Flickr update

Yeah, but I could see it home…
I didn’t like then neither…
Why would I want something that mimics facebook? Oh that’s right, I don’t…

Looks nothing like Facebook.

Drac: you are kidding right? buddy icon and cover photo. No you are right, looks nothing like it at all…. 🙄

It’s always had that as has many other places even before Facebook an Avatar doesn’t make something look like facebook.

Never had a cover photo before. I kinda liked the buddy icon. But the old one doesn’t work anymore, it’s telling me to upload a new ‘better’ one.
Just more bandwidth sucking shite.
For those with real world ‘slow’ connections, that’s just what we needed.
PS are you being paid by yahoo or something? 😉

Looks better to me. I never liked the old layout.

also…

How do you double unlimited?

and them balls are still spinning…

PS are you being paid by yahoo or something?

I am Mr Yahoo.

Never had a cover photo before. I kinda liked the buddy icon. But the old one doesn’t work anymore, it’s telling me to upload a new one.

I had no idea what you meant by cover photo so logged in (at work) and it all loaded dead fast, no spinning balls here. The cover photo tho only shows, as far as i could tell, when you hover over your buddy icon. Thats not something i really do much tbh… [edit]just seen that it shows when in sets etc. it dont take up any space that wasnt wasted before tho, so no harm done as i see it.[/edit]

All the menu functions work as they always have as far as i can see. I think the pics are a bit big, be nice if you could shrink them down a little as otherwise you get a high-res view of someones crap photo’s they just uploaded to sort or edit. Thats the main fault as i see it.

So are we saying that there is no longer a 300pic for non pro users?

apparently not, id like to know what the ‘adevertising’ is for non-pro users?

massivelyModerately dislike it (starting to like the “You” page with collage) . I also just wasted 15minutes trying to find the account settings so that I could un-subscribe from my pro-account to take advantage of the increase free storage. In the end I had to resort to going back to their email and following the links from that.

Couldn’t they have given an option to update rather than force it on everyone?

Anyone know how long I should be waiting for my balls to stop spinning then ?

(Pro user here, logged on from work).

My balls have been spinning all day so far 😯

I might bookmark this adoption as my Flickr “landing page” http://www.flickr.com/photos/YOURUSERNAME/?details=1

Well, no amount of Drac’s best attempt at being a Yahoo rep will keep me long term. I really don’t like what they’ve done to it, from a functionality or a looks perspective.

So…. as I’ve not been in the market for a photo-hosting site for about five years, what’s good? Or to rephrase that, what’s most like Flickr was until 24 hours ago?

Here’s the details:

What’s the difference between a Free, Ad Free, and Doublr account?

There are three kinds of accounts to choose from at Flickr, and all of them are awesome in their own way.

Free:

1 Terabyte of photo and video storage
Upload photos of up to 200MB per photo
Upload 1080p HD videos of up to 1GB each
Video playback of up to 3 minutes each
Upload and download in full original quality
Ad Free:

$49.99 per year
All the benefits of a free account
No ads in your browsing experience

Doublr:

$499.99 per year
2 Terabytes of photo and video space
All the benefits of a free account

What used to be offered with a Pro account?

Flickr Pro is no longer available for purchase, but many of the Pro-only features are now part of free Flickr accounts.

Here is what you used to get with Pro:

Unlimited photo uploads (50MB per photo)
Unlimited video uploads (90 seconds max, 500MB per video)
The ability to show HD Video
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
Archiving of high-resolution original images
The ability to replace a photo
Post any of your photos or videos in up to 60 group pools
View count and referrer statistics
Limitation of maximum image size available to others
Ad-free browsing and sharing

Thats me Grandfathered in to my Pro account then! …until they change their minds.

The only explanation I can think of is that they’re about to start sticking ads everywhere. You can pay $50 so you don’t have to see them, but they’re still going to be all over your photo pages for everyone else.

Also the design is godawful.

Glad I’ve got a pro account, I’ll be keeping it. 🙂
I quite like the new layout.
Biggest gripe so far is I can only select my cover photo from a limited range of my recent uploads.

upload a new one?

Its not the end of the world. I’ve got some nice pics recently, so I’m using this:

Its just odd that I couldn’t use my full photostream to select one.

Good to see some people are keeping a sense of proportion about it:

When Yahoo bought out Flickr I did not speak up

When they changed Organize to Organize and Create I did not speak up

When they changed “Flickr” to “Flickr From Yahoo!” I did not speak up

When they added Videos to the mix I did not speak up

When they made Snapfish a default and solely available printing service I did not speak up

When they put photo titles on the bottom of the photos I did not speak up

When they sold off our photos for a pittance to Getty Images I did not speak up

When they came for my pro account no one was left to speak up for me

Good to see some people are keeping a sense of proportion about it:

Yup while others get a bit melodramatic.

Still cant select the relevant piece of code..

“<img src=”http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8413/8699310051_a4af667a1d_c.jpg&#8221; width=”800″ height=”450″ alt=”sunset Ochils”>“

I get all of this and then edit it down to this:
“http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8413/8699310051_a4af667a1d_c.jpg&#8221;

to make it work but can only do that after posting it on here.

Apparently some folks don’t mind poor user experience and loads of ad’s, yes photobox users I’m looking at you!!!!

First impressions? I like it, but then I’m probably target market. Fast internet, (relatively) new and fast hardware and a consumer rather than Pro. Flickr integrates nicely with iPhoto which is the main reason I use it. My easily pleased and shallow self likes the new look.

You need to select the BBCode, not the HTML (use the wee radio button underneath the code box)

It’s pretty shit.
And it’s buggy.
And it justifies the pictures? Thanks!
Not having a decent b/b connection atm its spinning balls a lot.
Infact, yes, it’s spinning balls. How apt.
And why are they copying facebooks top banner?
I think I hate it.

+1 Utter shite

Completely unusable on a 3G dongle connection, whereas yesterday it worked fine. I just get endless blank pages loading.

Ipernity may be your new friend….

http://www.ipernity.com/home/metalheart

Yup while others get a bit melodramatic.

Well I spent a lot of time of Flickr (as much as on here) so I’m pissed off with the spinning balls, etc.

It’s not as I didn’t use the new ‘display mode’ as a feature on occasion but I want the option of when.

Plus it looks like they’ve ‘changed direction’. And I personally don’t like it. Or what it might mean.

ETA: just checked in to look at the ‘help’ forum main thread… okay, I get the melodramatic thing now!

the new android flickr app is dumb
load it up, and it insists on showing you either photos from either groups you’re in or contacts’ photos, or recent comment activity on photos, but there’s no way to get it to show your own stream by default (except if you hit android home softkey).

they’re obviously trying to make it a social thing, leave it running 24/7, and no longer a photo album. edit: and if you kill it with ATK, it starts up with the settings display 😕

I can sort of “get” that. Why would you use a Flickr app to look at your own photos?

I’ve been happily paying for Pro for a few years but I’m really only using it to share photos with friends or as hosting for sites like STW or my blog. I’ve been swithering recently about simply using Facebook for that sort of thing and this sort of makes my mind up.

Hmmm need to give it a go on the PC but on the tablet the website gets a thumbs down. flickr folio is much better than the official app

thought this was interesting/telling:

http://www.techhive.com/article/2039414/the-new-flickr-goodbye-customers-hello-ads.html

esp the bit about overpriced subs!

Well I spent a lot of time of Flickr (as much as on here) so I’m pissed off with the spinning balls, etc.

I wasn’t talking about you but the predictable “When” post.

since it’s also one of several apps that want to manage your photos and sync camera to cloud, you’d think that going directly to your stream to manage them would at least be an option. ok it’s possible with one touch, but it’s busy downloading fat full res images (afaict) from friends first of all.

just deleted the app. that taught it a lesson. served it right for autostarting and being so slow.

now it’s just dropbox and g+ that want to take control and sync to cloud (but have been told not to).

Hmm very slow and buggy at the moment (Pro user) pages load with a randomness only usually seen from alcoholics

WTF have they done?

If you add ?details=1 to the end of your stream URL, you get something approximating the ‘old’ view back.

If you add ?details=1 to the end of your stream URL, you get something approximating the ‘old’ view back.

Which just proves to me how much I prefer the new look!