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Post by snoggle on May 9, 2015 12:21:15 GMT
Anyone else fed up with yet more changes to Flickr?
- auto tags applied to photos by a robot and which are completely meaningless. Currently trying to delete hundreds of the d*mn things.
- yet another new design of photostream page
- changes to albums which also delete the words used to describe them along with any comments or conversations on those albums.
I really am fed up with those nonsensical, inappropriate and dictatorial way of running a photo website service.
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Post by Nathan on May 9, 2015 12:41:14 GMT
I think its good that they are actively changing and adding features to the service. They've recently updated the Android app with a more Material Design-like look, which I quite like.
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Post by snoggle on May 9, 2015 20:55:33 GMT
I think its good that they are actively changing and adding features to the service. They've recently updated the Android app with a more Material Design-like look, which I quite like. There is nothing wrong with sensible, properly implemented changes that users want. Flickr just keeps changing and changing with the implementation often being to a poor standard with bugs and with features that people don't want. Two examples - forever changing the presentation of photos and backgrounds which increases the loading time for each shot. Second - the recent implementation of "auto tags" which nobody asked for. Worse Flickr has overriden the personal controls that people have set as to if / how tags are used. I don't really use tags but thanks to Flickr's botched implementation [1] I have had to spend hours today deleted the crap they have implemented. I've got thousands of photos which I now have to amend courtesy of their half arsed useless implementation that did not include an "opt out" facility. There are hundreds of complaints on the Help Forum demanding an opt out. If Flickr want to own my photographs and exploit them then they can pay me a fair price. I pay for my Flickr subscription so they've no right to exploit my copyright nor to monetise the data they've decided to impose. [1] Not a single one of my bus photos has been auto tagged with the word "bus". I assume that there are no buses in the USA where Flickr are based and that no one at Flickr knows what a bus is.
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Post by vjaska on May 9, 2015 23:32:59 GMT
I think its good that they are actively changing and adding features to the service. They've recently updated the Android app with a more Material Design-like look, which I quite like. I've the IOS app and it's quite good though a few improvements would make it near prefect. However, I find the website to not be to the same standard as the app. Pics take longer to load and sometimes, they don't even bother loading properly - this doesn't happen at all on the app.
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Post by snoggle on May 10, 2015 10:49:47 GMT
I think its good that they are actively changing and adding features to the service. They've recently updated the Android app with a more Material Design-like look, which I quite like. I've the IOS app and it's quite good though a few improvements would make it near prefect. However, I find the website to not be to the same standard as the app. Pics take longer to load and sometimes, they don't even bother loading properly - this doesn't happen at all on the app. Which shows where Flickr have decided their market place is - people using mobile phones to post selfies or irrelevant garbage. The problem is that a vast proportion of the user base on Flickr takes photos because photography is a hobby or even a business for them. Flickr seem to be completely ignoring the history of the site and the community element that has developed over many years. The only reason people are sticking with Flickr through all the nonsensical changes is the sheer difficulty of shifting hundreds or thousands of photos to another site.
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Post by vjaska on May 10, 2015 12:45:32 GMT
I've the IOS app and it's quite good though a few improvements would make it near prefect. However, I find the website to not be to the same standard as the app. Pics take longer to load and sometimes, they don't even bother loading properly - this doesn't happen at all on the app. Which shows where Flickr have decided their market place is - people using mobile phones to post selfies or irrelevant garbage. The problem is that a vast proportion of the user base on Flickr takes photos because photography is a hobby or even a business for them. Flickr seem to be completely ignoring the history of the site and the community element that has developed over many years. The only reason people are sticking with Flickr through all the nonsensical changes is the sheer difficulty of shifting hundreds or thousands of photos to another site. And also because of fotopic going belly up - had they been still around, Flickr would not be as big as they are.
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Post by smiler52 on May 10, 2015 19:10:54 GMT
have to say im not a fan of the new flickr wish yahoo would let things be
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Post by Green Kitten on May 10, 2015 19:57:57 GMT
I haven't been a fan of it since it loaded more pictures in the exact same fashion as Google. It makes everything irritatingly slow.
d**nit call me old-fashioned but I like to flick through pages separately! ;D
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