Steven Walling, 23/05/2013 19:48:
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com <mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com>> wrote:
2) removed any UI path to the advanced search and to the search for
free/CC images, so that now you can find them only on the advanced
search, by knowing its URL:
http://www.flickr.com/search/__advanced/
<http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/> ;
That's not true. Advanced search is still available just below the
search box, every time you make a search. Cf.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=dogs
True. It wasn't there when I wrote my message (I found out reading some
questions on flickr groups), it seems they also fixed some other bugs.
I'm glad that wasn't a design decision.
They're probably doing this because they assume that you probably only
need advanced search if you didn't find what you wanted on regular
search. Seems like a pretty safe assumption from a UX perspetive.
Obviously that doesn't account for the use case of Commons people
hunting for photos, but that's hardly the majority of their users.
The flickr user I mentioned above was surely not a Wikimedia Commons
user. :)
Nemo