(The most popular ‘real’ camera at present is the Canon EOS 5D Mark II). Like it or not, iPhones are now the most popular cameras on Flickr, even according to the Flickr site itself. Instagram was perhaps the first platform to capitalise on the rise of smartphone photography and some have suggested that Flickr should have seen this coming. One of the bigger issues for Flickr is whether these changes will stem the decline in the site’s market share of photo-sharing.įlickr was once Number One in photo-sharing but rival platforms have since overtaken it, particularly Facebook and its former rival ( now acquisition) Instagram.
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This isn’t a “make or break” issue for me, especially since I can keep access with my legacy Pro account but I believe this was an attractive feature that many people would have found useful (I certainly did). For instance, there’s no way to get back to the start of the app from photo pages or even this Photostream page: Irritating people with too many notifications on their device isn’t a good move. My recommendation is that a couple of these options be “on” and the rest are “off” by default. Within minutes of updating the app, my phone started beeping and it immediately became intensely annoying. Share activity: (1) Shared a set with you (2) Shared a photo with you.Group activity: (1) Invited to join a group (2) Photo invited to a group (3) Join request approved (4) Photo request approved (5) Join approval needed (6) Photo approval needed.Other photo activity: (1) Comment after you (2) Only from my contacts (3) Mention in photo comment (4) Mention in set comment (5) Mentioned you in a photo.Your photo activity: (1) Comment on your photo (2) Favourite your photo (3) Added tag to your photo (4) People added to photo (5) Comment on your set.My contact joins Flickr: (1) Contacts from my phone (2) Facebook friends (3) Following on Twitter.My gripe with the Flickr app is the notifications option, which is set to “on” for all 23 of these options: Whilst I am lucky by Australian standards (I am on a 12Mbps connection), I agree with Thomas Hawk who states that site designers can’t always design for the lowest common denominator and people need to make an effort to keep their computer systems up-to-date. In fact, I am quite impressed with the speed given the number of images that will load under certain scenarios. Whilst I have noticed that search results in particular can be somewhat slower to load, photos and photostreams seem to be loading efficiently.
Some users have complained that the new highly graphical Flickr interface makes the site slow. These look really nice, especially when a combination of portrait- and landscape-oriented pictures are combined. Photographs look better on a black background and I prefer the larger format of images – just as any photographer would!Ī massive improvement also comes with the ’tiled’ photostream and search result pages, which follow in the footsteps of the ‘contacts’ pages that were upgraded last year. I have heard complaints but I have to say that in general, I like the new look. Now that the website has completely re-launched, I thought it may be an opportune time to review where Flickr has been in the last 18 months as well as take a look at the new plans on offer.
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My biggest gripes were that (1) Flickr’s front page didn’t do its job, (2) that the mapping feature was woefully inadequate, (3) that the social aspect of the site needed modernising and (4) that I was concerned that Facebook and Google Plus were taking Flickr’s customer base. The changes have been controversial (and overshadowed by Yahoo’s purchase of Tumblr) but nevertheless, I thought I’d comment about my favourite social media website now that I have had a chance to inspect the changes for myself.īack in January 2012, I wrote a lengthy blog post about Flickr’s deficiencies. I love the new-look Flickr but there’s still some room for improvement to make the site truly “awesome”.Ī couple of weeks ago, global photo-sharing website Flickr launched a brand new look and introduced some significant changes to their paid account offerings.
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