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Weirdness creeping in at f****r
Yesterday some weirdo with a bunch of porny pics on his photostream faved this photo of mine on flickr. (Don't worry, it's safe to click the image below as I've now brought the pic over here!)

Why? And how did he even come to find it? It was posted back in Feb 2012 and buried on p.47 of my photostream (not that there's any real concept of paging with the new scroll of death).
Of course, I immediately blocked him but what I noticed was that he'd just joined!! If this is the kind of new member the biggr and bettr flickr is going to attract I'm glad I'm getting out of there.
But the danger is that with things disappearing beneath a never ending deluge on the home page and so many people using various work-arounds to get directly to a sane view of their photostream, activity like this could easily be missed. If I hadn't happened to click my homepage when I did the fave note would have been buried beneath an influx of incoming rubbish (well, not all rubbish, some of my contacts new uploads are interesting but I'd just rather they didn't appear so big!)
so, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN is my warning. But then I'm preaching to the converted because anyone who's reading this already has!

4 comments

Tetramesh said:

Flickr used to have a sensible and user friendly front page where you could instantly see recent activity, check stats and go to recent group discussions. Now we're bombarded with photos and banners of all sizes.
11 years ago

Jen Pedler said:

"used to..." ho hum, time to move on...
11 years ago

Jen Pedler said:

Let's hope we bring with us all the things that were once good about flickr and none of the bad. I don't want this to become some sort of flickr replacement. I like it how it is at the moment!
11 years ago

Jen Pedler said:

I hope it won't change too much. I like it the way it is!
11 years ago