Ouch!! That is indeed a major shame Oli, I had not heard that. I was thinking how nice a city would look with all the corporate crap replaced by amazing street art, but now you've gone and crushed my utopian dream. Ah well, one can still hope. I would love to see some legislation to at least limit the presence of ads in central city cores/historic neighbourhoods. People probably don't realise how [more] lovely already great places (like Montreal) could be with just a bit less of the billboarding and signage everywhere. I would love to at least see it limited to "local" businesses only, when present.
Is anyone else having problems with missing photos on Flickr? Just noticed a pic I posted here had a broken link. Opened up my account and a good number of my pics are now missing (my profile pic too). WTF??? Edit: after posting in a thread on the Flickr community forum (someone else had the same problem), the issue seems to be resolved... for now
It hasn't happened to me yet, but i've heard of it happening to other people. Also, people who complained their whole account was deleted without warning. I do know that the Flickr staff don't give a shit about the constant problems they have with the site . . . . bugs and glitches seem to be the norm with Flickr.
Fucking hell why can't sites just leave well enough alone? So added to my list of annoying sites that hate my browser (and claim unsupported when it was working minutes before) is now Flickr. So I can't even surf btw photos (mine or anyone else's) without getting an annoying pop up every time I click on a new photo that brings me to a page saying update to Chrome because my browser is unsupported! Fuck off! I will NEVER update to crappy Chrome. Google has to stop this fucking campaign. The world hates your browser- at least everyone I know does. Same thing with Atlantic this morning (although not upset because all they have are inane stupid millennial articles anymore written by kids who can't write). Lame mobile layout. I'm not switching from Snow Leopard ever unless Apple makes a browser just like it. I'll go down with the ship.
^^ Honestly Lixx, I'm surprised you've been able to use Flickr up to this point. I still cannot use it at all on my desktop (haven't been able to since before joining this site) Chrome, Safari, Firefox... doesn't matter. It just will not work... and I can't help but think Snow Leopard is to blame. Now PayPal is starting to load in the non-functional barebones layout (see below) that Yahoo sites look like on my mac and Flickr used to (before now). Probably only a matter of time before that won't work anymore either... Really don't want to upgrade to Mavericks (and go through the whole iTunes downgrade bit again), but this shit is getting ridiculous. *Images hosted by Photobucket (at least that one hasn't crapped out...yet)
Well I mainly use it to share with friends and family, but also as a photo dump to post pics here. Since I really don't do that much anymore and privatized my toy photos (which I will never make public again) and given the aggressive nature of Flickr being in cohoots with Google/Apple trying to force browser upgrade via user agent detection under the lamest excuse ever- your browser is not supported (really it was 5 minutes ago?)- I'm just making the whole damn thing private. So no more photo traffic from me will come Flickr's way. 10 years on that shit and ever since that (insert derogatory term here) Marissa Mayer took over she's ruined the site trying to compete with instagram. Flickr has always been about photography and not pics of frat kids being wasted. Of course all the Flickr troll apologists are out in full force in the thread for people outraged (like myself): https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us ... 0265/page4 Not to be super tinfoil hat guy but people have to wake up to the war of scheduled obsolescence going on with technology/internet. Forcing people to the latest and greatest, when reality is it's a lot of hot air. People like myself (and you) are often characterized as old timers not up with the new technology etc. It's completely untrue. Making every site on the planet look like one giant endless scroll and as mobile as possible does not always make it better. Often is looks like a bunch of white space with huge pics and takes forever to find things. See the new Atlantic site layout for proof. But you see this is what the bean counters want. You to have an incredibly frustrating experience looking for things increasing your time spent on the site and thus being able to direct as much advertising your way. I stick with snow Leopard because I've used other more recent OS X versions and they suck. Don't even get me started on iOS. Has not been even usable since 6. I could easily upgrade my iMac if I wanted to. It's only 4 years old and I have 8GB RAM. I just choose not to have a bunch of bloatware and loss of functionality. The whole your browser is not supported is a joke. It's supported and works fine but Google would rather get more market share and force you to their browser- so insert user agent detection and make a non new browser user have an awful experience until they do.
Also did everyone notice the not so subtle change on the internet this past week? Lots of sites suddenly changed seemingly overnight to a more mobile endless scrolling layout? I hate it so I'm rather annoyed, but upon doing some investigating apparently Google changed their algorithm to FAVOR MOBILE sites. Sites that did not have a mobile version are being ranked in searches much lower so will see a decrease in traffic. Well this explains a lot. Here are some links: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-m ... don-2015-4 And the Browser War continues with that whole "unsupported browser" nonsense via user agent detection (basically it's a myth but I already knew that): http://www.maxthon.com/blog/the-browser ... rade-ruse/ I wish I could bottle the internet how it was before mobile/mobile apps came about - lose google and yahoo forever- have complete neutrality and high speed and jettison myself off how the internet is now completely. Internet 2 here I come.
That is some interesting stuff Chris, though hardly any of it is suprising either. It is really true in this age that (1) these companies treat the general user as being either a moron or a 'millenial' target, and equally (2) take their customer/user base completely for granted. And basically, they are able to do so with such a shoddy business model, because people essentially lack choice the more powerful individual companies get (while it may not be a monopoly per se, having two or three companies - see the telecom sector in Canada as a principal example - run everything amounts to the same thing), while also being generally uniformed. This is further hampered in most situations by direct culpability on the part of government, providing them the means, and finanical incentive, to take advantage of their position and market share. Private firm lobbying is stronger than it has ever been, and we are all losing because of it. I think Americans really need to take a revisting look at where the system has led them and the country (Canada too of course, I only single out the US as being the most powerful and home to a majority of these corporations. As an unrelated side note, since you posted that linked article from Maxthon, is anyone out there using it? I could definitely make do with a new browser, particularly one from the family of none of the above. Some of the feature look good, despite that I only really use one device to access the internet, being a fossil who doesn't have a cell phone or tablet. What I am most interested in, if anyone can shed light on, is the ability to search and use websites independent of browsing location. Natually, there are services like VPNs and forwarding for IP masking, but it is not for anonymity or untowards activities I want it, but simply to be able to access content [see watching hockey games!] without regional restrictions. WHY in anyone's mind such things would exist in the global world of the internet is beyond logic. Such controls are completely antiquated and against growing your product. I don't care about updating websites with mobile versions, tweets, hashtags, blogs, etc. - just give me the regular service in an accessible fashion, thank you.
I just don't get web developers insistence on making everything a mobile. No one wants to do work anymore. I don't know a soul that actually likes mobile websites. I got an ipad as an xmas gift years ago but when given the choice I'd always rather sit at my desk and surf the web. I bring it to school but still load desktop sites whenever possible. Yet companies and developers are making that harder and harder. What's the point of being able to use your fingers to zoom in on text when sites won't allow it? That infuriates me. I don't want to have to set the text bigger every time depending on site. Unless you're a 20 something asshead with the attention span of a gnat who basically is never in one place twice ever why the fuck would you want to endure a mobile site? They suck. Endless scroll with locked in font size is the worst. Developers are just so lazy and Google enables them. I can't wait till millennials have to endure readers in their 40's. I had perfect vision till about 2 years ago but going to school and having to read all the time, plus general age makes me use 1.5+ readers which isn't all that bad but still...See how you feel about mobile sites then 20 something person. It's not just small text though. Mobile sites generally just suck, and don't even get me started again on user agent detection. It's all part of the plan to force you into mobile hell.
Looks like millions of users cant even upload 1 photo at the moment . . . as well as a ton of other errors. Every unwanted 'upgrade' to Flickr just makes things worse not better. I think this is the same for standard and mobile devices. To echo that annoying guy on the show 'Down the Line' - "Why do they have to keep mucking about with stuff?".
I wasn't a fan of the new Flickr. But I was getting use to it. And then they go and make it worst. This is why I kind of stopped uploading pictures since March or rarely signing in to my account.
I hate the new redesign of Flickr as well but I'm not having any issues uploading pics from the app on my phone.
^^ Its not affecting everyone . . . just most people. I'm stunned by the intrusive auto-tagging now . . . go check your photos. There are incorrect and laughable tags added to everyone's recent photos. What an arrogant move . . . i think this has incensed people more than any other change.
Gee, that worked well - just checked the first few, but I've had "photo border" added to the tags on this one: They also seem to have slapped "surreal" on everything they couldn't classify otherwise... Great job, flickr!
^^ Yep, pathetic. Its all about the $$$. More tags = more hits . . . . . more hits = more $$$ for Flickr. I suppose the more hits from Google etc, the more they can charge for advertising. Its not a community its a bunch of suits making money from our photos. I wouldn't care if they would just leave the site alone for 5 minutes. The next step will be Flickr claim ownership of everything posted on their site.
I noticed that but had not look to much into it, now I did and my last upload had surealist as a tag What I meant when I mentioned that it was working AoK on my phone is that I suspect they are pushing the use of Flickr toward mobil instead of the camera/computer combo, leaving older users behind ...
^^ Yeah man, exactly. They dont care. Like i say, i wouldn't give two shits if they would just leave the site alone for reasonable periods of time. But they just cant help themselves. Greed will do that to people. I resent the way they really push the whole touchy-feely 'community' angle, but completely ignore all the requests from said 'community'.
What the hell has Flickr become! I hadn't posted in a while but the whole ordeal was riddled with problems, from uploads timing out, to not being able to find certain pics. And now that you brought up the tagging thing, photos getting tagged with random crap like "sport". The whole layout is different than last time which was only a few months ago. Fucking hate it now, just the same way i hate yahoo mail's layout. Gah!
How exactly are these new auto-tags (the paler ones below mine) supposed to help anything? It really is laughable.
You are totally right and this fucking pisses me off! I know folks can take really nice photos with camera phones, but the photo quality usually doesn't compare to an SLR or an advanced point-and-shoot IMHO. And I want to keep learning about real photography and have an outlet to post my pics easily and publicly. I hate feeling like I am getting pushed into using another goddamn phone app.
I had to open Firefox just to see my own photos and check about that tag thing. LMAO. I've escaped much of Flickr's auto tagging I guess because after arguing with staff and people who are flickr loyalists in the help forum I just made everything private and not searchable. Only one I noticed was indoor. Yeah good luck getting to my pics with that. Flickr is fucking lame as hell and I'll never use it again. The corporate bean counters don't give a flying fuck about photographers and how the site originally was laid out. They just want another instagram and while they're at it force people to upgrade browsers. Fuck them on both accounts... NOW is there was a smart person out there they would set up a site like the old Flickr. The would get traffic instantly.
I'm telling you, on EVERYTHING. A photo of a SkullOrm had "people" slapped on it. My favorites so far though: Maybe I should add "vagina".
