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Flickr
You should hang your head in shame for this update
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The Times Square event is hilarious! Money would be better spent trying to understand actual flickr users.
Yahoo/flickr developers brainwashed themselves. Crippy.
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While most of us will get used to the new format with a few tweeks from Flickr, the most urgent problem to address is that of the photostreams not loading and being faced with the rotating balls. It works fine on my laptop at home, but on my work computer (64 bit machine running Windows 7) it won't. I can see my photostream in edit, but if I want to look at contacts' images, I cant see their photostream at all. I can see their sets, but can't open them. This may be due to some limitations our IT Nazis put on my web settings, but it seems to be common to a lot of users and unless Flickr addresses this or explains to us what is possibly wrong with our settings, people will walk away. This will be a shame, because the Flickr community has been a joy to be involved with.
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I want to use a photo which I had already uploaded (in 2010) for my "cover photo. Naturally, the knuckldraggers at Yahoo won't allow that. Fucking COME ON! this is supposed to be a photo site. Can't you get the basics right?
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How do we get our money back?
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I got this email from Yahoo after I asked them to get rid of this horrible new look:
Thank you for contacting Yahoo! Flickr.
I apologize for any difficulties you are experiencing with the new Flickr layout.
Once you have been upgraded to the new Flickr, it is no longer possible to switch to an earlier version. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
The older version of Flickr is being phased out, so all of our customers must be upgraded.
We know it’s an adjustment to get started in a new interface, but we think it’s well worth it.
You'll see that the new Flickr is fast, easy to use, and available anywhere.
Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Flickr.
Regards,
Derrick
Yahoo! Customer Care
What a load of CRAP!!! I cannot believe they NEVER offered ANY sort of Beta testing. Now to find out that they are going DOUBLE the price so you don't see ads, or get this crap for free and now have to ignore the ads. What a load of TOTAL CRAP!!!!
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Did someone noticed that the Flickr colors are gone?They used to be up on the left corner. Now a logo in white, just a impersonal thing.
Have worked for 30 years in marketing area and, boy, this will be a case for study.
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where do we go to get a refund ?
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I just hate it
- I don't recall a single serious photo gallery I've visited ever that exhibited prints on black walls
- I don't recall a single gallery where prints were exhibited as a patchwork quilt
- I don't recall a single gallery where i couldn't stand back and consider a print on it's own merit with no interference from others rammed up against it or swallowed in a black cloak
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I can't even find a way to add my photographs to Groups! It worked ok yesterday but not now, why?
Change this back to the Classic view please
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Hate the new look. Hate not being asked if I want the new format. Is there a way to go back to the old format? I would so like to opt out of the major overhaul/ruination of Flickr :(
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If only...
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Well the appearance of that webpage is comment enough.
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" ... was a decision that we would not have the Flickr Pro piece anymore, and that all - there's no such thing as Flickr Pro, because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, there is no such thing really as professional photographers, when there's everything is professional photographers. Certainly there is varying levels of skills, but we didn't want to have a Flickr Pro anymore, we wanted everyone to have professional quality photos, space, and sharing."
What ignorant and uninformed BS!
As a fairly serious amateur, I sure can appreciate the work of the professionals and understand what it takes to become a working professional. . We constantly learn from you!
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Cannot use flickr this way!!
Why did you change it?
It worked fine ...
What was there to repair?
You really ruined flickr!!
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It's simply awful. What were you thinking? We should have been given a choice, just like Pinterest did with its new look.
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Check this blissfully ignorance arrogance:
Oh, Ms. Cindy Li, you do NOT speak for the internet. We're speaking here.
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Giving 1TB free is fantastic, but making it so slow and clunky to access what you up load makes that gift kind of pointless!
And I mean it really is slow, plus it keeps timing out on the HTTP connection (so I'm guessing the Flickr infrastructure is struggling too).
Plus on top of that it's just poor design, it fact it just seems there bolted bits on to the old pages here and there without any real design thought. The old pages were clear and functional, these are not, functionality is lost in what looks like something an ad agency would create (style over function). There's a good reason why the clever guys at Google don't try and sex up their plain search engine page, because it just gives users what they want.
What are you playing at Yahoo? First you send $1.1 billion on Tumblr, now this! Crazy!
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The fix for this fiasco seems pretty simple:
Flickr has for a long time had the user option of "customizing" their front page, choosing one of three options. All you (that would be you almighty Flickr controllers) need to do is add a fourth, default option which would be the new endless mash option. While I would prefer to have subsequent pages as they were before, I would be willing to have the new look show up beyond the front page. In line with this, even if someone chooses the old design (which I much prefer) you might give the visitor an option under "search" that would do what the new layout does. It is convenient for searching. Not for much else though.
My suspicion is that there is something about this new layout that Flickr regards as more conducive to advertising, but they are holding back on that until this wave of backlash fades. In regards to the latter: that might be wishful thinking.
Part of the irony (well maybe not so ironic if you folks are really trying to commit Flickrcide) of the simultaneity of the Tumblr acquisition with this "new look" is that with Tumblr one actually has considerable flexibility with designing the look of one's page.
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Thea Lamkin:
It has been over 24 hours and close to 14,000 negative and HATEFUL messages....when the HELL are you going to respond?!?!?!?!
You and ALL the Flickr 'brainwaves' are a bunch of IDIOT ASSES!!!
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What a shame that something that everyone was happy with was changed (sorry, destroyed) without any warning. A choice would have been nice, my photostream (when it does load) now looks dreadful, I liked having the the photos separated on the page with the sets/collections down the side - why can't we still have this as an option????????? Whatever happened to customer service?????? It certainly has been a very undemocratic way of bringing about changes - I loved flickr they way it was, it was easy to use and my friends and family could look at my photos with ease, but this new photostream page is just not user friendly at all. I fear that our protests and requests for a 'classic view' option (which would be the simplest solution) will be ignored and our only 'option' will be to abandon flickr altogether - a great shame, very sad.
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Dictators never listen, they just kill creativity.
What is the worst thing of all is that we had freedom before and now we are having our freedoms of choice taken away...and being made to pay more for the honour!!
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Another vote for ipernity.com
Please, everybody, sign up there and make it as great as Flickr once was. What makes a site like this great is critical mass of users. If we can push that site over the edge, it will soon be the new place for lovers of great photography to congregate.
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I would imagine that after such a disasterous implementation and so much negative feedback that any company would have been having emergency meetings all day about what direction to take from here. Once they establish that, they will then have to wait for the powers above them to go public with it
I'm hopefull for the fact of no official reaponse as yet means they are trying to plan the best work around, but I suspect they may just be trying to better word a "sorry your not happy, eff off if your not" response!
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Ever who thought up this fiasco should be on David Letterman's Stupid Human Tricks.
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www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/469500/20130521/flickr-update-...
At least someone is listening.
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GO PRO! go away... I don't like the new flickr. 'ADIOS! Flickr!' - now you know how I say goodbye to flickr in spanish, moving to a new account on ipernity.
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STILL WAITING FOR A FLICKR EXECUTIVE RESPONSE TO THESE VIEWS.
Is there anyone there?
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thirteen and a half thousand mostly negative comments and the site is still unworkable - change it back
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One TB sounds great, but I would happily forgo this for a return to the old flickr.
Innovation is not always progress - these changes seem to be an attempt to mimic other social media sites, why can't flickr just be flickr!?
I hate the black. I loathe the new homepage layout - it's a cluttered mess.
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Thea Lamkin</This is the point folks, if i wanted just a place to play around with my cell with 20 or some images i use Tumbler or Jux, but when you have years invested in images as you grow as a photographer you can not use a format like this where 1000 or more images are cramp in top of each other and all the comments are such are lost in another page, the whole purpose of having a flicker account is lost....was a small gallery, clean slate to try your new ideas or work and see how was received, you could concentrate in one image at a time and see what you would need to work on as you could to get inspired by others work.......yes a small gallery or sorts for more serious photographers and aficionados as well, i was not informed of this changes coming when they charge my credit card with another term of a pro account, not even a email to tell us what will happened with our work....i feel sad.....is lots of playgrounds out there to play with your pictures but was only one Flickr.....now is gone.....backing up my images, i dont need another Tumbler or Jux..
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NOTE to FLICKR STAFF:
When you SUDDENLY change a Democracy into a Dictatorship...you should expect Discord!!
Businesses grow and change, but not at the expense of their established customer base! JCPenny recently tried a supposedly ‘hip’ revamp…they are now apologizing to their old customers and begging them to return! Hopefully Flickr will recognize their mistakes before it is too late!
You should have implemented changes SLOWLY and gotten input along the way from your faithful followers. We have established long lasting communities on Flickr…your changes reflect that you don’t care how and why we were here! This was my community….and I now mourn the death of a loved one…………
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Shittr.
My only concern is that the community which I am a part of will be damaged as its members scatter across multiple replacement sites now, because for many staying is no longer an option- simply because if the new photostreams fail to load for them, there's no point in sticking around. Not that there's anything much to look at- it's super unpleasant to browse pictures now with all the clutter and visual overload. The community tools- comments, favourites, profiles etc- are pushed off into distant corners, hidden by default or just plain nowhere to be found. Flickr clones are now a better option than flickr itself.
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It's interesting that a help thread telling users how to delete all their photos on Flickr has now been closed down. A recent event, no doubt.
Trying to stop the horse from bolting after the stable has been burnt down
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been on since 2009 and it was a pleasure to come on now today just a headache and a bad mood.
if it doesn't change i'm leaving which is a shame because over those years I have made friends with people all over the world and even though I've never met them will feel really bad about leaving flickr
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Article on the change....
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petapixel.com/2013/05/21/rip-professional-photographers/?...
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I can't stand the new version of this website,
you at the flickr office just make me sad, I enjoyed the old site, now it's a total garbage
YOU JUST SCREWED UP FLICKR
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New layout is messy and you can't see comments. I also don't like how a search page just keeps getting longer and longer when you scroll down meaning my browser uses more and more memory. Can't the pictures be displayed over a number of pages like before and not one single extending page?
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So The \Powers That Be have said that it is impossible to change things back to the way they were?
Bull$%(%!
Of course it's possible! If it can be broken, then it can be fixed back to the way it used to be. Anyone who knows the basics of how to run a simple website knows that!
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Just logged on hoping yesterday was just a nightmare and old flickr would be back ! 13,500 complaints (plus a few positive shill comments), is flickr ever going to answer ...
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Precisely! Just what I said. nobody will read this though.
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Hi, I have an account (two accounts) prepaid until 2015, how do I switch to free account, I want a refund because I did not pay for this flickr service for sure. I want a refund. I want to leave.
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Using Windows 8 and Explorer:
1. Slide show never works-just pink and blue spinning balls.
2. In the juxtaposition mode every time Flickr loads more pictures Explorer bounces to another tab. (This was also true before this latest change to Flickr.)
Note to management: beef up quality control.
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Aside from the hateful new look of the thing, it takes forever to load up any of my sets. What used to be a "Click-two-three- there it is" is now an eternity spent waiting while the two balls (how apt....) wait for the site to load.
I gave up, ipernity here I come.
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My God what a remarkable jackass Mayer is to make this statement. Maybe when some of her Tumblr users start getting sued for copyright infringement she'll learn what professional photographer's care about.
I suspended my Creative Commons License over this and will start enforcing the violations against my copyrights that are on Tumblr right now. At last count we were over 2000.
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unclear:
I have to wonder if the Big Smile is because you think this is funny.
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PLEASE. CHANGE. this really is not to my liking. i really want the old layout back. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!
at least give the people who pay a choice
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I can't find where to Edit in Aviary or Replace a photo.
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I think it's great. Bit slow and buggy at the moment but that will get sorted. Keep it up Flickr!
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Please change it back to the old layout! This new layout is bandwidth consuming, and NOT COOL!
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This is HIDEOUS! Fire the stupid ignoramuses that designed and authorized these changes. I'm sure you've already heard, but the new "look and feel" is absolutely TERRIBLE!!!!!!! You just spent 1.1 BILLION to buy Tumblr, a negative revenue "Blog" and now THIS????? Who's the Monkey running this joint?
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Marissa Mayer is to Yahoo what Ron Johnson was to J.C. Penny. It took a while, but Flickr has finally been destroyed -- as everyone predicted would happen when Yahoo bought it.
I switched from Smugmug to Flickr Pro several years ago and was happy that I did...until today. I'm shocked by the piece of crap that you have created. Obviously, the purpose of Flickr has changed.
Rather than catering to adults truly interested in photography who were willing to pay for an account, your new goal appears to be creating a website catering to teenagers and college students who are happy to have ads plastered all over a photo (no doubt, sent in from a cellphone) of someone throwing up on their shoes after drinking too much. Good luck with that.
Count me out on renewing my pro account. Count me out on spending any time on Flicker at all.
The beauty of a competitive market is that incompetent firms go broke and so are driven out of the marketplace. The beauty of the internet is that the destruction of the incompetent usually happens at warp speed! Like a bad house guest, Yahoo has long overstayed its welcome on the internet. Marissa Mayer is the perfect candidate to destroy Yahoo once and for all. For that, I am thankful. She can take both Flickr and Tumblr with her. Call it a twofer.
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Thanks for the article. It is about time someone is listening to Flickr members.
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It is awful.
In old version I could see the small previews of contact's photos and a lot of webpage interface. I COULD decide what to do: to see bigger pictures or just look at small preview. But now flickr dumbfounds me with the full size pictures and uncomfortable interface without asking me. Damn...
It is a pity. I wouldn't like to migrate into another picture hosting site. But I'm afraid I'm forced to do so
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No pictures load on my flickr site. Hate the new flickr. I will not post any more photos to flickr. It's now junk.
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I cannot see any of my contacts' photostreams anymore.
All I get is rotating balls. I used to be able to see them immediately, so Why has it got worse of this is supposed to be an 'improvement'?
I'll say it again.........
PLEASE BRING BACK THE OLD FLICKR!!!!
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Flickr isn't working at all anymore except maybe this forum (which is very hard to get to since the page keep reloading over and over again)
This is what I get at any member's page now. Nice layout!? Actually better than the new flickr layout, haha ;-)
There was supposed to be a screen shot here but uploading isn't working on flickr anymore...
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First, I don't like the new layouts. Not sure who your test group was but they live in a strange box! Second, I'm relatively new to flickr but it just irks me that I just paid my $25 and now you want to double it for less features (in my opinion). What the heck do you think you will gain by giving away more free space. As is typical here in the great USA, the few subsidize the many! So lets double the price for those loyal users and give away more to the tightwads. Oh... and threaten us to pay more or else you get obnoxious adds all over our pages.
I came to Flickr because I'm an aspiring photographer at heart. I wanted a space to show my work, recieve feedback and learn from top notch photographers. You've all but screwed that by 1.) taking away the "Pro" designation for those serious people and 2.) giving away so much free space to be cluttered up with endless terabites of iPhone/smartphone crap photos. I think this is a very bad move and personally, I wish I had the programming skills because I would create a more friendly site that catered to the serious amature/pro photographer, not the blubbering teenager uploading photos of their stoned a$$!
Just my humble opinion...
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500PX and smugmug ect just popped bottles of Champagne. The only way they could come up like they are going to is if Flickr made a complete mess of it. They just ordered their custom Rolls Royces
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A lot of what we all liked about Flickr is still in place. I suggest that people calm down and check through all the functions.
The main thing is that they need to give us a choice as to whether to see the images justified or as icons of various sizes. That's true whether it's my photostream, a group's images, or a contact's images.
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WHoooo Hooooo Let give more space free and let the pro accounts pay for it, so free account users have more space for porn dumping and posting other people copyrighted images .
Yeah smart move Yahoo / flickr
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About a month ago I paid for two years of Pro. Now it looks like everything I have is now free. How do I get a refund?
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Why oh why have you ruined flickr
I will have to move to 500px and close my pro account now and I guess most people will have too do the same.
Mad, mad and treble mad. If it ain't broke don't break it.
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NOT HAPPY - Please change back and make the change optional for those few that love it.
I have a paid account so should have been asked what I want.
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after finding dozens of things to hate about the new Flickr I find I can't edit my screen name like before......only 20 characters allowed and you lose your old name if you alter it. Way to go Flickr!
Hope your stock and membership plummets like an anchor!
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New format is lousy garbage, cant navigate, cant see stats, photos load slower than molasses, hurts my eyes. why did you change over to this crap ?
PLEASE< RETURN TO THE WAY IT WAS.
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 Roscoe's AC:
www.ipernity.com/blog/team/485851
we will just have to keep posting and sharing this.
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FLICKR!!! Nooooooooooooo!
Now you are just taking the p**s
Clearly you are not listening to us! I already commented in here, telling you it looked too much like 500px. :-( But at least you had not gone with square thumbnails. In my previous post I asked you never to go down that route. At the time, sets were not displaying correctly. But what do I see now? Square thumbnails for the set covers!
Arrrgggggghhhh!
I think you should call one of these urgently, for first thing in the morning:
A board meeting!
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I cannot see any of my contacts' photostreams anymore.
All I get is rotating balls. I used to be able to see them immediately, so Why has it got worse if this is supposed to be an 'improvement'?
I'll say it again.........
PLEASE BRING BACK THE OLD FLICKR!!!!
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BTW...Marissa Mayer is ONE DUMB chick!
""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..."
REALLY?!?! You STUPID ASS!!!
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If I wanted tumblr, i'd be at tumblr, which you bought. Keep tumblr at tumblr and keep flickr at flickr. You can't combine the two and somehow make more money.
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Wow. What's going now. First Yahoo changes their email to make it way less efficient and then Google+ changes their interface to piss poor shell of it's former self and now this?
Where are all the software companies getting their user groups that tell them they should make these hideous and bandwidth hogging changes. Not everyone has super broadband connections. It's totally amazing. All the companies must be run by the developers now making these awful changes that are only good for keeping work for the dev people.
CHANGE IT BACK!
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The layout is more complex without adding any real value and worse still it does not work properly
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Roscoe's AC:
lol
After the stable has burnt down, the ground used as a cesspit for massacred bodies and a MvDonald's built on top.
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I’ve decided to update this to be more constructive; my admittedly knee jerk reaction as it wasn’t helpful really.
I don’t like the new design –having everything squashed together like Pinterest makes for a disruptive, disjointed and ultimately jarring experience. It devalues the photography in some ways reducing it down to just a load of thumbnails your scroll through endlessly. I get that a lot of other sites like 500px have got successful using a similar format so I guess there must be a market for it.
I would rather not have any terabytes than this design but I understand why you did it, you want the Instagram audience. You want mass market to sell more advertising, hedging your bets that you will make more from add revenue than you did from the people who went pro –I feel sorry for them. I get it, it worked for Facebook.
However please enable greater customisation, like choosing the background colour for light box, I view images on neutral grey for example and more view options in the justified views –you have nice options in the groups for example but not on the “contacts page” or the “you” page. More option in general couldn’t hurt, like re-sizing or changing these large black chunky menus, again colour and possibly size.
I’ll stick around for a bit, to see if things improve but I am further developing my other options (www.indexhibit.org/ and Tumblr) anticipating that things will stay the same. While pages load slowly, the CSS doesn’t seem to be broken any more –so I know you guys (Flickr) are trying.
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Very disappointed in the site change -- as far as desktop/laptop use the layout was fantastic before, everything worked smoothly, things were fast, etc. I am not at all impressed with the new layout/look/feel of Flickr -- The homepage when you log in is crowded and confusing and just not smooth.
Since the upgrade, I have not had a single successful upload either and everything is slow as molasses in January. Would be perfectly happy if a "system restore" was completed back to this weekend. To top it all off to offer a free terrabyte to all free customers and offer the pro customers really nothing (advanced stats is a joke really, not why I was using it) is somewhat a slap in the face to your loyal customers. Will look into other photo sharing sites, but unfortunately there was nothing in my opinion that compared to flickr (pre-new version).
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Not only has Thea Lamkin disabled her comments on her photostream but she's only been a member since Oct 2010...what right does she have over the people who have been here for years!!?? what makes her the know it all be all!!?? And her photostream is lame, she is just the type who is catering to all the other corporate money grubbing hipsters out there.....bring the old flickr back for those true photographers who deserve a listen....we're not old, we like organization, style, functionality, and not in your face clutter.
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I haven't read all 130 odd pages, so this may have been said
When using the arrows at the sides to scroll through photos, it doesn't stay on the set if you select it, it reverts to the photostream order by default and is, to be polite about it, v - annoying.
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I am displeased with the new changes to Flickr's Home page, Photostream page, Photo page and Set page -- they're unclear and bombastic. The simplicity and clarity of the old Flickr site design was something I was really fond of. Aside from its functionality, I also liked that the old site did not resemble the layout of common social media sites like Facebook, Google Plus, etc. (as it does now). It's really an unfortunate change.
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Pictures on my sets are only partial photos. It looks like I don't know how to take a photo. No one will look at my photos because you have done a crappy job of displaying the set.
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This is gigantic. Flickr managed to build the biggest Bullshit photo sharing site on earth. I mean, don't get me wrong. What kind of morons are running the show here. 15 year old semi educated Facebook idiots?
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I just don't like photos in the justified.. Should have option to change layout like there is in the groups.
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"My suspicion is that there is something about this new layout that Flickr regards as more conducive to advertising"
Their target market is now those on mobile devices and these are also the target for their advertising strategy. There's not a lot of screen space on a mobile device so white space is not good and the justified format they've now forced on everyone is what works best.
If they gave us an option to switch it on or off we wouldn't use it and that's not good for the mobile market they're targeting.
I don't really think they care that much. Say they lose 5% of their users but up their revenues by 10% from advertising that's a win for them. We're just collateral damage on the way to profit.
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Thea Lamkin :
Not what I paid for as PRO. Sooooooooooooo slow. Time to make the move to Smug Mug. Prefer to pay more for a quality product than skimp & put up with this unexpected slap in the face. Never lose sight of the fact that when people pay money to you they are customers and should be respected. This unsolicited wholesale change demonstrates a complete disregard of any respect!
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i take her comment (and stupid grin) as an insult to all photographers, pro or non pro.
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Blacking out was popular during the SOPA campaign.. Flickr used it as a powerful tool then, wonder how they'd feel if their user content driven site suddenly had no publicly accessible content?
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It's not a better, brighter flickr.
It's dark, dingy, crowded, and claustrophobic, and you can't see anything without scrolling. Scroll scroll scroll is now the flickr experience. Actually, scroll click scroll click, since you have to click to see older comments.
One major consequence has been to lose the collegiate social feeling where conversations were integral to the pics. Now they're missing all round, the description is mostly missing, old comments lost, everything is work to find in this dark and gloomy underground world.
The timehonoured mantra of document editors is "white space is gold, use white space for all sorts of reasons" has not just been ignored but trashed. Not only no white, but no space either.
The new layout is not relaxing or pleasant and just plain hard work.
Poor tumblr -- look what's coming!
It's sad because obviously flickr has talented people who have drive and committment working for it, but the high level decisions seem to be made by ... by people who just don't get what we like liked about flickr. It must be very dispiriting for those forced to work hard on universally disliked stuff.
Once again, what does flickr management use for input? Where do they get their feedback and guidance as to what works? Clearly not from their requested feedback or help forums, all studiously ignored for years.
Why is it so hard to be responsive and communicative?
Why is it so hard to avoid lurching off into a bad byway and convince yourself it's wonderful when any number of people will tell you the obvious?
 gauchocat: Flickr did ask for input for a few days from the poor bucket brigade, but as far as I can see studiously ignored everything that was said except for a couple of bugs.
I really wonder how flickr does test its concepts.
Turn on the lights again please.
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Nobody likes it and they don't care!
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As a UX designer, the one thing that should work is that when you resize your browser, the site should dynamically change the size of images.
Currently on my Mac with Chrome, you have to reload the page to have it resize the content on the page.
First rule of UX:
EVERYONE hates CHANGE
The second rule?
Change, in the end, is the only way to move forward.
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And what is everyone going to say when you bombard their photostreams with adds???????
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staff...pls inform Ms Mayer...i no longer wish to sell ads for Yahoo
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So I paid for Pro for nothing then?
Anyway, I can take the new look -- though I do think it's a bit of a knee jerk to the competition rather than a way of keeping it distinctive. I also think that the removal of PRO is a huge mistake -- it was one of the things that attracted me to the service and made me spend (no point renewing that, then). It made this a distintive service much different to the competitors (Instagrams horrible squares were becoming sooooo pervasive). All the things I liked about Flickr -- gone.
However, for me the worst thing currently is the speed of the thing. It's slow, and sometimes things seem not to load at all. Why? Coz you didn't think about that, that's why.
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Thea Lamkin:
The new flickr look makes me sad. There are too many photos thrown together on the page, and the navigational aids are too hard to find. I feel like I'll begin losing interest in flickr as it's harder to use now. Not as clean. Not as much necessary white space around each photo. Way too cluttered.
Please let us have a choice between the new and old look. I just don't like all those narrow slats of overlapping partial photos on the opening page. It is off putting.
Save that sort of look for your next art school project, ok
Sara Maewynia
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Don´t like this new version, it´s not user friendly and Flickr has lost all its "charm", would like better the old format.
I want to publish and share in a clever, neat, simple way... and I want photos to have their own space in order to appreciate them... now, that is impossible
I am considering to explore new sites where upload my photos
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The more I use it, the more I like it.
Really classy. Great work Flickr!
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anyone elses eyes hurt looking at these giant images???????
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I just had an amazing thing happen. I clicked on the 'more photos' link from a group homepage and instead of a justified view I got the normal small sized photos more in line with the capabilities of my 512 MB of un-upgradable RAM.
Do you think that staff could have saved us all a lot of grief if they just admitted that they released this upgrade just a little bit too soon or at least that it was going to take a few days for all things to settle?
I can't say that I understand how Flickr thinks. Is communicating with your customers verboten?
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Absolutely horrible. I don't want my Flickr page to look like a pimped-out version of Facebook's Timeline. Good thing I'm not renewing my Pro membership.
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New flickr:old flickr=Win 8:Win 7
Can I have a root canal instead?
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It makes a Chinese website look attractive.
It turned a mature functioning website into something ugly and broken.
After another day, my opinion hasn't improved. I hate it.
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