Le 2013-05-23 18:13, Fabrice Florin a écrit :
Yes, it looks like Flickr went too far with this update, judging from the community uproar -- and my own impressions.
They seem to be targeting consumers over 'prosumers' -- and are leaving long-time 'Pro' users like me in the dust.
Probably we may say that both profiles exists. And I don't mean that one person equals one profile, sometime you just to sit down and watch, and sometime you want to feel more actively involved. So maybe it may be interesting to think about two interfaces for this two use case. Of course, at least to my mind, our wiki movement is about promoting proactivity, and so an interface which induce such a behaviour must IMHO stay our primary goal. We may also let other projects/websites create more passive interfaces reusing commons, thus said making it within Wikimedia would allow us to design it as "first step to a more proactive behaviour".
Now that may all be just a bad idea based on good intents. Zhat do you think? Do you know real experiment feedbacks on this topic?
(I have over 20k images on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/ [3] ).
I personally don't mind the new photo-centric UI, which has some real benefits, but I miss some key features like the set overview page, which gave us plenty of room to feature a text description (I used it all the time to write a short report on that set's content -- and to link to other sets or related pages). And I too hate that people can no longer download my photos at any size they want, as Nemo points out below.
That's disappointing, as features like these were an important reason for sticking with Flickr as a publishing tool. Now that it's more like Facebook or Instagram, I have less of an incentive to use it for casual photo-sharing. The main thing that's keeping me there now is the ability to upload images at a high resolution, its suite of organizing tools -- and the fact that so much of my work is already on Flickr.
Once we modernize our multimedia platform and features, we can provide a viable alternative to folks like me, who want more than just a simple photo sharing site -- and want to contribute to our cause.
To be continued,
Fabrice
On May 23, 2013, at 8:20 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Erik Moeller, 21/05/2013 19:40:
Here's one of many overviews of Flickr's redesign:
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