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]

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.