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flickr Continues to Kill Off Core Community with "Features"
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by dysamoria | October 17, 2008 at 04:53 pm
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flickr's been rolling out new "features" that have been making users irate. At the moment, there are 2000+ complaints (one day after rolling out the change) all telling flickr management the same thing:
"THIS SUCKS."
Any guess as to when Heather Champ (the most arrogant and dominating of the censors) will lock this thread and ignore the users complaints out of hand? Read HERE
CNET has notified the public that there are even more changes to come. Seems that our pals at flickr have every intent to drive away every user that made it a success, hoping to eliminate dissent by eliminating everyone (driving them away in disgust) who MADE flickr successful in the first place. It's like corporate workplaces who lay off people who've been there for years and hire cheeper labor...
What once was a haven and a bridge to the photographic and art world for beginners and pro's alike has become a shady, commercialized, product, used and abused by its management without any recourse. See the other flickr articles posted by Jace for more info on this continuing story of how great products are ruined by their creators.
Hey flickr: It's the community, stupid; not the features.
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at 12:25 on October 18th, 2008
Heather's shitty attitude has done more to piss me off than the changes they've made. I'm not renewing my Pro account in February just because customer service over there sucks.
at 13:45 on October 18th, 2008
Most flickr uses who have an active network are pressed for time in trying to keep up with and respond to the activity on their photos. It doesn't seem that difficult to me for flickr to research and understand this about their active users. The old home page was very well suited to managing and responding to the activity on our photosteams. The new home page makes managing your activity very difficult.
There are many other problems and issues about the flickr interface that would have been worth changing and improving. Flickr seems to have a talent for doing what most users are either not interested in or messing up what is working well.
Flickr seems to have no concern for their users opinions and concerns. Arrogant is an accurate description of the flickr approach to their customer.
If you are a flickr user please join with us in a one week strike here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/870783@N25/
at 13:52 on October 18th, 2008
I am on strike, this is the only way to get some attention from Flickr's staff.
Photographers made Flickr what is is - without your photos - Flickr is nothing.
at 10:20 on October 23rd, 2008
Flickr still keeps all of us in standby.
Some of us are in strike for a week.
I am in strike forever.
Photographers made Flickr what it is ( or better say, it was )
I am paying for their services and I have advertises on my home page.
Yes, I can click a button and apparently they go - but they are still there. Forum is a comic tragedy soap opera - it should be included in a cure for depressives.
It is a shame for Yahoo.
It is a shame for an American site.
at 16:23 on March 24th, 2009
Flickr is beginning to bug me, I have just paid to keep my pro account alive for another year. having been an active paying member of the community now for the past two years. They have seen fit to mark restrictions on this image, absolutely ludicrous.
at 16:59 on October 17th, 2008
all good things must flickr to an end
at 17:04 on October 17th, 2008
Wow - it is really hated! I had no idea the feelings were that strong towards the new design
at 17:18 on October 17th, 2008
I just deleted some pics in my account, and it took like 5 mouse clicks to make them go away
at 12:35 on October 18th, 2008
Is there a better place to do what we were doing on flickr???
at 13:01 on October 18th, 2008
dysamoria, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 13:15 on October 18th, 2008
Flickr began life as a sort of online shoebox, but its users made it so much more. Yahoo! messes with that at Flickr's own peril.
at 13:51 on October 18th, 2008
I am on strike, this is the only way to get some attention from Flickr's staff.
Photographers made Flickr what is is - without your photos - Flickr is nothing.
at 14:08 on October 18th, 2008
dysamoria, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Bravo dysamoria, spread the word !!
at 15:05 on October 19th, 2008
dysamoria, I like this story. It's good stuff. I'm still scratching my head wandering why Flickr changed things around. If it ain't broke.... don't try to fix it!! I liked the older version better.
at 14:32 on October 23rd, 2008
Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
at 15:31 on March 24th, 2009
LOL @ how the popularity of flickr has EXPLODED since this
at 07:39 on March 28th, 2009
Thank you to EVERYONE who has posted comments about flickr here. i greatly appreciate your participation in sharing the sentiment about flickr by its users!
The image above by itslefty is excellent and it is exactly the kind of thing that "NEW flickr" will "censr" because it is politically minded, questions the media authority (why would Yahoo accept that kind of thing, hm?) and has... a female's nipple. Yes, that's conservative paranoid sexually adolescent childishness for you (flickr and those bothered by women's nipples... another thing i cannot stand about my own country).
Best wishes to you all and i hope you either get satisfaction from flickr (i doubt, personally) or move on to bigger and better things. i haven't had an account there in about a year or more, now and i wont be going back. It's a shame because i love a lot of the real people there.