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Flickr has gone all pretty
- Thread starter Briar
- Start date
- Location
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Name
- Sue
Great idea, Will. I think I'll do the same.
Just as a matter of interest... has Fluidr taken over from FlickRiver? Is one better than the other?
mick / Lumix
Regular
- Location
- UK
You can now upload full res photos, very useful for those who download without asking ! In the UK the law is changing to help thieves with the so called "orphan photos", anyone more cynical would suspect a conspiracy coming together !! Not that it bothers me as my photos are creative commons. Flickr is a mess, I may well leave soon. Not sure why some of you complain about pussy photos.
I don't know, they are both still functioning so i presume not. The reason I chose Fluidr is that they have all the flickr information about the image next to it and Flickriver doesn't.
john m flores
All-Pro
Do you have any number on this? I'd imagine that a single streaming HD video would eat more bandwidth than a really long infinite stream, but I could be wrong. For example, I just created a 3 minute HD video for online streaming and it's 500 MB. That's a lot of screen resolution photos.
john m flores
All-Pro
Wow. That's interesting. That's about the same size of the 3 minute video that I mentioned. The photos are much larger, so I guess that's the price to pay. If you shrink your browser window and refresh, the stream images become smaller.
I think that I'm in the minority here, but I like the stream, and clicking on a photo brings it up against a black background with minimal data to distract. Yes, other things are missing, EXIF, extra clicks to get stuff done, but they have moved the photos front and center, which I approve of. It's about the photos after all.
My problem with it all is not that I can't find anything or do anything - of course, it's all there, no significant changes there - but it is about the way both my own stream, and my contacts' streams, are presented : a dense wall of images which just overwhelms me and in which no one image stands out from the next.
For me the photographs were always seemed central. When I was 40 I still liked going into a club and having the bass pummel my kidneys and overwhelm my senses. Now I'd just recoil and feel sick. And that's what the new look does for me. So maybe I'm simply a dinosaur.
Such a shame, such a waste. All they had to do was introduce this but with some options for how you wanted to present & view, and no-one would have worried.
For me the photographs were always seemed central. When I was 40 I still liked going into a club and having the bass pummel my kidneys and overwhelm my senses. Now I'd just recoil and feel sick. And that's what the new look does for me. So maybe I'm simply a dinosaur.
Such a shame, such a waste. All they had to do was introduce this but with some options for how you wanted to present & view, and no-one would have worried.
john m flores
All-Pro
After using the new design a bit, I actually find myself more inclined to post comments because I can see a large image and add a comment from within the stream instead of the old way of clicking to an individual photo, adding a comment, and then hitting back twice to get back to the old stream.
If Flickr gave people an option of viewing a stream with just one image per row (not side by side) and a simple way to access EXIF (maybe via a rollover or a small icon?) I bet they'd address some of the issues raised here.
If Flickr gave people an option of viewing a stream with just one image per row (not side by side) and a simple way to access EXIF (maybe via a rollover or a small icon?) I bet they'd address some of the issues raised here.
- Location
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Name
- Sue
One might hope, but it seems that removing options is the way Yahoo and Google have gone.
I've subsequently worked out how to use Flickr from the iPad, which is a good thing. Uploading seems a bit fraught but I can do that from photosync and edit later, anyway. Editing has become more obvious the longer I'm using it. I don't know if I will stay with Flickr but I havent found a good alternate so... pfft. soldier on!
Yeats
All-Pro
- Location
- New Jersey, USA
- Name
- Chris
Flickr is so "in your face" and totally lacking subtlety that, if I were a pro or serious photog, I'd be embarrassed to let a potential client see my photos on it.
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI USA
- Name
- Luke
Andrewteee
All-Pro
Lightmancer
Legend
- Location
- Sunny Frimley
- Name
- Bill Palmer
I think they have "jumped the shark". I, many of my contacts and all my images are therefore off to Ipernity. Once the deed is done I shall cash in my Pro, make all my images private and benefit from the online "backup".
Sent from another Galaxy
Sent from another Galaxy
- Location
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Name
- Sue
You've begun using ipernity? I'm just worried it will turn into a dud that dies in a couple of years. How are you finding it?
Lightmancer
Legend
- Location
- Sunny Frimley
- Name
- Bill Palmer
Very good so far. They are quick to respond to queries and the user interface is good - and "familiar". There is a rapidly growing community of ex-Flickr users who want to "make it better" we have already seen a backlash against those ghastly (often flashing) "comment banners" that people use on Flickr - pretty well everyone does not want them on Ipernity.
I think it is good and has the potential to be better if they manage the growth challenges.
Sent from another Galaxy
I think it is good and has the potential to be better if they manage the growth challenges.
Sent from another Galaxy
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
I just had a look at Ipernity, it looks very close to the original Flickr format before they changed it.
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI USA
- Name
- Luke
I think the guy that wrote that article needs a good slap in the face. I am not the "who moved my cheese" type of guy and the new flickr layout is really only better for the types who prefer a large buffet of acceptable food to a small dish of well prepared food.
