How is Flickr these days?

My photo friends and I have used flickr for a long time to show one another work that we were editing, but that's not ready for showing or for a website. But I find the pages confused in their organization now, and I'm embarrassed to have my work appear under silly pictures of seagulls.
 
No problems with flickr here ... in fact I'm using iit more lately than I have done for several years. 🙂
 
Works fine for me. In fact the only issues I have encountered was the first day when it was a bit slow due to the high number of users accessing flickr..
 
It's very slow for me. Especially when using my admittedly old laptop. On the other hand, the groups load fine (jumblified view turned off, and no pseudo infinite scrolling). So I've just been avoiding photostreams and browsing groups more.

I do wish my favorites would load though.
 
I have gotten somewhat used to the new look and feel. But if I had my way I would go back to the old layout. What appalls me most are web designers who fail to take account of the reality that not everyone has an internet connection of a zillion megabytes per nano second or the most up to date computer. I have a good computer with lots of RAM (16 gig) and a reasonable but not super fast internet connection and I struggle with this damn layout which consumes so much resources to load and display. Scrolling thru a page of images is now a PITA and as for quickly loading and searching visually for an image - forget it.
 
thompsonks said:
My photo friends and I have used flickr for a long time to show one another work that we were editing, but that's not ready for showing or for a website. But I find the pages confused in their organization now, and I'm embarrassed to have my work appear under silly pictures of seagulls.
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If you are referring to an image that appears at the top of the Flickr photostream page you can at least change this image for one of your own. Move your cursor to near the top right of the screen and a dialogue box pops up - everything is so unintuitive in this world of Windows 8 which is what this seems designed for.
 
Flickr works great on both my Linux Gentoo-based years-old laptop with out-of-date software and on my Galaxy S3 mobile. If it's slow for you, it's probably you, not Flickr.

Am I the only one who enjoys their new mobile app? Far more functionality than their old one, and browsing photostreams, searches and group pools is faster as well.
 
it's still an embarrassment of development.

I dont even care about the layout. what I care about is that it is without question the ****iest coding job I have seen in a very, very long time.
 
Lauffray said:
yes and no, it's almost impossible to guarantee the site working the same way across all the different machines anc configurations people use to access the internet.

You could have an old slow computer, or a modern computer with a slow browser, or even an excellent machine with a poor internet connection, maybe you don't have enough memory (javascript ahem...), or are running too many things in the background, perhaps you also browse with a million open tabs, maybe their CDN or load balancers are choking a little....who knows
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This has been my experience, too. I think the new flickr works great when you're using an iPhone. But I do most of my photo viewing on an iPad, and it sucks big time: slow to load, continually crashing, unresponsive. On a PC w/ a decent internet conneciton, I'm finding the site performs OK, although I still dislike not being able to display photos on my home page the way I want (and like I used to be able to do under the old flickr).
 
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