flickr giveth and flickr taketh away - new and annoying yahoo menu bar!

Any one else noticing a new Yahoo! menu bar across their flickr account?

ANNOYING!

Yeah that's what Goole does, but it doesn't make it right or good.

Dislike, I wonder what else they have planned for us?

But flickr is pretty much the only yahoo service I use.

I obviously dont like it, what do you think?

EDIT: Apparently its a test - not all users get it. But I imagine they will eventually.

I'm glad you pointed it out! It's slim & unobtrusive, and I probably wouldn't have noticed it. One of the menu choices is Yahoo Groups, so now I can get to my camera club's group page easily.

I'd been grumbling about my club's using Yahoo Groups for its online communication/photo sharing: it's hard to find (doesn't come up easily in a Google search even), & the photo display is just awful. I've been trying to move the club to Flickr because the photo display is gorgeous, and I thought perhaps it would be better to form a Flickr group. But the club wants the group email feature that Groups offers to send out notices to the members. But now that it's easy to jump from Flickr to the group page & vice versa, this is great!!!

Am I the only Flickr member that really, really likes the changes they've made?

p.s. think I'm going to like Weather on the tool bar too -- quick access to a radar. Handy for us photographers.

jtan163 said:

jtan163 wrote:

Any one else noticing a new Yahoo! menu bar across their flickr account?

ANNOYING!

Yeah that's what Goole does, but it doesn't make it right or good.

Dislike, I wonder what else they have planned for us?

But flickr is pretty much the only yahoo service I use.

I obviously dont like it, what do you think?

EDIT: Apparently its a test - not all users get it. But I imagine they will eventually.

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Annoying if anything ...I see it. Just more stuff that is useless to me.

I guess I'm different than most. When they do stuff like this, I make it a point to NOT use it or anything from Yahoo just because they do stuff like this. Flickr is the only thing I would use from them and now that the bar is up there ...if I do see something Yahoo based, I'll make it a point to go somewhere else. ...other than Flickr that is.

Unfortunately, there aren't many other, if any, photo hosting sites that offer what Flickr does.

contadorfan said:

contadorfan wrote:

Am I the only Flickr member that really, really likes the changes they've made?

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I like a number of the changes they've made.
I really like the default display on black when you view a shot.

I don't like the way some stuff is hidden away in the "..." menu, e.g. location and EXIF.

I don't like this Yahoo menu, because it messes up the aesthetic of that nice photo on black and takes more screen real estate (I/m usually on a laptop).

Since I don't use Yahoo services, I'd like not to have to waste the space.

God gave us bookmarks and browser histories the find sites we regularly use.

Don't need no steeeenkin'g yahoo menu for sites I don't use.

jtan163 said:

jtan163 wrote:

God gave us bookmarks and browser histories the find sites we regularly use.

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Yeah, but when we got new laptops with different browsers, He didn't miraculously transfer over all those bookmarks.

The Yahoo toolbar is only a quarter of an inch wide with no splashy graphics (text only). I don't find it obtrusive, though if you have no need for Yahoo services I can understand the complaints. In Chrome, it's easy to toggle to full screen (press F11) to eliminate some overhead clutter (or to view photos in true full screen).

Here's a trick.



Works perfectly for me on Chrome.

I find it pretty awful. Tacky, ugly, useless. Especially as someone who pays for flickr, I'm angry that it's there and it makes an not so great user experience even worse.

Waste of space (ya, not much, but vertical space is at a premium in this widescreen world), ugly, ruins the esthetic and useless for people who don't use other yahoo pages/sites. Honestly, I thought they might finally be going in a good direction (excepting idiot comments about no such thing as pro photographers) until they pulled this.

Jeff said:

Jeff wrote:

Here's a trick.

https://secure.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157634438561292/#reply72157634432630129

Works perfectly for me on Chrome.

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Thank you Sir!

contadorfan said:

contadorfan wrote:

contadorfan said:

jtan163 wrote:

God gave us bookmarks and browser histories the find sites we regularly use.

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Yeah, but when we got new laptops with different browsers, He didn't miraculously transfer over all those bookmarks.

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Use firefox or chrome and you can save your bookmarks online.

Use safari and the Migration Assitant will move your bookmarks for you (It may also move any local bookmarks for Chrome/Firefox).

I believe if you look hard enough you can ust find and copy your bookmarks file over too.

Use windows - you get what you pay for. Again maybe firefox and chrome can help.
You can install them just before you migrate your laptop, import the ie bookmarks - store them online.
I don't know how to get them back to ie, but that's just a good reason to use firefox or chrome and abandon ie - ironic now that it is nearly standards compliant after nearly 20 years.

Sounds like these suggestions might be a little late - maybe next time?

contadorfan said:

The Yahoo toolbar is only a quarter of an inch wide with no splashy graphics (text only). I don't find it obtrusive, though if you have no need for Yahoo services I can understand the complaints. In Chrome, it's easy to toggle to full screen (press F11) to eliminate some overhead clutter (or to view photos in true full screen).

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Yeah that's true.

I do use the chrome full screen.

Maybe ignore the rest - I'm whinging:

I just hate the fact that yahoo has just arbitrarily decided to insert ad for a service I don't use or want.

If they really want to push yahoo, then couldn't they just put a yahoo pull down menu next to the "Upload" menu- that way they don't need to steal my screen real estate and they can still make a token effort at pushing services I'll never use. And for people who do use their services, you could click and option and have it display as a menu bar instead of a pull down.

This is really no different to the obnoxious search toolbars that you used to have to install to get certain services - except that I am paying for flickr.

It's another way to jamb one more crappy service down your throat. I hate yahoo. Do they think just because that bar is sitting there I am dumb enough to click on it?

Post in another forum - Let Yahoo read your emails, or else! Yahoo is trying to do a Facebook.

Since that's the mindset, I want to get my stuff off Flickr. What's the simplest, preferably free site? I don't need a page, I never post full resolution pictures, I don't use EXIF, and I'd prefer that friends didn't have to have an account. All I need is a URL if I want to post to a forum.

I also am now using Yahoo only as spam addresses.

Picasa is out. I have a Google Nexus phone and I don't believe in putting all my eggs in one basket. Google is just as intrusive in some respects. Not being able to sign out of Play a while back when Google was pushing everyone to join + annoyed me.

I've read the reviews - most tout all the extras I'm not interested in.

I like the new Flickr the photo page is brilliant. The yahoo bar is nothing and easily removed with one key press.

Terrorism and politicians upset me but I don't stress over minor annoyances!

sdribetahi said:

sdribetahi wrote:

It's another way to jamb one more crappy service down your throat. I hate yahoo. Do they think just because that bar is sitting there I am dumb enough to click on it?

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I'm dumb enough to click on it. :-(

I've clicked it a few time when I want to view flickr groups, instead of clicking Community->groups.
I see that word and my mouse pointer zooms straight to it.
Click.
DOh!

Tony Tomlin said:

Tony Tomlin wrote:

I like the new Flickr the photo page is brilliant. The yahoo bar is nothing and easily removed with one key press.

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Which key?

If I knew about a built in option to get rid of it I'd not be annoyed.

Tony Tomlin said:

Terrorism and politicians upset me but I don't stress over minor annoyances!

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Not stressed, just annoyed.

weezy said:

Post in another forum - Let Yahoo read your emails, or else! Yahoo is trying to do a Facebook.

Since that's the mindset, I want to get my stuff off Flickr. What's the simplest, preferably free site? I don't need a page, I never post full resolution pictures, I don't use EXIF, and I'd prefer that friends didn't have to have an account. All I need is a URL if I want to post to a forum.

I also am now using Yahoo only as spam addresses.

Picasa is out. I have a Google Nexus phone and I don't believe in putting all my eggs in one basket. Google is just as intrusive in some respects. Not being able to sign out of Play a while back when Google was pushing everyone to join + annoyed me.

I've read the reviews - most tout all the extras I'm not interested in.

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Google drive. It will even show Sony raw file previews

I agree wholeheartedly!

I have stuck with Flickr through gritted teeth and much anguish and yet they continue to annoy me and make me want to leave!

I will NEVER use any other Yahoo service on principal now - they are so arrogant and annoying!

Grrrrrrrr!

jtan163 said:

jtan163 wrote:

jtan163 said:

Tony Tomlin wrote:

I like the new Flickr the photo page is brilliant. The yahoo bar is nothing and easily removed with one key press.

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Which key?

If I knew about a built in option to get rid of it I'd not be annoyed.

jtan163 said:

Terrorism and politicians upset me but I don't stress over minor annoyances!

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Not stressed, just annoyed.

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I was referring to F11 but now I see that the bar is still there but it takes so little real estate I didn't even notice.
Think I'll go back to Flickr and enjoy some photographs.

For those using Firefox rather than Chrome, the add-on "Stylish" will work as well:

Maybe I'm the only one, but those bars drive me nuts, not only because they take up vertical screen real estate, but if I'm reading an article and press "page down" to continue reading, part of the "next page" gets hidden under the stupid bar. Drives me crazy, and haven't found a solution yet...

(I know, first world problems…)