dismiss it.
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
It is clear they just rammed this through. There was evidence of beta testers complaining in big numbers before this went live, and their concerns were swiftly ignored. A poorly implemented and hastily developed cool idea is always a ticking turd bomb.
Ronald_H
Don't call me Ron
Downright love it. It is almost perfect for what I need. I like the new look and UI and I feel much more immersed in why contacts and groups as well. Slick is the word. It basically has become my cloud solution now, I upload everything so be able to access it anywhere.
rolfe
Well-known
But doesn't good website design dictate that the designer shouldn't depend on the back button for navigation? In particular, when a site has different "modes" as flickr now does, there should be a way to quickly get back out of the "mode" you've just switched to.
Rolfe
colyn
ישו משיח
Actually you can. In the top tool bar click "you" and scroll down to stats. If you haven't activated it yet it may take awhile to see your stats.
colyn
ישו משיח
Links please.........
ebolton
Number 7614
I don't know about the goodness of it from a web site design point of view, but it is obvious to me as a user and it works, and I think that is what really matters. Elegance in any design should never defeat obvious useability.
They have made some things decidedly non-obvious. They buried flickr mail behind your personal icon, for one. I wonder if they are trying to get rid of some features by attrition: make them difficult to find so people don't use them, then kill them because people don't use them.
They have made some things decidedly non-obvious. They buried flickr mail behind your personal icon, for one. I wonder if they are trying to get rid of some features by attrition: make them difficult to find so people don't use them, then kill them because people don't use them.
ebolton
Number 7614
Just tried it. It gives the stats for the whole account. You used to be able to quickly get to the stats for an individual picture (without everything else), and that is what I am missing.
Sparrow
Veteran
No, there is you and another two or three ... almost certainly fewer than those it gave a migraine 😀
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633588975421/
Like I said, there was evidence. Flickr staff quickly redirected or made test groups inaccessible.
user237428934
User deletion pending
The new design with endless scrolling is really great. Don't like the frontpage so much, but I skip it anyway with a link that goes directly to the old page of the summary of your contacts photos.
Saves me a lot of time to look through photos because I don't have to skip through endless pages. The size of the photos is much better. Now I can better decide if it's worth to look at a particular photo in detail.
Saves me a lot of time to look through photos because I don't have to skip through endless pages. The size of the photos is much better. Now I can better decide if it's worth to look at a particular photo in detail.
segedi
RFicianado
Can't you click the link that says all photos and videos and see the stats? It defaults to current day but then you click the all time link and it shows everything. No?
segedi
RFicianado
andersju
Well-known
Among some other groups I follow the feeling is the opposite - "am I the only one who doesn't like the new Flickr?".
I think it's a great upgrade. Makes me want to start using Flickr actively again.
Here's another take on it: http://danwin.com/2013/05/flickr-redesign-a-photo-service-worth-sharing/
I think it's a great upgrade. Makes me want to start using Flickr actively again.
Here's another take on it: http://danwin.com/2013/05/flickr-redesign-a-photo-service-worth-sharing/
ebolton
Number 7614
It does, and from the current day stats you can click on any picture and see the stats on that picture. All that is unchanged. But in the old flickr, you used to be able from the single photo view to get right to the stats for that particular picture. It was less clicks and scrolling than it takes to get to that point now.
segedi
RFicianado
Ah, I see now. Never used stats in that manner. For me, more work to get to the individual photo to see it's stats, especially for older photos, than using the stats as they are now. Can't see why view, comment count and favorites can't be added to the bar underneath the photo and maybe they will implement that or a stats link under the ... menu.
segedi
RFicianado
Thanks for the link!
Key takeaways for me,
'But I’m already more interested in my network than I’ve ever been.'
'my first thought when looking through my set of favorites after the redesign wasn’t, “These photos look nice,” but: “Wow, I don’t even remember taking some of these photos.”'
Which mirrors my experience.
That and I think they did a good job on platform independence/responsive design.
Key takeaways for me,
'But I’m already more interested in my network than I’ve ever been.'
'my first thought when looking through my set of favorites after the redesign wasn’t, “These photos look nice,” but: “Wow, I don’t even remember taking some of these photos.”'
Which mirrors my experience.
That and I think they did a good job on platform independence/responsive design.
