One new thing I don't seem to mind is the header. Although, do not attempt to use a picture taken at a vertical angle for your header. Turns out to get that uniform look they compress all vertical photos to fit the view. Even if it's at the same resolution of the rest of the photos in your batch. If you try and use a vertical photo for your header, you get a warning about it being to small and its all pixelized.
Its just slow . . . or slower, anyway. Everyone at my work is complaining about it. If its not even as fast as the old site whats the fucking point? I'm staying with Flickr for now but the way it bombs-out constantly when trying to upload is like a kick in the balls when you've already been smacked in the chops. I've tried many times this afternoon to upload a few photos and it keeps timing out. "The connection has timed out. The server at http://www.flickr.com is taking too long to respond". I wish there was an acceptable alternative to Flickr.
They did state that if you don't like it, you should say so...and when you go on there and say it sucks, at least explain why you think it sucks rather than just saying it sucks. They like it when you at least have a clear and concise reason as to why you think it is terrible. Old flickr is gone. Live with it. Tell them what you want to see in the new flickr...and don't say old flickr. The site being slow could be a number of things from your browser, plug-ins, bandwidth, but the slowness is one thing you can bet on that they will say it is on the user and not them (even if it is on their side). They won't see how slow it is because they've been looking at the new flickr for months before we did. Moog, how much stuff are you uploading a day? There's probably a tool you can grab that will tell you if they are timing out or if you are timing out.
^^^ Yeah . . . I'm living with it. Its not a problem at my end . . . there are loads of people complaining on the help forums about how slow it is recently.
Whenever I view an image by itself, it flickers and jumps around like an old TV screen... pretty annoying.
I'm still find it odd that I really don't see a lot of the issues you guys have (other than the ugly part) and my computer is probably a 5 year old mid-spec machine. The site is a little slow but not so slow that I have time to open a new tab and go to something bookmarked. Jeff, maybe your computer is possessed...
FU flickr. Maybe I don't want to create a Yahoo account. You don't think people have enough BS accounts that they need to make more to continue to use services they are already members of? Fuck. You guys at Yahoo HQ might not be aware of it, but, surprisingly, no one wants to use Altavista for their search engine anymore either. As far as I can tell, the principle use of Yahoo accounts is made up by Iranians and Japanese (not making any judgements on that, just saying from my own experience; it is a limited - and shrinking - market). Forcing people to try and use your service (what, for more ad exposure?) is just plain stupid and shortsighted. You don't have a monopoly on the service, and have been ever gradually diminishing its quality anyways. You took something okay and decided to crush it to squeeze every last drop of potential manipulation you could from it. Way to go. Why don't you buy up an alternative to PP and try and integrate that as the only payment method available in all Yahoo services?
I am surprised I am the only one that is really pissed off about this right now. This amounts to holding your account (and photos) hostage, by forcing you to sign up to a Yahoo service just to access the site and all of your own content. I have ownership over those photos. This is worse than a bank coming along and selling your mortgage to someone else. I am sorry, but I did not agree to that in the service contract, and you cannot simply force changes on someone after the fact by holding their property. I know the analogies are extreme, and I am not trying to make this out as more than it is, but fact is, this is racketeering and extortion. Sign up or give up. I know it is a simple email service (plus whatever else Yahoo wants from you I am sure to come), but that isn't the point. I'd really like to continue to post some photos here, nevermind at least get my own from flickr, but this is testing my patience.
Okay, one last thing, as this seems to be getting worse all the time. From doing some reading up on comments from others who have also has this issue in the recent 'switch,' it not only seems that Yahoo wants to change the way you login, but, and this makes sense since you are creating a new account, when you do start a new Yahoo login, you might not be able to link it to your existing flickr profile and hence all of your old photos. Thus you might be forced to start from scratch even if you do create the new Yahoo login. WTF. The customer service over there is just horrible. https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us ... 3967712554 You know what? If I have to spend hours reading the help forum and all these comments just to learn how to transfer all my already existing photos to some new Yahoo profile, guess what, people aren't going to want to do it. If I am not going to be able to merge/transfer/combine what I already have, then what the hell is the incentive to making a new account anyways? Your service sucks. FU. Talk about messing up a decent thing. https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us ... 184024056/ Google, I hope you are paying attention and are ready to roll out a replacement. Those idiots at Yahoo have given you everything you need at this point. The map of what to do (and not do) and the community is all there. I would gladly welcome a switch to a google linked service. Surely an innovative company like that must be able to handle the simplicity of a 'flickr.' Thanks Markus Spiering. You have put the final nail in the coffin. https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us ... 055/page5/ And one last FU. That is all.
I've been using Google photos for awhile since it backs up automatically from my phone and it's super easy to do from my camera. They have a great service but I don't know that it's a Flickr replacement just yet. I also use Google+ a lot which makes it even better for me. Hopefully Google will continue to evolve the service in the right direction.
Steve, I'm not really sure I follow. I have a flickr account and when I opened it I had to create a yahoo mail account. Are you saying that when you opened it this was not the case? You opened it directly from flickr and now they force you to do it? Or are there some new changes I am unaware of?
No, I can't even log in to flickr as it stands right now. I will have to create a Yahoo account, whereas I had always been using my gmail login, which is one thing - I would rather not, but okay - but now it seems like even if you do do this, it might not even, at least easily, link up to your old profile. Basically Yahoo has changed it so that anyone using flickr now has to have a Yahoo ID, which was not the case, and since you are creating a "new" one, your profile is also new. I am sure it is doable, and maybe is not such a big thing to have yet another login ID for something, but I take issue with them not giving us a choice, and if I do consent, I have to do a lot of work just to use something I already am a member of.
Weird. I remember having to create a Yahoo account when I first registered in 2011. Thought it was a normal procedure My main issue with Flickr is the new app version. Keep crashing whenever I want to upload ..I..
I have no issue with Flickr because I've had a Yahoo account since around 2002, but I will say whenever Yahoo takes over something it's a bit insidious! I recently cancelled my Tumblr account because I suddenly could not upload pictures. When I emailed support they just suggested I change my browser to Chrome or Firefox (that with Tumblr constantly having a banner asking me to upgrade to Chrome or Firefox on my homepage was the last straw). I told the rep to fuck off and suggested he learn to actually troubleshoot rather than suggest changing browsers.
Not a fan and haven't really used Flickr in a long while. Kinda sad as I loved Flickr before it tried to be Instagram.
Flickr Question. You used to be able to right click and set up printing. Is that option not available anymore? How to a fucking print something?
Flickr screwed the pooch when they changed the format.How anyone has the patience to stick with it baffles me! Twatter is just fuckin' inane and all the sucky ads and off-site links have allbut killed my interest in FB. Instagram seems to be an inspired concept . . . just waiting to see how they'll eventually fuck it up!
MFer. In my disappointment with the service, I haven't even added any pics or used flickr at all recently, but after coming back to it today doing some of the usual toy researching, I found out that they have added ads in when you scroll through someone's album. As in, instead of a photo, the ad comes up as filling the whole flickr 'page' of the photostream - like a photo! - not just on the side or anything. ADS??!! Are you fucking kidding me? After all of the other shit you have already made us deal with and all the hoops we have to jump through? Full page ADS???!!!- -I did not agree to that, and I especially don't want my flickr photos being linked to goddamn viagra, trivago or fucking match.com. FU Yahoo and flickr. You are officially scum in my books and have mismanaged your key product into a dump and are hopefully losing market share in the double digits daily. Seriously, take your ads and fuck the hell off.
Free Flickr account: 1 TB of photo and video storage Limitlessly download your original photos Ad free Flickr account: $49.99 per year No ads in your browsing experience I get how they need to have ads now that accounts are free, but how the paid accounts got from $25 to $50 a year is sort of baffling me.
Ads yes, that is the nature of the internet, and one most of us have grown to accept - particularly with free services. I am not naive, obviously these companies need to generate a revenue stream, but when it becomes intrusive is when it goes too far. To the point where these now "mimic" the content of the persons flickr account, that is wholly unacceptable. Ads can be present, before, after, or during a 'break' of a service, but cannot be thrown in to the product you are using. What if a sports game was interrupted mid-feed to hock the latest pharmaceutical? I am so tired of ads becoming ubiquitous in every aspect of our lives. And just laying down and accepting is worse. If anything, the greater connectivity of the electronic era means larger customer base, not smaller, and so reaching all these people should result in it being easier to reach funding goals, not more difficult. Times have changed, but it should be ingenuity and new methods we reward, not the pitiable attempts at applying 19th century marketing to the 21st century audience. I don't remember if I posted this here before, but more and more I am thinking São Paulo had the right idea all along. Let's get back to enjoying the beauty of our world and natural lives without being bombarded with advertisements. It is possible to live without an all-consumer disposable society.
Wow, great law! Too bad some zealots included murals like Os Gemeos'... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... in_america
