When did they change the Flickr site and why is it so stupid now?

ALL OF MY MEMORIES ARE ON THERE

You do have the original files on your computer/eternal hard drive don't you?

i literally just renewed for two years!!! wtf?!?!?!

If you get free account now, you will be refunded the difference.

yeah, i have the original files but i like having them accessible online because i am the kind of sap who likes to revisit time/place from various locations, not just home computer :(
also original files are not nearly as well organized as my sets on flickr

i just realized that i've been using this site for the better part of a decade, no wonder i'm attached to it.
ilx too, i guess, yikes

if i get a free account - i might as well just close it and start anew on 500px.com or something - since there's (I think?) limits on the number of sets and number of images in that set...

I was just concerned you didn't have them backed up. Some of the comment on flickr suggest people have been using the site to save space on their drives.
One commented "I will now be downloading all my pictures" Bit silly really.

Having them accessible wherever you are is great, I agree.

I have been using it since April 2006, one of a handful of sites I visit most days.

also, not_goodwin - any idea how i get in touch with someone at flickr to give me my money back? i'm actually furious about this and cannot find any way to contact them about this - only some bs feedback threads about bugs etc.

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Or you could do what I'm doing is keeping a free account and using the money to find an alternative.
I haven't been happy about how a lot of my pictures have been viewed from external sources which I can't access.
I was going to start looking soon, this change, has made up my mind.

I'll get the link for you, bear with me.

This is great for me, I had hundreds of photos on there for which the originals were on a HD that was stolen two years ago. I had let my Pro account expire so couldn't get back the full resolution originals, and now I can!

thank! what do you think about 500px? a photo enthusiast coworker of mine really likes it.

Anyone tried ipernity.com?

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Try the link here in the "If you would like to switch to a free account and see if you are eligible for a prorated refund, visit this page."

http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633531669359/page6/

link doesn't work.

It worked for me earlier, maybe it's erm a little busy. :/

I can't see how to get a refund... am I being incredibly stupid? It says that cancelling my subscription just means that it won't auto-renew. FFS.

they probably are pretty busy, yes - judging by their feedback page. i talked to paypal and yahoo hasn't accepted the payment yet... so maybe they'll be smart enough not to take money for something that changed three days later.

The Ad Free option needs to be clarified. Sure, I can ad-block if I go Free, but visitors to my stream won't necessarily be doing that. And if I shell out $50/year for the Ad Free option, does that extend to people surfing my private sets on a Guest Pass (e.g. events I've been commissioned to shoot)?

There's no way I want anyone who has paid me to take photos of something to be exposed to a load of ad content I have no control over when I give them access to the online contact sheet.

So I s'pose I'll continue to renew the Pro account...

Didn't even think of that. For ad free it just says "No ads in your browsing experience" so I doubt it applies to anyone else viewing your pics.

Okay, I've downgraded and they're processing my refund. It's just the 'switch to free' thing.

I will miss stats but tbh nobody ever looks at my photos so I don't really need them.

will they take notice of all the people moving to free accounts and maybe change their minds?

'From what we understand from a person close to Flickr, dropping Pro isn’t going to make much difference to the company because Pro never did very well.

“It has always been a relatively small percentage of the overall user base,”

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/20/yahoo-drops-flickr-pro-to-compete-with-facebook-still-offers-two-paid-tiers-for-ad-haters-and-power-users/

not really worth $45... i seem to have missed this, "switch to free thing"!

ooooohhh - found it!

Not sure if it's the whole changing of flickr or the turning 40 and getting (more) set in my ways is the issue here with me?

it also suffers from the same problem the gawker sites like lifehacker have recently - there's a footer with useful navigation links in it but you can never see it because it loads more images when you scroll down.

I used pro for a few years and used this site religiously but recently i let my subscription lapse, then i finally got a smart phone and instagram and all that stuff so i don't really see using this site much in the future.

Have been using the site religiously since 2005, really not sure how I could ever leave at this point. I have my photos on my drive, but the texts, comments, and sets/collections are another matter. I'm going to do a massive super-download with Bulkr to at least have some kind of archive of that in case they fuck things up more but what's really annoying me right now is how the new interface really steamrollers over the exact things I use Flickr for - text, comments, and organization. Really going for "wall of photos" here but that's not how I use the thing, I like having conversations that use other people's photos as a kind of starting point...

Agree with everything Dr.

I don't just want to see a picture, I liked to see the comments and photo info, I learnt a lot from the camera settings too.

All of that is still available, though, in the photo page where it always was.

i use this for work

can't see the titles/dates/etc

also it is forcing me to select "search your photostream" *and* "sort by recent" anew every single time fuuuuuuu

1. you used to get a little preview of text when scanning through the photo stream so you could see where the action was

2. when you click on the photo page you now have to SCROLL to see the text

3. the recent activity is buried in the home screen so you can easily miss the conversation

4. i think there was something else

it looks like shit.

The old design could've used a little less whitespace, but this is gross. It's cramped and a pain in the ass to navigate.

i liked the whitespace, miss it!
the big black box is not my steez and the profile-forward design is not to my liking either -- i was trying to figure out what it was that i didn't like, and that's it. i don't want to stand out in front of the pictures i put on there. i just want to be a little tiny square in the corner.

flickr app works but is odd - lots of swiping and, yes, lots of buffering

seems like it's crashed now.

Desktop version is still poking along, definitely not lightning-fast today. I wonder how many other people are doing as I am and taking this as a good time to run a full photostream backup....

pretty sure everyone bumrushing flickr to see how awful their photostream looks can't be doing the bandwidth any favours.

I have a Flickr account. I use it exclusively as a holding tank for the pics I post on ilx. These changes do not impress me.

doesn't anyone use a fucking computer anymore, why does everything have to be designed as a gripless infini-scrollling picture-pane

with those aggravating little scrollbars too

and a COVER PHOTO, WHY, the thing is already full of photos!!!

anyone else's videos stop loading?

i dont like how i cant see the dates photos were posted right away like i used to

FYI: The app 'Flickr Studio' for ipad/iphone can be downloaded for free today. Normally it is $5,00.

the square and small format thing seemed to be working today for groups. but they've taken the option away from 'you' and 'your contacts'

The Help forum thread for feedback on the changes is up to 17,000 replies. From skimming through, my ballpark estimate would be that 16,500 of them are negative.

The Help topic has passed 25,000 photos and only a few very minor changes have been made so far. Starting to really get bummed out by this...it really puts a damper on my long-term hobby/project of catching up on film/blogging if the text and the sets/collections are so marginalized. What's the fun in writing some rambling 1000-word post about a building eight people care about if even those eight people probably won't notice the text is there? Ugh.

Currently writing a script to download all my wife's photos from flickr and upload them to ipernity.com. They have a bulk tool already but it only works with Pro accounts and she already deactivated hers.

I'm interested in this and I bet a lot of other people are too - - - as far as I can tell the ipernity script can only do a certain number of photos at a time.

I Bulkr-downloaded all my Flickr photos so as to save all my tags and texts - don't know if it carries things like membership in a set, which is what would be REALLY great to keep. Something that could re-upload the same 14,000 pictures to ipernity with all tags/descriptions/set memberships intact would be a great insurance against Flickr doing anything more to fuck everything up.

I've got as far as downloading photos, tags, comments etc and storing it in XML, this was pretty easy so far because some kind souls already wrote flickr.py so I don't need to write anything special to use Flickr's API. I will have to write something to upload to ipernity's though. And I will be adding set membership in a minute... so if this works out (I'm not massively experienced with online APIs although I have done quite a bit with SOAP and REST at work before) I'll put it online somewhere.

Colonel, forgive me if it's mentioned already, but is Ipernity basically what Flickr was before the overhaul? Does it seems like a good alternative for the long run?