Why flickr is bad

What I have noticed, is that Flickr runs much better after the migration. The new servers are much much faster.

Now in such a huge process some problems are inevitable but they're minor. I, like many others who have commented below, have not experienced any serious issues with my Flickr account as a result of the transition away from the Yahoo platform. I would say that the problems stated in the article are the exception and not the norm and, in my perspective, don't feel that this story meets the standard of reporting I've come to expect from DP Review in terms of balance and objectivity.

Geo-taging very unreliable, quite often have a problem with uploading my photos. Pro since Stop badmouthing Flickr because you need some news. It's harmful. Flickr is by far the best platform for subject based photo sharing.

I have had no problems with Flickr. The complaints here appear to be from non-users and whiners! Sorry, but that is the truth. No problems either, aside from the lengthier outage. If anything, the pageview count appears to be more in line with what I would expect.

Before I was getting some huge counts that didn't make sense. But hey, don't read for comprehension and just run around in your gerbil ball world. Thanks to DPReview for a little pro-consumer action push on this. I try not to live in the "if it didn't happen to me, it didn't happen" bubble, but, being in the tech support industry myself, I must say, from looking at the outstanding lists of complaints that you could probably break that down into a few categories I think issues might even spawn out to being related to who your ISP is and where you are.

A tough nut to crack coming across the entire planet. Personally, thinking about the size of the data involved and the complexity of the features moved, I'm surprised it went as smooth as it did. BrightTiger: So anecdotal evidence is valid only if it supports your view? I'm sorry your UX has been rotten.

Mine has not. I work as a long time software engineer, including customer support systems and commercial web sites. The fixes and list of outstanding bugs clearly demonstrate their are issues. Again, just because a set of problems do not affect some or many does not mean there's no real effect on a lot of users.

And if you are one of them and it's crippling your business for days and weeks, you'd be angry as hell as well. Step into others shoes. No idea why people have to unnecessarily defend a company - they can do that themselves. Tying your egos and image to others - people or companies - isn't a good idea. It is what it is. BrightTiger; While I see your point, and I thought my preface to my statement made it clear how I felt. If my business hinged on up-time, I'd be hosted at HighVelocity or similar place that has redundant servers spread across the country, on my own hosted server space, written in a stable web app that I was more comfortable with.

I am not defending Flickr, I guess I am just trying to defend common sense in a world where we have come to expect a whole lot, for very little.

Left Flickr around and never looked back. In case there are transition issues as described, Flickr should be free without charge for members IMO. But again, I am out of this game since a long time now and don't intend ever to go back. I paid to upgrade to Pro but cannot login for a long time.

Flickr simply generate an automated reply. I have been wondering if I can have my subscription fee back. Flickr support was totally unresponsive to my issues and performance is still very haphazard for me. See how easy it is to generate content by selectively trawling through website comments and basing your story on the views of the angriest crackpots, even if those views have no bearing on reality.

I had some problems with logging in but they were quickly and helpfully resolved by the excellent Flickr support team. Since then I haven't seen any problems. All functionality I require can be achieved in Google photos making and sharing albums, commenting on photos.

Hate to see my albums go on Flickr because they're linked to many areas on the net. But luckily they're not that important to worry about. Bye bye silly wabbit! I can barely view Flickr on my iPad. If anything loads at all! And when it does and I open a photo and go back all previews are gone and the layout is messed up.

But not loading anything is more recent. It is new. Just got the iPad model a couple of months ago. My model had the same issue. My model does exactly the same. It works perfectly fine on my iPad Air. BTW, that is with Google Chrome browser though. I am using Flickr on a regular daily basis since Not just to post and run, but also involving a decent amount of "social activity".

The new owner's claim that after migration to AWS Flickr would be "running faster than ever" has not come true to date. At least after many months of permanent breakdowns the site now is largely usable again. Cashing up users and not providing the promised service "faster and stronger than ever before" can easily be seen as rip-off. As I'm writing this, I notice that I need to shift my daily Flickr visit to some time later today:.

After the server-transfer debacle where the site was down for days, things seem to be working normally again for me. Thing is, I'm paying for it now, and I'm not really seeing any worthwhile changes for members. I've been on Flickr since This is about normal for the help forum tbh. I have had zero issues myself. You can't take a help forum that is of course full of the the minority of people who are having problems and the loudest and most whinny of them at that, and think it's representative of the average experience for the thousands that use the site.

A sobering reminder that digital images and digital records of all kinds may not be as archival as we'd so dearly love to believe, for all sorts of reasons that don't always trace back to the physical permanence of the 1's and 0's stored on a hard drive.

If the big websites with all sorts of IT experts can mess it up, can the individual photographer create a superior digital archive? I wonder. If you want something to last, won't be subject to technical glitches and "the fickle winds of morality and politics" own it in physical form yourself. DVD's, Blu-rays, hard drives, memory sticks. Works fine for me with some very small annoying issues, but nothing major since the password swap. I had issues with the login when the changeover took place.

Seems the original credentials got corrupted, so the support team reset my account to allow me to redo my login. I lost one photo, but that has mysteriously reappeared, otherwise just about everything else is running faster with no issues.

I'm on just about every day, uploading about five days a week. But on the negative side, it was not easy to find out how to get in touch with the proper people to get the login issues resolved. That took about one long long frustrating week. But once I had the right contact, the problem was resolved within hours.

Lately I needed a certification of payment of income tax from an insurance company - after a week of chasing after their customer support which in every call did not even understand what I'm speaking about I fell finally on a person who knew exactly what I need and within twenty minutes I had the desired document in my inbox This isn't Flickr any longer.

They doubled the price without a doubling of value. They tried to end support for IE 11 and that didn't go over well. They backed away from that course of action. I think SM bit off more than they can chew.

As an ex-Smugmugger Smugmug destroyed almost a decade of inbound links to my portfolio with their shoddy design update six years ago , I must admit you have described the situation beautifully. Apart from the map placement not working right for a short period, Flickr seems to be business as usual. No complaints here. Sure there has been complaining, and a bit more than usual. But as Thomas Hawk points out, the help forum has always been full of complaints.

A lot of rude and immature comments. Having said that, Flickr could sometimes be better at communicating things. For example they did before the May 24 update warn in a blog post, that they expected some features to be disabled for a month or more after the operation.

Specifically the Camera Roll, which most complaints is about today. However, I don't think many people have read that post. It has been one and half month now, and the Camera Roll is not back.

Not unexpected, considering the warning. But they could communicate an updated estimate on when it is expected to be back. Having said that, Flickr has other tools filling in most gaps from CR. Actually, I don't think I have ever used Camera Roll myself. But it is hard to learn new habits. I'll post here once we have more information. You can also check our status page for updates: status. Bad panda on stats for the past half hour. Bad Pandas here in New Zealand too. And if not a Bad Panda extrremely slow adding images to groups via organiser.

Same here in Berlin, Germany. Bad Panda here in Italy. My photostream is a disaster, half in Italian and half in English. So many Bad Pandas in Omaha Nebraska. BPs just started in NYC. Usually a phase I'm definitely getting the Panda on every other refresh. Not happy at his return Posted 12 months ago. We're having some trouble displaying this photo at the moment. Please try again. Same problem in Western Australia plus interminably slow adding images to groups.

My reply above resulted in a Bad Panda I am getting the bad panda or the message 'We're having some trouble displaying this photo at the moment.

Please try again' After retrying once, twice or more it sometimes comes right. Bad Panda are running rampant at my place in eastern Australia, it's a waste of time trying to do anything at the moment.

If it's not a Panda, I'm told there's a problem displaying a photo, or whatever I want to view, and to try again. Even when I try to post this, I get a Bad Panda. Thanks and good luck! Our team continues to work on a fix for the bad pandas affecting the site at the moment. Please keep an eye on our status page for updates on this particular incident: status. Leticia Roncero : I don't see "updates" regarding the incident since the post saying "The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented".

Is there an ETA or further progress reports? I have had problems just signing on all day At this time, flickr can not display the whole pages getting Bad Panda at almost very move, sending emails, opening pages, posting comments thank you for your help it is more then likely traffic Posted 12 months ago.

I am seeing periodic bad pandas. More to the point, response to any kind of request click on link is very slow. Makes posting to groups so tedious as to be almost impossible. Exceptionally slow and a dozen Bad Pandas. Was stable all weekend. The status page says that the incident has been resolved, but I still repeatedly get the following from Organize when adding photos to a group, also after refreshing the page: The batch was cancelled, but not before 6 of 8 items in it were affected.

Status page says "All systems operational" but not true Still "Bad Panda" continue and everything is very slow.. Leticia Roncero : Status says resolved - except it isn't. Stats pages is unusable. Really poor service.

All other pages are resultingin bad panda including forum pages. Since AM German time nearly every page results in a Panda, or an "Ooops" page, needs to be reloaded to show. This "All Systems Operational" on the status page must be a joke. Leticia Roncero : I guess the current plan is to pretend the problem is resolved and hope it becomes reality at some point?

The status page says everything is peachy. Still "Bad Panda. NOT resolved Posted 12 months ago. Bad Pandas over here too. Germany, in the early morning. Error message: The batch was cancelled. Nothing has changed.

Uploaded 1 photo via app Hope it's resolved SOON. Please try again' -- so tedious and time-consuming. That's my prerogative, But your post didn't influence me in the slightest.

Sorry to disappoint you. What have you actually contributed to this thread? Paul Anthony Moore : Let's get this straight: you are now creating a convoluted post to disguise the fact that you inserted "in " after I corrected you.

EDIT: furthermore I find your responses confusing, rather unpleasant and in fact it seems to me that this thread had better be closed , seeing staff have ALREADY addressed your concerns in a post with about the same length as yours, but containing more useful information. You can read it here: www. Paul Anthony Moore : I would recommend maybe easing back on the confrontational and aggressive tone toward others in this thread now that staff have made an appearance.

Just speaking from past examples here. Good luck. Paul Anthony Moore : Eric Willis : I think you should close ASAP , the OP is ready to get fleeced and flayed for just voicing his disppointment shared by thousands as evidenced but the recurring themes in the help forum Posted 33 months ago.

LFDV : I think you should close ASAP , the OP is ready to get fleeced and flayed for just voicing his disppointment Please bear in mind that the only comment removed from this thread so far was yours.

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This thread was closed automatically due to a lack of responses over the last month. I know Flickr is free, and I appreciate that, but I am surprised at how bad this service is. I joined in and rapidly left the service because it was so bad to use.

I thought I would return now and take advantage of a terabyte of photo hosting, but find it is just as bad to use.

In a few days of use I have found: - Photo counts in my albums are often wrong; some are correct, but usually the count is less than the number of photos in there, sometimes more. EurasiaOverland : If it's so bad, why are you here? It doesn't make sense to stay with a service that isn't working for you. It also seems like you may not fully understand how Flickr works see below. Photo counts in my albums are often wrong; some are correct, but usually the count is less than the number of photos in there, sometimes more.

Existing bug, post in this topic: www. It works for me. Have you tried these basic troubleshooting steps? Try a different web browser. Clear the cache in your current web browser. Try disabling any add-ons ad blockers, etc that you may be running in your current web browser.

Temporarily disable any anti-virus software that you may be running.