Wow, big flickr change...

Hi John.
Its still not loading a page directly from links though .
I having to go to the first icon on the right of the screen which then takes me to the slide show screen.
 
Is it just my imagination, or has Profiles disappeared? I can't find either my own or anyone else's. Some people have really cool stuff in their profiles; maybe that's all gone now?

I also don't like the minimalization of information for a lot of things. Click on one of your sets, for example, and the description you so carefully wrote has been reduced to just one or two lines at the top of the page. I don't see a way to expand it to the whole paragraph. Yes, it shows if you mouse-over it; is that the new default? Why even bother.

I also don't see any EXIF data. My own nor anyone else's.
 
Well, some of my contacts post nudes frequently.

SOOO...There's an A$$, big as Christmas, on my front page right now.

Thanks for that Flickr guys. Way to think it through.

I'll use Flickr at work very carefully from here on out.

I guess I'm a narcissistic, but I like to see my stats when I log in, and not my contacts' photos. When it comes down to it, I care about me, first and foremost, and I'll see about you if I have time.

The Black Background on the main photo pages--come one, rethink this. Galleries don't do this. When people print, they don't do this (who mattes in black, seriously?). Magnum Doesn't do this. Boston.com (Big Picture) doesn't do this. Atlantic Monthly (In Focus) doesn't do this. National Geographic doesn't do this. I need to be able to see the edges in order to make out the composition; otherwise the image kind of gets lost and indistinct.

The Justified View crowds everything a bit too much. I take a lot of 'portait oriented' photos (vertical), and those are effectively de-emphasized because this format makes them smaller in relation to the horizontal photos. Kinda sucks. Also, I can't see the photo info with the pictures. I like being able to see that.

I think they're going in the right direction, but they need to remember to make the site image focused, and that doesn't necessarily mean covering every square inch of the page with images. Overload, man. The Image (singular), not the images (plural), which, of course, are different things.

I mean, the site may have needed an overhaul, and I'm cool with that, but I don't think it need's a Tumbler/Instagram interface in order to make the images look cooler. I mean, we create the content, and that content should stand on it's own. There's a reason art galleries are really plain.

I think it's a bit patronizing when they presume to make the photos look better or more appealing. I know they aren't adding filters or forcing them into square frames, but they are still forcing a certain perspective, forcing a certain way of viewing the material. This I disagree with.

The site is about the Image.

Everything is built on that.

The groups are built on that, and the groups are one of the most unique and wonderful things about the internet.

If the flickr groups die, something will have really been lost, and for no good reason.

Maybe not. I don't want to get all death and dower, so I won't. I actually like change.

But I like it more when form follows function, and a lot of what I've seen on the new site seems too violate that.
 
OK, I've decided that I think the new flickr is a BIG improvement over the old one. I've been using it a bunch this morning, uploading, organizing, etc, and everything I used to do I can still do, and I think the photo layout looks much nicer than it used to look. The only things (so far) I don't like the cliched Ken Burns photo panning and the way contacts are displayed. I don't use flickr for the community aspect of it, so the way it tries to force that is kind of annoying. Why does everything have to be social media?

But all in all, I'm really digging the new flickr. The upgrade prices I could do without, but I re-upped for the pro account a couple months ago, so I don't have to worry about that just yet.
 
css9450 said:
Is it just my imagination, or has Profiles disappeared? I can't find either my own or anyone else's. Some people have really cool stuff in their profiles; maybe that's all gone now?

I also don't like the minimalization of information for a lot of things. Click on one of your sets, for example, and the description you so carefully wrote has been reduced to just one or two lines at the top of the page. I don't see a way to expand it to the whole paragraph. Yes, it shows if you mouse-over it; is that the new default? Why even bother.

I also don't see any EXIF data. My own nor anyone else's.
Click to expand...

Profile: click on a persons name. In his/her photostream click on the three dots (right above). Click on Profile.

EXIF: when in the detail view of a photo, click on the three dots (right under the photo). Click on EXIF.

The description of the photos is just under the photo, as long and nice as you wrote it. Maybe it's necessary that you scroll down a bit.
 
I like the change. The homepage is now oriented around showing contacts' photos in an easily-viewable stream, which fixes the main problem I had with Flickr: it was a bear to keep up with what your contacts had been posting.

As for the single-photo view, I like how everything important is above the cut and all the secondary information is below the cut. And now I no longer have to click, click, click to see the photo at a resolution bigger than the default circa 2006.

I've allowed my Flickr to go fallow over the past couple of years, but this might get me to come back.
 
Quite right!

wilonstott said:
I think they're going in the right direction, but they need to remember to make the site image focused, and that doesn't necessarily mean covering every square inch of the page with images. Overload, man. The Image (singular), not the images (plural), which, of course, are different things.

I mean, the site may have needed an overhaul, and I'm cool with that, but I don't think it need's a Tumbler/Instagram interface in order to make the images look cooler. I mean, we create the content, and that content should stand on it's own. There's a reason art galleries are really plain.

I think it's a bit patronizing when they presume to make the photos look better or more appealing. I know they aren't adding filters or forcing them into square frames, but they are still forcing a certain perspective, forcing a certain way of viewing the material. This I disagree with.

The site is about the Image.

Everything is built on that.
Click to expand...
 
tom.w.bn said:
How come that the flickr groups will die? Strange thought.
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... it has become really difficult to see ones contacts' photos and comments ... the old layout had 25 or 30 per page now one gets one an a half before having to use the clunky scroll function ... it certainly wasn't designed for use with my old imac
 
My goodness, such hate!

As a heavy Flickr user (4 years 'pro' and counting, close to 4000 photos, over a million views) I have to say I absolutely love it. Took me about 5 min to find everything I want to access and the new way of showing pictures is nothing short of brilliant. Way, way better than before.
 
tom.w.bn said:
How come that the flickr groups will die? Strange thought.
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I'm not saying they will.

But if the core user base gets turned off, and there's a mass exodus, then with the users go the groups.

Groups need members.

Before that I imply that I didn't want to get ahead of myself, which I don't.

However, I'd be lying if I said that wasn't a concern of mine.
 
Very few positive comments about the changes on the sight itself.
Accepting that some here welcome the changes , I don`t think that the implementation has been thought through.

Giving people the option to migrate to the new format may have been a better idea.
 
regularchickens said:
I like the change. The homepage is now oriented around showing contacts' photos in an easily-viewable stream, which fixes the main problem I had with Flickr: it was a bear to keep up with what your contacts had been posting.
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Yes but the contacts photos has become the MAIN part of the homepage which is utter nonsense as far as I'm concerned. I have a Flickr account to post my own images not show off all my contacts images. It would be fine to have something a lot smaller for contacts images on the home page.

Plus if you try to scroll down to the bottom of the home page to get to the menu, all that happens is the page fills up with MORE contact photos and the menu disappears off the bottom off the screen.

Very bad design !!

Not had any problems with the rest of it though.

Ronnie
 
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