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Now if only they'd start serving images larger than 800x600! You don't even have the option to laboriously click through twice to see a larger version (as with

by blasdel 17y ago

Now if only they'd start serving images larger than 800x600! You don't even have the option to laboriously click through twice to see a larger version (as with Flickr) -- I think they don't even store any larger sizes as a way to avoid boiling the ocean of storage. At least the default display size is larger than Flickr's absurd 500px, and it's much faster and nicer to browse quickly. Flickr is fucking abysmal for actually looking at photos, and for no good reason. Everyone just has to use greasemonkey scripts to get a decent view.

ryanwaggoner 17y ago
Flickr is fucking abysmal for actually looking at photos, and for no good reason. How about bandwidth?
- blasdel 17y ago
  They have the fullscreen Flash slideshow view that uses higher-res photos, and defaults to downloading the next one every 3s. It used to be ridiculously awful: super slow, never preloading images, and if you wanted to see the title or description it would shrink the image down to 300px. Now they've improved it to be merely mediocre, but it still doesn't preload more than the next image, and you have to click through to the standard photo page to see anything else. I think they're just obstinate -- the standard pages haven't really changed since maybe 2004. Besides, Flickr was never about looking at images -- it was originally a MMUD, and it still basically is -- there was a moment of truth back in ~2005 when the site was invaded by users from the U.A.E. mass-spamming groups and pools in a huge clusterfuck, and the site encouraged that rather than reject them. Meanwhile you would get your account hell-banned (NIPSAed) if you posted illustrations or screenshots, as if you were posting porn. This practice only really stopped a few years ago, not long before they started hosting short videos.
  - ryanwaggoner 17y ago
    Now they've improved it to be merely mediocre, but it still doesn't preload more than the next image, and you have to click through to the standard photo page to see anything else. Again, if they're optimizing for bandwidth... I'm guessing that the standard photo pages and photostream pages account for 99% of their usage. It also sounds like you have more of a philosophical beef with them than anything else.

by blasdel 17y ago

ryanwaggoner 17y ago

Flickr is fucking abysmal for actually looking at photos, and for no good reason. How about bandwidth?

blasdel 17y ago
They have the fullscreen Flash slideshow view that uses higher-res photos, and defaults to downloading the next one every 3s. It used to be ridiculously awful: super slow, never preloading images, and if you wanted to see the title or description it would shrink the image down to 300px. Now they've improved it to be merely mediocre, but it still doesn't preload more than the next image, and you have to click through to the standard photo page to see anything else. I think they're just obstinate -- the standard pages haven't really changed since maybe 2004. Besides, Flickr was never about looking at images -- it was originally a MMUD, and it still basically is -- there was a moment of truth back in ~2005 when the site was invaded by users from the U.A.E. mass-spamming groups and pools in a huge clusterfuck, and the site encouraged that rather than reject them. Meanwhile you would get your account hell-banned (NIPSAed) if you posted illustrations or screenshots, as if you were posting porn. This practice only really stopped a few years ago, not long before they started hosting short videos.
- ryanwaggoner 17y ago
  Now they've improved it to be merely mediocre, but it still doesn't preload more than the next image, and you have to click through to the standard photo page to see anything else. Again, if they're optimizing for bandwidth... I'm guessing that the standard photo pages and photostream pages account for 99% of their usage. It also sounds like you have more of a philosophical beef with them than anything else.