- Flickr's been fabulous - Computerworld

Flickr Photo service was first launched in 2004 and was quickly snapped up by Yahoo.

Since then the service has grown steadily and has become the preferred site for photo enthusiasts and professional photographers.

Now Flickr received a makeover, complete with new look and updated offerings to the delight of the tens of millions of new and old users of the free service.

photos in focus

The first thing to notice the new Flickr is that the presentation has been given a real boost. Text and air has had to give way to the images, which it is easy to notice at logon.

The first thing you will see when you log on the website after the upgrade is current with the latest images from contacts and friends on the service, including groups you are a member.

website Flickr has become the gateway to the activity, and here you get electricity from friends and information on activity of your own photos as comments and views. In addition, there are new opportunities to present themselves and customize their own homepage with cover photo and profile photo in high resolution.

It also added the option to upload short videos, up to 3 minutes of video in 1080p HD format.

A terabyte

Many were excited that a long time ago when I gave their email users a full gigabyte of storage. A lot has happened since then, and storage is no longer as expensive as it once was.

NEW FLICKR: Picture Service has launched a new design. Some are happy, others think the old layout was better. Here is the new one.

Flickr, for example, now provides all users with a clear-terabyte of storage – enough that you can upload a new image in full resolution every hour for 40 years, and still have room to spare.

Among other things, this means that there are no longer restrictions on file size, format or resolution. You can upload images up to 200MB of video and up to 1GB, and up-and downloading the images in full size.

– Flickr’s been fabulous

Photographer and your head Eirik Helleland Urke has been on Flickr since 2006, almost since before the service began to take off in earnest.

He is generally happy with the new changes, and believes the best so far is the new interface and the place of the images.

– Flickr’s been fabulous, he said in a message on Twitter.

Certainly he believes there is still a way to go when it comes to web version for mobile, but apps for iOS and Android has improved, he said.

PICTURE SETS ON NEW FLICKR: Photographer Eric Helland Urke its image viewed new Flickr has much mindrte space for air between the images, but provides higher resolution on the front. Screenshot: Kenneth Christensen

Urke, which is pro-member, albeit a bit unsure if it is still worth paying for the service.

advantage of pro was the infinite storage. Now there’s a terabyte of free version – effectively infinite. He believes the free version after changes to meet the needs, but it’s a bit early to say yet.

– I am the pro-membership, and it’s a little unclear what is the advantage of being pro now. I think many people will stop being pro-members of the big one got the pro you get the now free, he said.

Proversjonen, costing just under 300 million a year, does not stand anymore so terribly from the free version and with the hefty increase in storage space. You do not have admittedly ad.

users murmur

Not all users, especially pro-users, sharing enthusiasm.

Flickr user omahajim, for example, writes that he is impressed with the new changes. He believes the new service are both fancy and confusing as the old design was perfect and worked as it should.

OLD FLICKR: Flickr How so before the last update. Multiple users think this layout is better and clearer than the new one.

– Give us back our old Flickr, he writes in a post on the forum using the service.

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Another common complaint, as it appears in the official forum thread for feedback on the new changes is that the photos are too big on the front, and the layout appears to be chaotic.

Brandon Bannerman, with user Catsy [CC] on flickr, writing for example that the new design makes the pages have become very heavy and slow to load, and that there has been too much scrolling, as the pictures on the front and the user’s home has increased.

– Please, please, do about this awful design. Please enter Bannerman.

– The old site was straight forward and mostly text-based, and it did its job, allowing me to quickly see new activity.

It fails the new layout, he said.

What do you think about the new Flickr? Feel free to leave a comment.