Yahoo’s Design Chief to Depart

[Bille]

Laughing my ass off:

the company has started to redesign several of its flagship sites including (...) Flickr, its photo-sharing Web site. But many of those updates have been publicly lambasted.
(...) ”The face-lift yields an extremely cluttered interface that befits the need for the cramped ugliness that you find on many Asian sites,”

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/...arts-amid-design-criticisms/?pagewanted=print

 

[David Murphy]

I just went to Flickr after not having been there in a few weeks - I hate the new layout - hate it. Reminds of Windows 8 in a weird sort of way.

 

[redisburning]

the real problem is there is this weird assumption that what end users really want is a website with a bazillion large images that runs like complete and utter **** even on a high end pc.

seriously I have windows 7 64 pro, 8gb of the best mushkin memory money can buy, a 2500k and a high end dedicated video card and flickr runs like such complete ass that I actually have to control my desire to punch the programmer through my monior.

 

[Bingley]

There has been an exodus of Flickr users to other sites b/c of the new user interface. Quite a few of us are ending up on ipernity, which is kind of like the old Flickr. Whether Flickr remains worth hanging around remains to be seen; I'll be interested to see if the site responds to all the criticism.

 

[sgtnikolaix]

I was pissed when they changed it. Why change something that is already good enough (and ruin it in the process)...

Hope they change it back to be honest too!

 

[Bill58]

I wonder if he/she was the same person who recently came up w/ the "improved" homepage too. That caused a huge outrage too....that seems to have subsided in resignation to the reality that Yahoo mgmt. doesn't give a rat's ass about what their users think.

 

[jarski]

seriously I have windows 7 64 pro, 8gb of the best mushkin memory money can buy, a 2500k and a high end dedicated video card and flickr runs like such complete ass that I actually have to control my desire to punch the programmer through my monior.

faster the machine, faster Windows jams it. change to Mac 🙂

no Flickr speed issues with Mac Air Late 2010.

 

[Sunti]

This is what happens when a company doesn't allow its people to work from home ;-)

 

[Ranchu]

Maybe try a phone.

 

[gb hill]

This is a hoot. Thea Lamkin, staff at flickr flipping off all the haters.

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/299745/16223777

 

[Chris101]

This is a hoot. Thea Lamkin, staff at flickr flipping off all the haters.

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/299745/16223777

This girl obviously needs to be telecommuting!

 

[Michael Markey]

Good news ...

 

[Sparrow]

... had one of my designers done that home-page they'd have been re-educated at that point ... not after I'd had a bollocking from the customer

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

faster the machine, faster Windows jams it. change to Mac 🙂

no Flickr speed issues with Mac Air Late 2010.

It runs pretty slow on my 8-core Mac Pro that has 12 gig of RAM.