What's wrong with flickr

by javier on 6/11/2010

This is what’s wrong with flickr and why we made BlackVostok (among other reasons).

There are 10 comments in this article:

  1. 6/11/2010Tweets that mention What’s wrong with flickr - THE COSMONAUTS -- Topsy.com says:

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  2. 6/11/2010Jesús says:

    I disagree.

    Black Vostok is focused on consuming visual content.

    Flickr is an online photo (and video) sharing tool.

    Both have different purposes and both excel at it. One is aimed at passive consumption, the other is aimed at social interactions around visual objects. What you call crap is what makes social interactions work.

    So comparing them is quite tangential.

    Now, get me a gintonic. Quick.

  3. 6/11/2010Javier Cañada says:

    @Jesus, you may be right about flickr being more a social tool than a picture gallery, and I think that’s part of their mistake. They no longer know what their content is:

    1. Flickr is punishing content (pics) more and more in favor of all the rest. The image size has been the same for years now while monitors and resolutions get better over and over.

    2. After the last redesign the “all sizes” view is hidden.

    3. After the last redesign the user photostream is collapsed while your “social photostream is what’s expanded”

    3. The mobile version doesn’t allow you to zoom on pictures

    4. the % of picture over metastuff is decreasing with every redesign

    Yes, they are a social tool now. That’s why they suck now as a good photoalbum. I bet they have some social network guru abroad who convinced them that their content is not pictures but social connections.

  4. 7/11/2010Fran says:

    Uso mucho flickr, casi a diario, y aunque el último (¡¡¡y primer!!!) rediseño de la página me ha gustado bastante, le sigo viendo algunas lagunas a la interfaz.
    Quizá deberían darle un poco más de importancia a las imágenes, pero nunca, y ésta es mi opinión, sin dejar de lado el lado ‘social’ de la página.
    Saludos, buen blog!

  5. 7/11/2010Joan says:

    Sorry for the trolling guys, but this is what’s wrong with the internet… exaggerated sensacionalistic bs in respectable blogs. Flickr is ugly, always has been… doesn’t make it crap though…
    One question, in BlackVostok (which I love btw) how can I see the head of someone in a vertical photo?

  6. 7/11/2010Javier Cañada says:

    @Fran muy de acuerdo, el lado social de Flickr es bueno e importante pero no debería entorpecer al consumo de fotos sino complementarlo. Hay mil modos de hacer que ambas cosas no se estorben.

    Gracias por tu opinión.

  7. 8/11/2010DamagedGoods says:

    +1 to @gorriti’s comment. Contacts, sets & tags definitely are not crap on Flickr: community is the core, not just hosting images.

    BTW, I think their photoalbums are pretty cool:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/granthamilton/show/

  8. 8/11/2010Alberto says:

    I think we all get the bottom line here. At the end of the day, this is just for explaining/promoting BlackVostok and I bet Javier is himself a big flickr tagaholic and stats adicted.

    Anyway, I had a good time reading the post and comments. If featured on tputh, the headline could go “CAÑADA CAN’T FIND FLICKR’S SLIDESHOW BUTTON”. Would love that :D

  9. 8/11/2010Javier Cañada says:

    @Alberto

    True, I cannot find the goddam button, so what?

    I think you are just a bunch of flickrkarma whores here who suck for comments and getting favorited instead of enjoying good old photography ;)

    And yes, I’m all things -holic!

  10. 18/11/2010Andres says:

    What’s crap is Gorriti’s mug plastered on this page ;-)

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