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Originally Posted by Fango
My two thoughts:
1. The change was made to keep web designers employed. Everybody hates whenever a major website undergoes a design change, and yet, basically every major website other than Google keeps changing their design. As far as I can tell, this is just to keep "web design" a viable career option. Otherwise, every website would only be built/designed once.
2. Yes, the changes are annoying, but not exactly major. Everything still works the same and downloads as it should (i.e. the frontend has changed, but the backend is basically the same). That's just speaking from the viewing side. I don't know if there's been any changes to the uploading side.
Fango
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regarding 1: yes, how true.....if I were 20 something again, I would probably understand even better...
regarding 2: If, as many people worry, Flickr is being pressured to become more like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc, it may also be pressured to adopt a stricter policy towards adult pics. With more corporate involvement in policy etc, I fear this might happen. Right now, it looks like Flickr is adopting a more "wow, look at the cool new pic I just took" mentality vs the older "welcome to my photo galleries" type mentality. I just went to the new Flickr homepage, and by chance a very large, naked pic from BtoB was splashed across the top. Very prominent. it just happened to have been the most recent upload. But I wonder if they will continue to allow this now, because of the new site design and attempt to appeal to a younger demographic. I fear that whatever policy Facebook, twitter, etc has regarding adult content will be adopted now by Flickr. Thats what will happen if you are catering now to 14yo's.
Just my opinion....
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