All-new Flickr comes with free terabyte and ads, update for Android app

I like much better! Something new! Before was to old style!

I like it, looks way better than before on my 27" Dell u2713 screen.

For those who miss old style Flickr there is a petition going around:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/change-flickr-back?source=s.icn.em.cp&r_by=7929462

PETITION STATEMENT
We ask you to please change Flickr back to its old style. The new style is incredibly poorly done and we had no chance to opt out or even pick between the new and old style.
Petition Background
Recently Flickr did a remodel of the site and it was VERY poorly done. I am hoping to get at least 10,000 signatures to turn into Marissa Mayer. Please share this with all your friends!

Can you explain what is "more photocentric" about squeezing as many photos as possible onto a page by minimizing the space between them? Without any form of separation between different collections/sets of photos which are often very different in their look? Same for introducing an obligatory cover photo which may or may not fit in with my other photos on display?
I'm also not exactly happy about some of the other changes, for example, I find the page that now appears upon logging in both awkward to look at and to navigate.
Regarding the new accounts / pricing policy I can at least comprehend why they do it, but my guess is that for most users it's no improvement to have 1TB for free at the price of ads, or having to pay 49.99 for ad-freedom.
Some of the other issues people are complaining about I can excuse as hiccups related to launching a new system (though I do wonder whether they couldn't have been avoided).

Bad, bad Panda!

A girl with a false panda (image)

- This is the new error message in flickr... I've seen twice, today.

Now I have an excuse to cancel all things Yahoo. I only stayed in because of flickr, and now flickr is no longer worth it to me.

Cancelled my pro account earlier this year and now closed down my free account. Flickr used to be a great community but sadly I no longer feel the same.

I just bought a pro account and now they are scrapping it. Isn't the Ad Free one twice the price?

Ho hum.... and I was just sold to Sky by O2 as a broadband customer as well.

Perhaps I should self host my photos

Bye-bye Flickr. It used to be a vehicle for serious photographers to share their images with one another. Apparently Flickr is going after the cameraphone crowd with its new look and layout. Look on the "help" pages at Flickr ( http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633547442506/ ), at last count it was almost 18,000 complaints posted on one string--there are quite a few parallel strings running about the changes. If they don't do something fast to recapture its traditional market, it's going to go the way of all things Yahoo. Well, I've been meaning to just throw up my own photo website anyhow; now seems the time. . .

I still like Pbase. Old and clunky, Once in a great while breaks down...but the user interface is very easy to customize, you get 800mb a year (not like Flickr but who has 1TB of good photos?), the navigation is easy, the display qualities good for 24.95 and NO adds. I'm just using this to illustrate a point, since there are many equally good photo services available Zenfolio, Smugmug etc. etc....maybe some better...and many not mentioned. From what I've seen on the new Flickr, it's flashy etc. It all seems like Flickriver now sort of to me, endless. Is it going to hurt the groups and communities that have grown up around them? Has Flickr shot itself in the foot?

Unmitigated disaster

Assuming your setup can handle unending streams of photos, I think it's unfortunate, but workable. I detect an underlying philosophy. Photos are plentiful and cheap/free so why not plaster the page with as many as possible. To me, this is like Lucille Ball on the assembly line at the candy factory but obviously, instant gratification is more popular than taking time to study individual photos.

Big improvement to me. I hated all that white space. Now I can quickly see photos and scroll down. Just bought another two years on my pro subscription so I'm good to March 2016. Wanted to keep the stats, didn't want ads, and renewal price half of the ad free.

Ugh. A contact or two posts a mediocre or worse photo (it happens) and that image(s) shows up filling most of my opening screen. Ugh. Thumbnails, please. But wait, those thumbnails don't play well with smart phones or tablets. And that's what this re-design seems about. But why alienate a large part of your audience, those who primarily or exclusively view flickr on computer monitors?

And why is this article on Connect?

It's so awful from so many perspectives I don't know where to begin.

I guess I'm in the minority - I like the look and feel on both my pc and tablet. If they resolve the latency, it's a winner for me...

I miss old flikr big time

I just discovered that clicking on "Edit" on your "You" page will bring up the old page layout.

I still like it :-)

RIP Flickr, you had a good run. I'm sad to see you go.

more crap designed for tablets rather than pc's

This new version of Flickr is a navigational nightmare & it's not just a matter of getting used to. As a longtime SW developer I call this the "No Way Out" school of design. It looks like the site's been hacked.

What an ugly "Web 3.0" mess.

The new Flickr sucks big time.

I deleted my Flickr Pro account last year October, one of the reasons because I got so annoyed with the obsolete interface and small pictures (especially on older uploads, even though they were stored in much higher resolution), but today I signed up again!
Even though it takes a little bit of time to get used to the new interface, this is what I wanted!

And it's kinda funny to read all the negative comments about the changes after Flickr being bashed for years for lagging behind competitors in terms of user interface. :) O well, can't please them all..

I'm a paying pro user and I'am VERY dissatisfied so much that I won't countinue with Flickr but instead switch to other sites. I started on Ipernity today.

I HATE that you don't get a overview on your own and others pictures including information. I could prior to this AWFUL downgrade see 8-12 photots including information at once. Now I have to click on each and everyone. This takes soon much time that I rather do something else. The design is also awful, WHY och WHY is there a black blanket over everything?? The persons responsible for this most be ex workers from Lehman brothers. It's so mindblowing stupid and it will kill of all current users.

Regards from Sweden/Stephan

I finally know what the new Flickr format reminds me of - the page that comes up when you do a google image search. It is a mass of pictures like that except they are bigger and take longer to load.

I just signed up for www.ipernity.com and it looks like it is going to be a nice photo sharing site.

I understand the need for an update (they weren't making enough money; nothing else was broken) but I don't see the attaction of having photos "served" at you as if they were coming out of a firehose. Instead of a photostream, its like a torrential photo-flood.

Bring back the thumbnails on flickr homepage. I really don't want to have to scroll through large versions of every image posted by each of my contacts. Thumbnails. I could pick and choose which to look at more closely. And maps? Maps for each photo are gone.

I think the interface is slower because flickrr is getting a lot of attention because of the 1TB stunt.

I am very interested in using flickr as a backup for my photos in case my HDD failed, broken or stolen. Some photos are quite precious and no free cloud drive services are large enough for all my photos. Does anyone know an easy way to upload all my photos to flickr?

To me, the new Flickr format is just too busy and crowded. Everything is jammed together so closely on the main photo stream page. Each individual photo page seems disjointed and the info about the photo isn't as easy to assimilate.

There is another site www.ipernity.com that is very similar to what Flickr used to be like. They will even import all your flickr photos.

Well sorry guys but I didn't like the old Flickr interface at all! It needed an update. Loads fast enough on my PC, but I do have a fast system that I avoid filling up with non-photo junk and programs, so I'm not best placed to comment on speed.

Interesting. Now Flickr has managed to shed the last of its individuality, originality & uniqueness & looks like every other eye-candy website that holds your attention for about 5 seconds .

If this is the direction Yahoo takeovers are heading, I give MM < 3 years at the helm.

Even DPReview see fit to talk about Flickr on their mobile phone site.

Has it come to this that Flickr has become another juvenile infested forum full of junk photography like Facebook?

I have to say I am really upset by the new Flickr.

The interface is awful and if this is the direction its heading I may well get left behind.