Anybody else find the new Flickr format awkward?

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun May 26, 2013 3:00 pm

What a pain their "Facebook wannabe" format is!

My complaint is probably age-related...I'm beginning to dislike change.

But if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Anybody else find it awkward?

Barb

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Mon May 27, 2013 4:03 am

You do realize you get a terabyte of strorage for free?

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon May 27, 2013 1:20 pm

Yeah, that part's obviously good.
I've had a Pro account for years.

But I can't figure out how to get the photos on here...where's the HTML/BB code stuff?

Will keep looking.

Barb

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Mon May 27, 2013 6:14 pm

I right click the pick, and it ops for zsizes, click a size and then right click again, and left click "copy URL address". Then type

(with out the slash outside of the last square bracket

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue May 28, 2013 10:47 am

Right clicking used to work.

Played with it a bit.
Go into Photostream (and forget that horrible new front page), and click the icon that looks like an arrow coming out of a white box.
That leads to the HTML / BB code page.

Sheesh...trying that:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/southslope/8048673554/" title="002 by edible_plum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8317/8048 ... 8d71_c.jpg" width="600" height="800" alt="002"></a>

OK it worked.
They hid the Actions thingy. Turns out it's now the three dots. Stoooooopid changes.
They're turning into a FB wannabe.

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Tue May 28, 2013 11:07 am

I forgot to ask what you use ( IE, chrome, Firefox etc). My method was for chrome... Glad you got it to work

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue May 28, 2013 11:30 am

Jesse,
I've got FF.

There are a lot of really unhappy posters/members over at the Flickr Help forum.

Barb

Okanagan desert-palms · Post by **Okanagan desert-palms** » Tue May 28, 2013 4:22 pm

Took me a while to notice that I could use the old format "basic uploader" Now to see if I can get up to speed like the rest of you to post pics directly on PN.

John

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed May 29, 2013 3:36 am

I hate the new format too. It was just fine before.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed May 29, 2013 11:02 am

John, you'll like the new uploader better.
I've been using it for about a year or so, and it's fast as lightning.
The basic was just too slow for me.

Michael,
Yeah, what's that old saying about "if it ain't broken...."

Discovered something that's helpful for me...from the main page (which we all hate), or from Photostream (sorry I can't remember), select EDIT in the navbar.
PRESTO up comes your photostream in a familiar format, what we're used to seeing.

Remember, too, that the 3 DOTS (icon) is where they hide ACTIONS (and isn't THAT stooooopid?)
and to SHARE your photo (embed in PN), click on the arrow coming out of the white frame/box.

That sound was my hair turning more gray...sheesh.
Or me swearing.

This new Flickr launch is akin to getting a new car, but nobody gives you the keys to it and you have to break a window to climb in.

Barb

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