WTF, FLICKR?!?!

[furtech]

I went to my Flickr page and felt like I ran into a neon wall: WTF, Flickr? They have completely changed the layout from a clean, easy-to-navigate page to a psychotic collage of giant images and hard-to-find controls. Oh, and with no option to keep the original page layout.

I am now looking for a new photo archive if anyone has suggestions! I want a service that I can manage the page design (being able to pick out a style) and I don't mind paying for it.

Comments

[okojosan.livejournal.com]

Ugh yes. I don't use Flickr myself but I do cadge photos from it for a Tumblr I run and I discovered the "new" Flickr yesterday. Bleah.

Well, give thanks to Yahoo! :)

Another photo archive I've seen that I like a lot is 500px.com .

[furtech.livejournal.com]

A few people have mentioned 500px, but unless there is the ability to alter the homepage view and how it's organized, it looks like everything I hate about the new Flickr.

The other services I've seen mentioned:
Ipernity
Trovebox
razzi.me

A couple of those also have Flickr ports, but I don't know how much they bring over (I'm particularly concerned about the captions and security settings).

[okojosan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't use any of these services because I host my photos on my own sites. I do like 500px because it started out looking the way it did, and of course other than linking to photos I find on it I don't deal with it much.

I suppose you're too busy to set up a Wordpress gallery? I haven't looked into that myself but I know they have templates for photo galleries. I'm not sure if you do batch uploads to Flickr or if Wordpress supports that.

Anyway, you have my sincere condolences- see my rant about Yahoo buying Tumblr recently. :/

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Mostly I'm ticked off because of the whole cutesy-fake attitude they give their official messages...like they're trying to be our hipster-pal. EG: "Lastly, you may not be aware that our FAQs and forums are
full of help goodness". Really? "help goodness"? The "official" personality they throw out there reminds me of the Jack-in-the-Box social media girl:

http://youtu.be/d1u77Zwb_Hw

Great ad-- that girl is *exactly* what corps. think "the youth" is these days.

I will check wordpress out...I think I already have an account there. They were pretty responsive when I first started an account there.

Re: Tumblr-- yeah, I felt for you when I read that. I don't use Tumblr that much, so it didn't hit as big a button as the Flickr did for me (where I've invested so much time). Every company Yahoo buys goes through the same transformation from cool, useful site (how it got popular) into a repulsively corporate site (like something Yahoo would have developed in-house). Really hating Yahoo now.

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

I like the new flickr because I have freeee photo storage now. |The old Flickr was easier to navigate, but I actually don't mind this so much.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

If Yahoo/Flickr gave us the option to stay with the old or adopt the new, I'd be a happy customer (I even have a paid account already). What enrages me is that out of the blue they shove this "new, improved" format down our throats with -no- choice in the matter. The free extra storage is nice, but I don't use Flickr with portable devices; what I liked/needed most with Flickr was nothing like the new look.

After being a paying customer for several years and taking the time to upload hundreds of captioned, tagged photos to Flickr, I feel my commitment betrayed.

[merrycalliope.livejournal.com]

Weird, on the Contacts page you used to be able to set how the images displayed but it seems they removed that since the launch of the new design. That's dumb.

That said, I'm tired of being upset about change and since I have a good ad-blocker I'll probably stick with Flickr. I wouldn't have the will or energy to move everything elsewhere anyway unless something really fantastic presented itself as an option. And that would eventually be bought by Yahoo anyway.

[chuck-melville.livejournal.com]

"I know these engineers! They just love to change things!"

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

They've caught up with you..... the heartless experienceless careless 14 year old coders of they last few years, and probable few more into the future... ;P

So people love a website and go there because they like it? Let's Change It!

So people love using some software that they have grown comfortable with? Let's Hide Things!

feh..... it's disgusting ;P ...wish I had a better answer for ya, but I'd say find an old school site for what you do (images, hosting, etc) and go with that... preferably if it's managed by someone you know and cares about things... chances are they won't mess with the site.

The big big big websites though.... pleasure there will be fleeting :/

[kvogel.livejournal.com]

I bailed on flickr years ago after an earlier "new and improved" phase. I'm on photobucket, but they just "new and improved" it and I now can't recommend it at all.