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Last week, the new Flickr was born. First, the good news: Every free account holder gets one terabyte of storage. That is an insane, historic, vast amount of space. That's enough room for about 600,000 typical photos, enough to last you the next couple of birthday parties, at least.
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Much of it is the usual "Who moved my cheese?" wailing that accompanies the redesign of anything -- software, hardware, magazines, whatever. Many people, especially photographers, simply don't like change ("it's just too different,mulberry sale," one typical commenter wrote).
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For instance, some bugs and clumsinesses remain. Yahoo has indicated that it's listening to the complaints and will address them.
Vertically oriented photos don't fare as well in the new tiled layout. They're shrunken to match the height of the horizontal shots. (Of course, you can always click any photo to see it at a fuller size.)
There's something weird going on with the "page numbers" that still appear at the bottom of heavily populated batches of photos. First, it takes a lot of scrolling to reach that navigational control; second, they don't actually correspond to Web pages. One tall scrolling page of photos might be called page 15; the next one is called 17. (Yahoo says it will fix that shortly.)
Learning your way around is no picnic either. Some of the organization screens are cramped and clumsy. After 30 minutes of rooting around,mulberry factory shop bicester, I never did figure out how you can delete an album (what Flickr calls a set) and all its photos.
The most legitimate complaint, though, is that Flickr's overall focus has changed. The redesign seems to tilt the site toward a mass market, and that really infuriates serious photographers. Exhibit A: The metadata for a photo -- the photographic specs like shutter speed and aperture -- no longer appear automatically. Now, you have to click a photo,mulberry factory shop shepton mallet, scroll down and click "Additional info (show more)" to see it.
The whole point of making Flickr easier to use and more attractive, and the entire purpose of the new one-terabyte locker, is to attract a far wider audience -- because the new business plan is to make money from advertisers instead of subscription fees. But is "easier, lovelier, more generous" really a bad thing?
With due respect to the crowd missing its cheese, the new Flickr is, overall, a tremendous improvement. It really is a much better service. The new, fluid,mulberry handbags sale, infinite-scroll display is far more graceful and efficient than the old Flickr "one click per photo" model.
David Pogue is the New York Times tech columnist. He can be reached at davidpogue.com or @Pogue on Twitter. See full columns at fresnobee.com/pogue,cheap mulberry bags outlet.
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