i'm sticking with flickr...

btgc said:
flickr have not introduced ads yet.
I've logged out and go through flickr to see ads but no one yet.

Interesting, how and where they will fit them? They could appear also when free accounts use links to their pics on external sites.
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I changed my account from a pro to a free account, and there are ads in the top right of screen.
 
btgc said:
flickr have not introduced ads yet.
I've logged out and go through flickr to see ads but no one yet.

Interesting, how and where they will fit them? They could appear also when free accounts use links to their pics on external sites.
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That's a concern...

I'm using Flickr as a storage for my humble weebly site (I need to seriously dust this one). I would hate to see ads on my site...
 
Have had a dormant Pro account for years - really could not be bothered to use the old uninspiring site. Now I'm quite enthused to start uploading. The UI needs some tweaking (esp the infinite loading/scrolling that slows everything down), but for the most part I feel it's an enormous improvement.
I don't think the ads will appear on images linked on other sites: that would be just another PR disaster, but I'm curious to know how and where they'll be displayed for the free users. I think yahoo will need to be a little more sensitive in future.
Can't understand the hysteria on the flickr feedback pages though: never seen so much screaming and hair-wrenching since I was at nursery school.
 
Pop-up ads are too easy to remove. Probably Yahoo will use methods to show ad as one clicks on picture with consecutive display of picture - for linked pictures. This is a battle between advertisers and adblock developers.

I just can't figure out who is financing development and support of free ad blockers. Out of pure fun? Tell me on this.
 
Still have mine and finally its working.
In all the talk about design and front page layout (I still configure mine in the old way) what has been missed is that the thing has been very buggy for some.

At least now I can see stuff like my set page and the navigational tabs are no longer obscured.

So now , I have two accounts....no problem with that.
 
I read on line that photobucket is the second most successful hosting site numerically behind flickr. When you upload an image to photobucket you are played a video ad while the image is uploading and you cannot move on from that ad and place the uploaded file into your gallery until the ad is finished ... sometimes thirty seconds!

The day flickr pulls a stunt like this I'll be gone for good.
 
not wanting to derail discussion from Flickr, but since you asked:

btgc said:
I just can't figure out who is financing development and support of free ad blockers. Out of pure fun? Tell me on this.
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here's how you can contribute 🙂

just got it for Android. not so thorough blocking as in desktop Chrome, but better than unfiltered.
 
Michael Markey said:
Still have mine and finally its working.
In all the talk about design and front page layout (I still configure mine in the old way) what has been missed is that the thing has been very buggy for some.

At least now I can see stuff like my set page and the navigational tabs are no longer obscured.

So now , I have two accounts....no problem with that.
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It has been rather frustrating for you; while some of us have had a smooth ride, others have not. Personally I've had no problems barring a few occasions when the site just refused to load. I put that down to overloaded servers rather than any issues with the site design. I don't have a particularly fast internet connection so I expect the occasional hiccup.
 
Keith said:
I read on line that photobucket is the second most successful hosting site numerically behind flickr. When you upload an image to photobucket you are played a video ad while the image is uploading and you cannot move on from that ad and place the uploaded file into your gallery until the ad is finished ... sometimes thirty seconds!

The day flickr pulls a stunt like this I'll be gone for good.
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I have no problem when sometimes somewhere on a page an ad appears that I'm able to ignore. When an ad forces me to wait, I'm off
 
... ipernity now for my gallery stuff, simply leaving my flicker content as it is to preserve the links and contacts

I've changed my bookmark-page to one of my group pages ... which they've forgot wreck so far ... so I don't get the shock of their ghastly photo-stream when I log in
 
The ads on flickr were never that intrusive, relative to other services. Of course the free model can only go so far, if people don't want to pay for it, they will put ads, then people may or may not leave. Of course the question is then, why didn't people want to pay for it in the first place ? 🙂
 
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... image courtesy of Bob France
 
ferider said:
I wonder about correlation of the flickr changes, and Yahoo acquiring tumblr.

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/05/flashback-how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet
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It is an interesting article, but I think flickr and tumblr could work well together. With optional integration, Yahoo, could design it so that photos could be simultaneously uploaded to flickr and to one's tumblr blog which could be made to look like the old flickr -- lots of white, etc -- so that everyone could live happily ever after.
 
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