Steven Walling, 23/05/2013 19:48:
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@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