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You imply Flickr's gotten no love from Yahoo!, but that's not true at all. Just last year they completely revemped one of the most important pages on their site

by timdorr 15y ago

You imply Flickr's gotten no love from Yahoo!, but that's not true at all. Just last year they completely revemped one of the most important pages on their site: The photo page - http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/06/23/a-new-photo-experience-your-photos-happier/ http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/06/23/a-new-photo-experience-... And they've made lots of improvements all over the site over the years. Flickr is one of the remaining products at Yahoo! that's gotten any serious love lately.

mncaudill 15y ago
Indeed. A lot of hard work went into the photo page redesign/rebuild. It's difficult majorly overhauling a site that serves so many different needs to so many different kinds of users.
- petervandijck 15y ago
  Too bad for all that work, it just got worse. The photo view experience on Flickr is slower than any of its competitors. Slow slow sloooooow. Plus recently, some of my photos have started to break (as in broken images). It just feels like it's dead. Incremental improvements (that aren't always improvements) aren't what Flickr needs. They need some vision and balls.
  - mncaudill 15y ago
    Hi, sorry you've had some difficulties with the site. We've made performance a big focus on the photo page but there's other sections of the site we're still trying to make faster. Regarding the broken images, we should be all clear on that (we recently brought up a new image cluster), so if you're still seeing that, let me know. I'm caudill @ yahoo-inc.com.
michaelpinto 15y ago
I apologize if you read that as a diss of Yahoo! — although compare the investment of Yahoo! in Flickr to say the investment of Apple into the iPod (which grew into the iPhone then the iPad). Or thing about the rate that Facebook has evolved in terms of adding feature sets over the last few years.

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You imply Flickr's gotten no love from Yahoo!, but that's not true at all. Just last year they completely revemped one of the most important pages on their site

by timdorr 15y ago

mncaudill 15y ago
Indeed. A lot of hard work went into the photo page redesign/rebuild. It's difficult majorly overhauling a site that serves so many different needs to so many different kinds of users.
- petervandijck 15y ago
  Too bad for all that work, it just got worse. The photo view experience on Flickr is slower than any of its competitors. Slow slow sloooooow. Plus recently, some of my photos have started to break (as in broken images). It just feels like it's dead. Incremental improvements (that aren't always improvements) aren't what Flickr needs. They need some vision and balls.
  - mncaudill 15y ago
    Hi, sorry you've had some difficulties with the site. We've made performance a big focus on the photo page but there's other sections of the site we're still trying to make faster. Regarding the broken images, we should be all clear on that (we recently brought up a new image cluster), so if you're still seeing that, let me know. I'm caudill @ yahoo-inc.com.
michaelpinto 15y ago
I apologize if you read that as a diss of Yahoo! — although compare the investment of Yahoo! in Flickr to say the investment of Apple into the iPod (which grew into the iPhone then the iPad). Or thing about the rate that Facebook has evolved in terms of adding feature sets over the last few years.