Comments on: Flickr Changes Most Popular Page on the Site, Users Go Bonkers

By: Chessa!

Chessa! — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:11:00 +0000

I don’t mind the new page so much either…so far. You can customize it to your liking with “mute” and other ways. People complain on Flickr all the time.

By: Mike Wood

Mike Wood — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:24:00 +0000

Its not bad and I have been using it in beta since about August. No where near as drastic as the Facebook redesign…

I like the muting aspect. What I don’t like is that it doesn’t show all the comments in a given time frame only the last handful. And it doesn’t always display HTML content in comments. So it appears to be large chunks of blank now and then.

And the time frames for recent activity were limit to not 1, 2, 4, 8, 12 hours etc., but 1 hour, 8 hours and a day and larger increments. For people who get lots of comments that’s a pain if you don’t want to sift through and scroll through the last 8 hours but maybe the last 2hours at most.

There is also no way to see from the recent activity page if someone has left a testimonial for you. That is no longer visible from there. I have left comments and suggestions in that massive Help Forum post but well, I don’t think they are going to change anything.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:12:00 +0000

I am able to use the new homepage, but it makes everything more difficult than before, and it also wastes a lot of homepage space (flickr blog, blank space) while it clutters a small portion of the screen. I think the old home page was in for a big makeover, but god… this doesn’t make any sense Anyway, life goes on and shit happens, it’s just a fact of life. It’s still good old flickr in everything else, after all.

Anyway it’s funny that the users making the harshest comments and showing more stubborness are not those asking for the old homepage, but the ones who can’t accept that other people don’t like the new homepage. I think they should understand that now things are more complicated, and it’s only natural that some people prefer the old style. I can’t see why they make such a fuss about them if they are already happy with the new homepage.

By: jeffd

jeffd — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:17:00 +0000

Sound like Facebook’s recent changes. It’s silly how some people react negatively to ANY change, no matter how beneficial it might be.

By: David

David — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:49:00 +0000

I really like flickrs new page. One thing that makes me wonder is, why didnt they make this change a little sooner?
Its easily customized. You can get almost what you got before, though looking a little different, but at the same time gives you a new experience.

One thing I would like to see in the future, is being able to show my favourites on my photopage. Its not just my photos I want to show, but also my taste when it comes to others photograhy skills.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:57:00 +0000

I think it's a mistake of the flickr team to replace the old homepage without leaving users the option to choose which one they want. adding features is good, taking away not.

they were right to offer multiple options of how a photostream should look. leaving the old homepage as an option would not have hurt anyone.

there seems to be a bit of a nanny culture going on.

By: Trevor Carpenter

Trevor Carpenter — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:42:00 +0000

Not being a developer, I'm not sure if this would work...

Could someone develop a service that taps into the API and basically serves up the old information, in a way that is similar to the old Activity page?

That idea is free...

By: Thiago Silva

Thiago Silva — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:33:00 +0000

I like it too, I’ve NEVER used the old “comments you made” page because it was actually impossible to find stuff. Now, I’m sure if I keep on muting the “coll shot” ones, soon enough I’ll be able to track only the ones I care.

Plus, Flickr needs a whole redesign, for all pages. If we kill the idea in the nest now, it will just send the message “leave everything as is”.

By the way, I’ve noticed a “Check interestingness rating” link on my photo properties. I clicked on it and it got stuck on “Searching flickr”, but hey, maybe FINALLY we’ll be able to get this info without having to go to Flickr Scout.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:39:00 +0000

The new pages are a UI designers nightmare.
I cannot understand why they didn’t do am “opt out” feature and then drop the old one later. That is the normal practice.
I for one am very disappointed at Flickr’s disregard for real people.
The changes appeal to my teenager, but not to me as an adult business man.

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:55:00 +0000

You know, I feel the same way. I was invited to a group trying to petition to get the old homepage back, and I declined it. I rather like the new homepage, and it was in dire need of a refresh.

Now, content is easily visible, much more dynamic and interactive, and makes better use of screen real estate. I'm quite pleased, and all the people flipping out about it are just inable to accept change and learn something new.

Get out of your rusty creaky habits, and learn to explore something new for once. Change happens, get used to it.