Erik Moeller, 21/05/2013 19:40:

Here's one of many overviews of Flickr's redesign:

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/121165-old-flickr-vs-new-flickr-what-s-new

Next time you feel that Wikimedia's community is particularly change
averse, take a spin through the comments here. :-)

http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633547442506/

AFAICS, they also:
1) collapsed the button that allows you to set the license of an image of yours, which is now hidden below a "more" link in the metadata section that was moved outside the screen (or did this happen before? certainly after 2010) ;
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/ ;
3) less importantly, hid under that mysterious triple-ball "ellipsis" button the option to find high resolution versions of the image, consistent with a similar regression in the interface of Google Plus compared to PicasaWeb.
I found also some bugs, at least for Linux, which make (2) worse.

So, what's the future of CC on Flickr?
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ shows only 260M CC images: there were already 220M in 2011 if I read news correctly; only 60M are free. 75 % of the times I ask a user to put an image under cc-by-sa they choose -nc-nd because "it was the first option" (and some of course "what, isn't Wikipedia non-commercial?!).
Is this the price to pay to Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook?

Will the unusable&pretty-fication help bring more people to an environment where they may meet free knowledge, or will free knowledge just be sacrificed? It's unclear to me what's going on.

Nemo

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