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Love the new homepage. I never spent much time on the old page since I would always quickly navigate to contacts, groups or photos. The added information and photos is the perfect amount to see what is new since I last logged in.
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After some playing around on the new homepage, I guess I like it and the options it offers. But I also have an issue with this "recent activity" thing: On the old homepage, I saw, when I had new comments, now I have to go and look. I usually don't check recent activity, if there are no new comments on my pictures.
Apart from that: Thumbs up! :-)
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Ugh. Too cluttered, too "lefty" (I preferred photos on the right, weird brain thing), I really dislike not having the separate "Comment You've made" and "Recent Activity" pages, I dislike the scant feel of some of the pages, and I dislike the slow loading times.
I agree with Shadow Viking
I'm currently using a ten year old computer, and the load times are even worse for me.
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As time goes by, my like of it has increased- except for the combination Recent Activity and Comments You've Made mode. I still find this irredeemably stupid.
If there's just a way to stay on the old style home page permanently, I'll be totally happy. I don't understand why the new version can't be an option instead of a change.
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Looks great. I'm loving the stats sparkline. Nice work!
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heather wrote Otherwise, if you haven't opted in yet and would like to avoid the "flickrness" of the experience (what we like to think of the whip cream and the cherry of our launches), then the following link is for you:
www.flickr.com/?humour=no
If we opt out now, can we opt back in at any time, or do we just wait till it rolls out fully?
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I like new home page a lot. Congratulations for such a improvement.
I have one think that likes in the old one better and it is a recent activity page.
On the "recent activity" under the my photo stream should reach to the activities around my photo stream and not from the entire community or group that I belong to.
The new "recent activity" page is interesting and good way to discover good photos but it should be under the more corresponding header.
If the new one show from entire community, it should under the EXPLORE, if it is from my contacts, it's under the "Your Contact" and so on.
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If there's just a way to stay on the old style home page permanently, I'll be totally happy. I don't understand why the new version can't be an option instead of a change.
I completely agree with this.
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some of my friends have already taken the plunge but they are not liking it...
umm..can we switch back? (please say yes)
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heather "what we like to think of the whip cream and the cherry of our launches"
Ohhhh. Dessert with launch lunch today.
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I like the new version but seriously did not like the sound that came with the loading of the new page. I really do not like sites that pump out sound when not expected. Bad.
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I like it. Although, I'm pretty well versed in greeting people in a billion languages by now, and would love an option to turn that off.
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I don't like the bundled activity personally. Anyway we could have an option to separate?
Everything else looks peachy so far.
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Ayeshaaz wrote some of my friends have already taken the plunge but they are not liking it...
umm..can we switch back? (please say yes)
Check the links in the thread opener - one is to go back to the non-beta version of the home page. (I would hardly expect the old one to be preserved as an option once this one is out of beta, though! I don't know *any* major websites that have done that.)
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Love it! It's super slick and shiny. Much better layout and easy to navigate. Thanks!!!
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YAY! i like that we can "mute" individual images. well done.
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Likes:
Stats link
10 contact photos
Groups & Explore photos included
Question:
Does everyone have stats? Or Pro only?
Request:
Split "Recent Activity" into "My Stream" and "My Comments"
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overall, pretty cool.
i liked it better with the photos on the right though.
also, i really, really don't like the recent activity of other people's photos mixed in with mine. at all.
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I have to say I love it! The things I naturally looked for on my homepage have shifted to the left-side of the page... Exactly this enhances my user experience... The look and feel remain crisp and clear... exactly what I'm used to from the UI team at Flickr... In short: thank you!
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Answer:
Only Pros have stats.
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It would be great if we can choose from our gropus to display pictures.
Great changes, pretty funny! greets from Mexico City.
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Adding another request to please separate the Recent Activity into 2 choices the way it was before, having either option viewable from the same page with just one click. I realize I can change the settings for only one or the other to show, but to have to change options and resave anytime I want to change views is just silly and time-consuming. I'm not a fan of the muddled Recent Activity soup that gets served me when I have both options ticked now.
Love the mute function, though.
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I like it, I never visited Comments You've Made enough.
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A toggle would be nice though
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please please please bring back the 'new comment' alert!
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I think this is great. The big stuff on the left and the small on the right, just like when viewing a photo or (some people's) photostreams. Good that you can see more of your contacts uploads directly on the start page.
I agree with on the group pictures. It would be great to chose which group's pictures that should be shown.
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I love it. Just swapping the 2 columns on the home page is much more in tune with how I view the site. I like that you show more previews from Contacts and Groups too.
I also love the discreet but easy-to-access activity graph on the home page. I post some of my personal work on Flickr and I really enjoy seeing what kind of traffic/views they get.
Congrats to the whole team!
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I love it. It's great. Only one thing, I wish I had separate panes for recent activity *not* on my photos, and for recent activity *on* my photos. I comment too on other people's work, so I miss alot of my own comments.
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I love the new Flickr home page - it's fresh. I'm not a huge fan of white space, but it looks pretty good, IMHO.
My one (ok - two) complaint is the fact that you can't toggle between comments on my photos, and comments I have made easily. It's hidden in the activity settings which I don't want to have to go into every single day. Oh, and the "NEW" icon beside activity would be neat as well...
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i don't like not being able to go to my recent comments on my stream...the way it was before was better. other than that it's fine.
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could use the "comments you made" link back on the page
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Adding my voice to the other requests to please separate out the recent activity between those comments left on my photos and comments left on photos I commented on. As someone said earlier in this thread, sometimes my time is limited & I don't like having to sift through all the images. I know I can change the preferences but I don't want to have to toggle back and forth. I do like to see the comments after I commented, but separated.
I also really miss the yellow "new" icon!
I can deal with the rest of the changes & do the like the addition of the recent group photos. Also love the ability to mute comment activity on individual photos.
Oh, and by the way, thank you.
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I haven't taken a look at the new Home Page, but already I agree that Recent Activity should be split between "Comments" and "Comments you've made" like in the current/old home page. I also love the yellow "NEW" icon that currently is in use in the old page.
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I like it!
(Would have liked a warning about the music before I blasted it across my office, though.)
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I've been just 5 minutes using it and would never go back to the old one.
The new activity page is also great.
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Another vote for being able to choose which groups I see rotated on the home page.
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omg, muted items in Recent Activity.
it's the holy grail of flickr upgrades!
big wet smooches, flickr! thank you thank you thank you.
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Cute :)
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Err, so... there's some sort of music when you enter the Flickr home page? Will it come every time you come to the homepage? And if so, can it also be muted?
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I like the old way of two separate links for "Comments" and "Comments you've made", the new single link of "Recent Activity" is too vague as I am not usually as much interested in comments I've made 8 months ago on someone else's photo than comments made on my photos.
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I LOVE the "mute" option now on that "activity" page. I don't think that has always been there (or has it and I'm slow?) - but there are loads of pictures I've commented on in the past that are still active. I'm glad I can mute those now!
All in all? So far I really like it.
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Okay, I just found the option to filter comments on my stuff from the comments on every photo I've ever commented on. I can live with that, but seriously I don't know what else you could have done to bury that option any deeper.
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I really like the new design but it would be great with some additional features :
- better use screen width (I'm using 1280x1024 screen) if it is available. There is a lot of lost space in the default screen, which could be use to display more photos
-it would be nice to be able to reorganise the default layout, move blocks around (just like Netvibes) : for instance, "Explore" is not visible after loading the page (because of too much content before) but the right column is full of free space : I would prefer to have Explore there.
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You might want to actually, you know, test drive this thing.
The new icon is still there.
The music plays during the transition.
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sohvimus, the music only happens when you switch over to the page so you won't have to worry about muting it every time you go to Flickr.
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This is seriously the best update Flickr has ever implemented. It is my favourite thing to happen in my last three and a half years on here!
LOVE it. Thanks for getting rid of all the wasted space and making everything so streamlined, customisable and pretty to look at at the same time.
Edit: Yes, I'm with everyone else - the only downside is the "recent activity" being everything together. For highly active members this could become an issue. But I do love the mute feature! YAY!
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I like it.
My favourites are the Stats and expanded Contacts section. Great job.
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Really like the new layout (especially the ability to mute the photos you watch), but I don't like not having comments you've made vs your comments separate. A quick and easy way to go between "Your Comments", "Comments You Made", and "Both" would be my ideal. :-p
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I like the layout, and love the stats graph. I definitely don't like the bundled recent activity. Is there an alternative?
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sohvimus wrote I also love the yellow "NEW" icon that currently is in use in the old page.
In the beta home page, if you *don't* have new activity, it will say so. Otherwise you see a link to the new activity.
That said, it seems oddly inconsistent (at the moment) to have the yellow flag for new photos from contacts but not for new other things.
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The yellow new flag shows up if you have hidden the display. If the display is visible, you just see the new stuff.
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too cluttered and I can't see if there are new comments etc without toggling.
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You've combined and made annoying the two links I click first when visiting my flickr page - recent comments on my photos, and comments i left on others photos. Now I have to toggle a freaking checkbox to see them separately?
That's super annoying.
As for the rest, it looks better, but doesn't add any value for me. I was hoping I'd be able to arrow through the photos from my contacts, maybe have more control over what I see from them.
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i would still like to see more tools for organizing, ordering, and viewing with regards to contacts.
further, I'd like to be able to move and hide/remove some of the sections. (e.g. remove explore/interesting)
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Meh. Why is the new trend towards taking away text on the left and sticking it on the right? I dislike that.
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I really like it. But can anyone tell me what the "NEW Pending" bit means next to my groups?
The "Pending" link just takes me to flickr.com/groups/
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If you are a group admin or moderator, that shows up when someone has submitted an image to your pool and it's sitting in your moderation queue.
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It looks good to me, but I I really don't want to see the "photos I've commented on" mixed up with the activity on my photos.
Someone wrote before that it gets too hard to mute photos one by one (when you're a compulsive commenter like me). I couldn't agree more.
It would be nice to split those sections, like in the old home page!!
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Looks good but my only complaint is why as a homepage are you still using a narrow column in the middle of the screen. The very stuff designed to make me explore more - i.e. links to Groups I might not have checked and the final thing promoting new groups or explore is pushed beyond the page fold.
Why not make the homepage at least, a little wider. I bet if you look at your analytics you'll see the majority of people are using wider screen resolutions now. Make use of the extra space.
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Like it lots. Interface is nice light and usable. Nothing shocking to make us scream and shout, just abit tidier and fresher and also helps to pull you in more in participating in groups and other projects taking place.
In fact you guys should go talk to Facebook, who have totally mucked up with their redesign. Way to go Flickr-peeps!
Yay!
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An amazing improvement. Good job Team Flickr!
A few nits and suggestions:
* Design/Interaction Nit: There's a interaction design collision between the pink "»" characters before the subheadings that have no functional value, and the disclosure triangles right below them that do. The effect is that it makes my eye ping-pong all over the place. Suggestion: Lose the distracting pink "»" characters. They don't do anything, and they confuse the functionality of the page.
* Personalization Nit: I really don't want a sparkline for my stats. I may be weird here, and I surely am, but I don't follow my Flickr stats, and I don't want to be reminded of them. It creates a gaming mentality that I find destructive to the community experience. Flickr allows me to customize so much of the new homepage. Let me turn the stats sparkline off, please.
* Groups Nit: Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems like the group that appears on my homepage is randomly picked from the groups I belong to. Random is okay for Explore and Tips, but I think Groups should be different, because we all have some groups we care about more than others. For example, I'd like to see an overview of the groups I admin or moderate. Doing this would help remind group creators to tend their groups. Suggestion: Instead of showing 5 recent photos from a random group, show me 5 groups I belong to, in order of most recently updated. Bonus Suggestion: Overlay the Admin or Moderator icon on groups I admin or moderate.
* Iconography Nit: The new Activity page is AMAZING. I love it. So this is a small nit, but nits are nits, so here goes. The icon for "mute" is unrecognizable. Then, once I recognized it as an eyeball, it's confusing, because the text is "mute" but it's an eyeball. Suggestion: Change the text to "hide" instead of "mute".
Rock on!
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ooh I like it :}
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@ColleenM thanks, I thought that, but then clicking on that link and even going to the only group I'm an admin of shows nothing in the queue. I guess it's a glitch.
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First impression? Love it. :] There's definitely still things that could be tweaked but, overall, I'm a fan.
Not sure anyone cares, but here my opinion on what a heard a lot of people saying:
'It's too cluttered and confusing':
I really don't think it is. It's confusing at first because it's different then what I was used to, but if you look at it, it really hasn't changed that much besides a new order of things- it's still very much like the old Flickr.
'I don't like the shift from the right side':
Ha, that threw me off at first. All in all, I think it's better on the left side. Weird to look at first, but it almost seems more natural that way. Like reading a book- you start from the left side...
'Merging of "recent comments" and "comments you've made"'
Yeah, I'm going to have to throw my hat in with everyone else and say I would REALLY like it if they were separated similar to before.
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I like it too. Especially the way I can stop following comments on my own as well as other's images. There are times when that will be extremely useful. :)
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i5m, I'll ask an engineer to take a look at that :)
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I like the new outlook, but I wish I had the choice to either use the seperate my comments section and the comments i've made section, like in the previous layout. I dont care who comments after me on a shot I commented on a month or a minute back!
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Love it. Love the ajax stuff on it, You can do lots of things from it, so, it's pretty cool. I'd love if i'd be able to customize it, and make the stats chart a little bit bigger.
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Me likey. But... (surely you were expecting that)
I agree with what someone said earlier having to scroll down is a shame - the compact single screen layout before was nice.
There's a big blank space on my new homepage below the blog link on the right. If it was me I'd have put the "Explore" stuff there, then it would all fit , unless the twisties were deployed. Or is that reserved for advertising for non-paying members?
That's probably my only gripe. On the whole it's a nice refresh. I am particularly impressed with the little mini stats graph - I thought it was just a generic icon at first, but then looked closer. Very cool.
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My overall impression is that the home page is fine for people who just started using the site, and basically useless for people who have been using it for a while.
Why is so much functionality hidden and buried? Why not do what every modern web site does, and offer a customizable home page (like iGoogle or even sfgate.com)? I would love to have a "recent comments" box on my home page, and I would love to always have the "Explore / Places" box, without having to click the cycle button ten times until I find what I want. I should be able to rearrange the boxes on my home page, and close the boxes I'm tired of and add new boxes that will keep me updated on the content I'm interested in on Flickr.
Instead of doing this, you guys took away functionality, by mixing in the comments you leave and the comments other people leave on your photos. This makes zero sense, and should win an award as the most insane UI decision of the year. Checking comments that other people leave on your photos is a completely different use case than following up on comments you've left on other people's photos. Yes, you can change this in your settings, but, why? You have to change your settings each time in order to filter your "activity". I can only assume that the person who made this decision did so to remove the number of links on the home page so it would be "cleaner", without regard for whether or not it would be useful to anyone.
The "cycle" button in the "Explore" and "Share what you know" boxes really says it all to me. Instead of doing something smart and allowing the user to customize their home page (and provide some very basic defaults so new users aren't left confused), you took functionality and hid it behind a button that you have to keep clicking until you can find what you want.
And my final criticism, why can't I page through thumbnails in my "Your Contacts" box? I still have to click through and load the full page.
This is a home page for a site made in 2003, not 2008. Truly a step backwards. Yes, it appears less cluttered, but the UI is convoluted with functionality intentionally taken away, with no options to customize your page.
Or put more simply, FAIL.
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the mute button? dudes, what took you so long?
so far, lovin' it. nice work, all.
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i'm missing the recent pics from random users.
the loading animation is sweeet :)
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Hooray for the mute button!!
:-))
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Philippe and Angie: Try clicking the "Mute activity on this item" icon that appears when hovering over the activity item and it will do just that.
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Philippe and Angie It's called 'muting' and its right there next to every comment you've ever made.
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I Absolutely Love It!
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I like it for the most part.
However the recently activity part is kinda sketchy. I liked being able to choose between seeing comments on my photos and comments I've left for others.
It's also kinda of strange to have so much open space on the left now and all the ads on the right...
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ow, the 'mute activity on this item' is great!!
@Philippe and Angie: isn't that the feature you refer?
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You can still find those.
Refresh the Explore section, and Everyone's photos will show up.
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I rather like it as well. At first I thought: "Oh, dear. This is going to drive me bonkers." But I nearly always think that. About everything.
Then I started playing around. Cool. Good job, folks! :-)
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please keep links: comments on my photos and comments I made on others photos separate pls.
mute = awesome
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my account reverted to free status recently and I was prompted whether I wanted to enable stats or not, thought that was only for pro members
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Loving it .. especially the "mute" button. I've been waiting for that for aaaaaages! =D Kudos to Flickr for the new hotness =)
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It was fine the way it was. Please use the Kiss principle as you continue to tweak this or at least give Flickr users more option to customize their own page.
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Generally, I like the new home page. My only complaint is that there seems to be a lot of dead space down the right side.
I absolutely loved the intro while the new page was loading for the first time. Listening to The Girl From Ipanema in old-skool midi was the high point of my day.
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Another complementation: the little yellow box on the left of your recent comments, was maybe the coolest function on flickr, and it was just as satisfying to see it than to actually read the comments itself.
It was so nice to open the home page, knowing right away that someone commented on your photostream without reading the content. Clicking that link was as rewarding as opening a real gift box.
Really geek, I know...but I got really used to it. And it wasn't so confusing as the new layout! Thanks!!!!
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Weird. Now I'm seeing Yellow New in Recent Activity, but how do you turn it off? The www.flickr.com/?clear=1 trick doesn't work any more.
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I LIKE IT, much of an enhancement, contrary to "some other web 2.0" service changing layout in a short time :)
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@Zack Sheppard. It seems to be working now. When I go to www.flickr.com/groups/ it correctly shows a group with a pending photo.
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The "Pending" link just takes me to flickr.com/groups/
Yup - my gut says it should take me to a list of only those groups that have pending photos.
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I'd prefer that too. I expected that, not my normal groups page.
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hooray! great work, flickr. the music, of course, is the best part.
i DO like that activity on my photos and "comments you've made" are lumped together, but perhaps there is some way to differentiate them? perhaps comments on my photos are hilighted or in an ever-so-slightly grey box?
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tnx @ColleenM
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The transition is just darling!
I also like the new page. Though I don't use it too much.
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*Karo*
You can't turn it off without logging out.
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The new home page is great, but I miss the separation between recent activity on my photos and comments I've made.
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Nope. I signed out and in two times and it's still there.
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"and I agree with those above who want their own and others' comments separated "
A big big ditto.
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I agree with wanting my own and other's comments separated as it gets confusing, and I have to manually change it just view one or the other.
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heather "what we like to think of the whip cream and the cherry of our launches"
on the group pictures. It would be great to chose which group's pictures that should be shown.
- agreed
Nope. I signed out and in two times and it's still there.
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