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Some clever engineering hacks that unfortunately don't solve the fundamental problems with new flickr. - The lazy loading/infinite scroll is still too slow. If
by blehn 13y ago
Some clever engineering hacks that unfortunately don't solve the fundamental problems with new flickr.
- The lazy loading/infinite scroll is still too slow. If I'm scanning through 100s or 1000s of photos, it takes way too long to find what I'm looking for. How about some alternate views? e.g., smaller thumbnails, normal pagination, non-"justified". Also, rather than wait for the browser to tell you what dimensions each and every image should be, why not just pull them at the same y dimensions and let the browser do the resizing?
- when I click a photo in the photo gallery to load the full view (which is also painfully slow), then hit the back button, my place in the gallery is always lost. This is beyond annoying.
These two pitfalls alone make flickr unusable. Too bad since the 1TB of free storage is pretty awesome. I'll take speed over