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:

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.