Flickr's latest interface ... win or lose?

[Sid836]

After being through that many changes with no warning I've gotten used to it. No surprise if I go by flickr tomorrow and see something completely different.

 

[ruby.monkey]

In individual photo view the stupid thing keeps trying to resize photos to full screen width, regardless of original aspect ration, both screwing up their presentation and obscuring the toolbox. It seems like they've assumed that everyone will be viewing on a tablet in portrait mode.

 

[Michael Markey]

With each forced change it seems I'm using Flickr less... guess for me they failed to improve the experience.

This is what has happened to me too.
Where once I went to the site freely I now go knowing that I`m going to have a frustrating user experience.

 

[Michael Markey]

As a web developer myself I can see what they are trying to achieve and why they need to do it too. Most of the interface in modern browsers previously was very unstable especially on touch devices. So this really was required to hopefully pull the service out of slow marching to it's death.

I find on a lot of projects I've been on, notably as the lead in the tate.org redevelopment, that you either start with a clean slate or you are left with a lot of legacy code that stalls new features. With that we basically had to as with flickr wipe the slate clean so we could future proof the site.

As I said before the modern devices outline a lot of the functionality. The new flickr on the microsoft surface is stunning now they have allowances for touch. Also the heads up information panels form follows applications. In most cases 99% of the viewers don't care too much for the tags or the groups. They will come and search for engaging images and the new design with fullscreen browsing delivers that experience perfecty.

Overall though the biggest feature is 1TB of free data.. Install AdBlock in chrome and you never see the ads... so that issue is negated. Actually running an ad block generally makes the web a lot more blissful as the pages are less compromised by "BUY BUY BUY" plastered over pages.

I suppose it's like most software. They have to innovate to survive, not everyone will like it at first, the adobe product line is a good example.. the outrage in some quarters at Photoshop going to a dark interface was unbelievable. Although for a free very specific service. I'm more than happy to live with it.

Thank you for this .
Most plausible explanation for the changes so far.
I guess that you gain some and lose some whenever such changes are made however inevitable they are.
No advantages in the changes for me I`m afraid only downsides plus its an ugly design ...to me.

So I`ll continue to use it as a hosting service but count myself among the disadvantaged 🙂

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Did they broke the Tabs?
Now if I click on my Tab it shows not my pictures, but someone else...

 

[citizen99]

Thank you for this .
Most plausible explanation for the changes so far.
I guess that you gain some and lose some whenever such changes are made however inevitable they are.
No advantages in the changes for me I`m afraid only downsides plus its an ugly design ...to me.

So I`ll continue to use it as a hosting service but count myself among the disadvantaged 🙂

My sentiments, too. Although I suppose I benefit from the fact of its working on tablets when I'm away from the traditional home desktop 😉.
It's sometimes possible to find less 'mainstream' browsers (or emulated old versions), that aren't up to date supporting with all the latest wonderful internet gizmos, that partially 'fall-back' to the traditional styles of rendering individual image pages for example. But I wouldn't expect to rely on that for ever as Flickr constantly evolves 🙁.

 

[rjbuzzclick]

The tags have changed so that now when I click on a tag I get everyone's photos that use that tag, not just the photos by the photographer I'm looking at. Does anyone know if there's a way to change this?

 

[kshapero]

What gives, every time they change it, it is worse. What gives?

 

[Ranchu]

I hear it's stunning on the microsoft surface.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/flickr.com

People deserve better.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/penpen/pool/

 

[Ko.Fe.]

The answer for broken tags question. They f...ed up script for Google Chrome, but it still works in Microsoft IE.

 

[colyn]

Overall it looks good but could use improvement.

My question is what happens if you cancel your subscription? Will you stilll get to use it or do you loose everything??

 

[thompsonks]

I can't figure out how to grab a bbc code, or whatever its called that I used to use to post images here.

I have the ame problem – I used to link posts from Flickr to RFF, but now, when I copy the Flickr box and paste into RFF, the picture doesn't show up.

Anybody know how to do it?

 

[colyn]

I have the ame problem – I used to link posts from Flickr to RFF, but now, when I copy the Flickr box and paste into RFF, the picture doesn't show up.

Anybody know how to do it?

Simple

Click the share icon then click the thumbtack and choose the size.. Then copy/paste..

 

[SausalitoDog]

I can't figure out how to grab a bbc code, or whatever its called that I used to use to post images here.

Other than that, whatever, it's fine. I don't put a lot of thought into it. Which is a good thing, because they're just going to keep changing it anyway, regardless of whether we like it or not.

+1

The BBC code is in the dialog when you click Share - but you have to delete the =URL from it at the end.

 

[kingqueenknave]

With each forced change it seems I'm using Flickr less... guess for me they failed to improve the experience.

Well said.

 

[mwoenv]

Everything takes so long to load that it's now useless and I no longer use it. Too bad, the groups were a good place to share information.

 

[jesse1dog]

Tried uploading photo to RFF last night.
Couldn't get the code because I had made my photo 'private'.
Made the photo 'public'.
Got code.
Uploaded to RFF thread.
Made photo 'private'
Photo still in RFF thread.
Surely this can't be an improved feature - it didn't used to be like this!
jesse

 

[thompsonks]

OK, I found new posting instructions on Flickr. I don't know why they changed them, because it worked before, for linking to RFF – and now it doesn't.

"The HTML code to embed a photo in a web page that you used to find on the All Sizes page is now only in the Share menu on the photo, to the left of the More menu. We now also include BBCode! (standard message board code)."


If I follow the instructions and click RFF's 'picture' icon under Message, I can paste in either the Embed or the HTML version – but neither way posts an image, just these lines of code:

Neither produces the image, which is here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thompsonkirk/13655189604/

The picture isn't 'Private.' Is there something wrong with what I'm doing, or shall I just give up on F*ckr?

 

[rluka]

Don't use the add picture icon. Just copy paste the BB Code from the sharing option right into the forum's reply box

 

[Steve M.]

It's been, well, interesting watching flickr and yahoo devolve into such messes. I deleted my yahoo account years ago, which also deleted my flickr account, and that is all a very good thing. I hate flickr too. Most people do, and yet they stupidly continue w/ changes that no one likes, ala google (went to fastmail to eliminate that one). People always go on and on about how smart techies are, but their companies seem to be run by people who are anything but.

For the tiny bit of online photo posting that I do, photobucket works perfectly. Right click, "copy image", and there it is. Amazing. What could be simpler?