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For any Flickr users out there, they just rammed a poorly designed site update, which in my opinion totally wrecks everything! The discussion for input in their help forum has filled up with 4,300 comments in just a few hours, pretty much all negative...

Take a look at the new page for yourself... https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/

Now I'm not afraid of change, in case anyone is wondering, but...:rolleyes2:
 
I can't seem to find a previous photo of the main page, but I think some folks will remember...
 
My take: "developers" seem to want to show off the latest techniques they've learned, and tend to overwhelm a page - especially a home page - with so much "stuff" it's ridiculous.

For me with a 30Meg cable connection, it took about 45 seconds for your homepage to load. When it's finally loaded, I clicked one photo, and found the icons at the bottom of the photo to be unclear unless you hover over each. And "view in light box" seems only to enlarge the photo. All the CPU-intensive bells and whistles can be very frustrating to the end user.

It's sadly typical - the person designing a new site uses it on (or near) the server, and never sees how slow and "busy" the pages are to the person using the site via DSL or cable, several hundred miles away.

Same thing happened to me on Photobucket. When their pages and features were "improved", the order of the photos changed, and most of the text captions evaporated.

Tom
PS - regardless of the Flickr appearance, the content (i.e. your photos) is *excellent*. Bravo.
 
Ditto about Tom's comment on Photobucket. I am still trying to deal with the so-called "improvements". I was thinking of switching to Flickr but I've heard it's just as much of a mess.

And you should see what they did with Mylaps! (a website where lap times are recorded for all amatuer racers in the world).
They "accidentally" lost most of the user's data on that site when they tried to make it "better" (for example, they erased all my laptime data over the last 9 years). The owner sent out a long apology but that doesn't help.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it! :madder: :madder:
 
aeronca65t said:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it! :madder: :madder:
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Reminds me of a commercial from many years ago. Four guys are working on a server and tell another guy they're improving the system. The other guy says "If you improve the system like you did last week, we'll be out of business."

T.
 
I don't mind the change. You still have access to sets. If you put the cursor on the picture the description comes up. If you want to see how it used to look click on edit. Then again I don't use flikr all that much, so real photo guys may have some reservations.
 
TRMark said:
I don't mind the change. You still have access to sets. If you put the cursor on the picture the description comes up. If you want to see how it used to look click on edit. Then again I don't use flikr all that much, so real photo guys may have some reservations.
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Yes... real photo guys do have a few reservations, I know I certainly do, for the time being I'll choose to live with it I suppose, heck I've been on there for nine years now...
 
Even though I have a lot of photos in Photobucket, I switched to Flicker because it works smoothly for me and P bucket is really screwed up since the, "improvement"! Joke, Joke! I've just about cleaned out my Photobucket account. Who needs the aggravation, not me! PJ
 
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