I complained about Flickr last time when I was writing about 500px. I was not very happy with its old, clumsy UI and not motivated at all to upload new photos. Luckily, Flickr seems to have realized this as well. After a major revamp of the UI and free 1TB storage for everybody, it looks all new again!
The before and after screenshots well explained the change. Photos are now nicely displayed by fitting in place rather than piece by piece. It also introduces the concept of cover photo, like many other social websites and a high resolution profile picture.
In the Homepage, contacts' activities are more 'photo-oriented', and it's easier to find photos that one will be interested in.
The Uploadr also seems better tweaked. Now Flickr offers 1TB free storage space and original images to all its users. In the Uploadr it indicates that how much you have used of the 1TB storage. Not sure how the previous paid users feel about this upgrade? However, it is definitely some change that is welcomed by the majority of Flickr community.
I feel more motivated to upload my photos to Flickr after the change. Of course, it still has its shortcomings, for example, I can't change the layout of the photostream. I want to reduce the photo size to display more photos in one screen. It also only has the option to add photos to favourite but not simply 'like' it, which makes the social feature less interactive.
Anyway, Flickr has done the right thing. People must feel more encouraged to upload their photos to Flickr now (at least I do). So do check it out if you haven't come back to Flickr for long!
You can check out my Flickr site here :)
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