Not terribly impressed with the flickr redesign
Flickr got a big redesign this week. Some of the visual tweaks are good, but overall, my feeling is “really? that’s it?”.
The thumbnails are bigger, and there are more per page by default. Brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that?
I don’t understand why the sets moved from the left to the right, but there’s still a whole bunch of wasted white space on the page.
The new organizational structure doesn’t really seem to make navigating the site much easier, except that the archive page is easier to find. That’s good.
The new Organizr is AJAX instead of Flash, and it doesn’t work in Opera. Ditto for basically all of the other new dynamic elements on the page. Thanks for that, I guess. Everyone else seems to be able to make AJAX pages that work fine in Opera. Why can’t you?
Where’s the large version slideshow? Where’s the setting to view all pictures from your contacts? Where’s the ability to navigate your contacts’ pictures as if they were a set or a group?
Flickr’s still great, of course, but I’m thoroughly underwhelmed by the changes.
Tags: flickr, redesign, underwhelmed
