flickr liquid mode

[porktaco]

can i tell you how much i love this? THISMUCH!

from dpreview:

Flickr has revised its image viewing pages for the first time in several years - finally letting images expand on larger monitors. The long-awaited feature, which Flickr is calling 'liquid' design, uses the largest image it can to fit your browser window, without ever upscaling. This combines with the latest version of 'lightbox' which shows your images as large as it can on the whole screen. Sadly the best results only come for images uploaded since March 1st 2012, for which 1600 and 2048 pixel versions will have been generated.

The launch comes just as tech blog Gizmodo published a scathing criticism of Yahoo's ownership of the company. And, while the move doesn't address many of the article's concerns, it does at least make pictures look good on Flickr - for so long a glaring oversight for a dedicated photography site.
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[Araakii]

But a lot of people don't upload full size anyway. It makes no difference if the original image is only 600 x 600.

 

[swoop]

I read that article and I did think it was really funny that a day after it was published Flickr totally revamped their site. I'm guessing it was just weird timing. Flickr probably had this in the works for a long time and Gizmodo hit publish just a few hours prior to the revamp.

 

[bhop73]

I read that Gizmodo article and I think the writer is out of touch with what flickr is, compared to instagram and facebook (which he referenced).

I actually like that Flickr isn't the social media type of site that instagram is.. Flickr seems to be a place for more serious photos (mostly), yet it still has just the right, small-ish amount of social network elements to not get in the way.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Flickr has indeed fallen behind and their app sucks. But that article was really badly written (repetitive, vituperative, awkward) and doesn't get what I see as the point of flickr. Instagram and Facebook have taken over social, but Flickr is still very good for photography nerds. I hope they continue to serve us. I also wish Yahoo did not own them.

 

[shadowfox]

I thought you're talking about the new layout that you see when you view your Contact's photos.

It's called View: Justified.

I wonder why don't they do this to all of the pages that shows multiple photos ??
I like it and it makes flickr looks less dated.

 

[andrewteee]

Yeah, they don't get that Flickr is for actual photographers.

 

[Stephen G]

flickr finally dedicates more of the screen real estate to.. the photos!
super.
several years past due.

previously viewing flickr on my 24" monitor was like looking at a 4x6 print matted in a 12x18 frame. silly.