Flickr Redesign
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- SlashPeckham0
great new mobile and desktop experience, great community, brilliant API and technology and overall one of the very best photo sharing service on the web. however the new design uses too much black and other dark colours on the UI - this just doesn't feel like the well considered brand we all know - a little bit rushed from this POV
- Apparently they started the redesign in March, so there ya go.duckseason
- inteliboy0
Doesn't feel like the place where great photographers or pro's will post their work...
They should have opted for something more high-end. Not another endless blog photo stream.
- auxillary0
Looks like a mediocre "thirteen-in-a-dozen" Wordpress theme...
- kingsteven0
Used to do loads of stuff with the API for clients, but over 5 or so years it seems most of the accounts have been orphaned in overcomplicated yahoo account migration processes... clients log in and there are no photos, old photos are on an account with same username - no way to access the old account, fail to prove ownership after repeated emails to support. Fuck Yahoo
- webazoot0
Its like they designed it, You Know, For Kids...
Looks fine as a photobucket/tumbleresq site but doesn't look in any way 'professional' and it pushes away the focus on community interaction.
Also to me all those images squashed together or viewed singularly on a multicolored background just devalues the image itself. Seems like a move toward a different kind of website altogether whist trying to retain the Flickr name and some of its user base.
- animatedgif0
Who gives a shit?
Too little too late and unless they have fired their entire engineering and management teams then we know exactly what to expect from this joke of a company.
- hans_glib0
the extra space would have been useful ages ago when I abandoned it for free space elsewhere.
The new design is just awful. SO cluttered and visually chaotic despite the grid. I mean the old design wasn't up to much, but at least it gave the images room to breathe.
- oey0
^
true.
images need room to breathe.
- uan0
new flickr + tumblr...they are going for g+ or fb users.
- utopian0
Yahoo...Soon
- instrmntl0
"There's no such thing as Flickr Pro because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, there's no such thing, really, as professional photographers when there's everything that's professional photographers. Certainly there's varying levels of skills but we didn't want to have a Flickr Pro anymore. We wanted everyone to have professional quality photo space and sharing." - Marissa Mayer, May 2013
- Chimp0
As hans_glib said before there is no room for the photos to breath.
One downfall of this current trend of wall to wall grid of images.
Looks like no one thought of how photos are best displayed and just applied the latest trend.
- i_monk0
I like all the script timeout errors it generates in Firefox, and how it takes a few minutes to load anything.
- see_thru0
....I just went to my page and uttered what the fuck in front of colleagues.
- mg330
Man... anyone update the mobile app? WTF did they do to it? I seriously don't get some of these app redesigns. It worked FINE before. UX was great. Now I can't tell where to edit title / description when I upload from my phone, and there's no evident way to add tags or add to groups. All of that was there before.
- Krassy0
^ they got Yahooooo'd
- mg330
I just don't get it. From a UX perspective, some of these redesigns baffle me. I mean, they can't have user research that validates taking away core features, or radically changing the interface so that everything is totally unrecognizable. d
- inteliboy0
There's still great stuff on flickr if you follow the right people. Though sadly this is absolutely swamped by awful shit that for who knows what reason has 99+ faves and heaps of comments. Baffles and pisses me off.
- Krassy0
Flickr was AWESOME about 6-7 years ago: user experience, interface, content, features, community, etc. Everything was just right. Sadly, we have witnessed something near-perfect crumble because of poor decisions made by the wrong people who took over.