Flickr Redesign
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- HijoDMaite0
hate it when i click on a photo in someone's photostream down a few pages including my own, then view it, then click back on my browser and I end up at the top of the photostream.
- also pisses me off when people don't post their camera settings Grrr!HijoDMaite
- Hombre_Lobo0
I hate the new Flickr design, and build.
Flickr used to be my favorite place on the internet by a mile. So easy to use and epic content.Now it's a horrible, slow clunky mess. So slow to the point it becomes a nightmare to use. And the layout is less useable than the devious design. From what I've seen lots of people seem to agree.
You'd think they'd revert the design back in a 'we listen to our users' good marketing move.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Krassy0
^ they got Yahooooo'd
- 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.
- see_thru0
....I just went to my page and uttered what the fuck in front of colleagues.
- i_monk0
I like all the script timeout errors it generates in Firefox, and how it takes a few minutes to load anything.
- 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.
- 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
- utopian0
Yahoo...Soon
- uan0
new flickr + tumblr...they are going for g+ or fb users.
- oey0
^
true.
images need room to breathe.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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