Flickr

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You have to wonder, why has Yahoo has allowed Flickr to fester and entropy?

• There has been very little change since Yahoo took over except for a few token changes in the format - something which many felt made the photo pages less ergonomic anyway.

• Investing in "pro" status is essentially pointless now that so much memory is on offer for free.

• "Camera roll" mode appears to have been hastily rolled out as an additional feature, but remains in Beta to this day.
This feature is ill placed - hoisted up, as it is, in front of Photostream (the sites clear cut preview mode) in the menu.
Its true function seems to be minor and not warranting of its own prominent page space.

• "Creation" mode seems stunted and expensive. There is no way of calculating shipping, nor is there much creativity in the variety of print styles.

• There has been zero effort to nurture any sort of community on flickr. The websites groups are detached and generally squabble in small dissipating threads.

• The site is being ran as if it were an unwanted child. A nuisance to its owner that feels betrayed by its dispassionate treatment - still wearing the same clothes it was 5 years ago.

Once upon a time people said that Flickr was going to blow up and outperform Instagram, but that never happened.

Long story short: Fuck you Yahoo.