This rubbish photograph will get loads of views
The We're Here challenge for today is on the theme of "The new Flickr layout sucks".
Others have expressed more eloquently why Flickr has lost some of its initial glory. For me, the most irritating thing is something rather mundane, namely the way that views now appear to be calculated. Until the recent changes, I was pleased to hit 100 views per day. Moreover I had to work for that by building a community of friends and by daily posting photographs. I knew that each view meant that someone somewhere had opened my little photograph. Many of those people I have been privileged to get to know.
Now, however, I usually get well over 300 views per day and this is despite the fact that I haven't posted a photograph in ages. My assumption is that this is because flickr now counts as a 'view' every time one of my photographs appears on one of their unfeasibly long scrolls of photographs. As such, my most viewed photographs are no longer most viewed because they are good, but because they fall within certain common search categories. As such, a photograph of my wife through the stem of a wine glass has many views simply because it is a result if one searches for 'drunk wife'.
So, I am going to put this to the test by tagging this thoroughly unremarkable photograph with some of those tags and seeing how many 'views' I can obtain. Unfortunately, of course, hardly any of these will be actual views. That is so old Flickr. In new Flickr, everyone views, but no-one sees.
This rubbish photograph will get loads of views
The We're Here challenge for today is on the theme of "The new Flickr layout sucks".
Others have expressed more eloquently why Flickr has lost some of its initial glory. For me, the most irritating thing is something rather mundane, namely the way that views now appear to be calculated. Until the recent changes, I was pleased to hit 100 views per day. Moreover I had to work for that by building a community of friends and by daily posting photographs. I knew that each view meant that someone somewhere had opened my little photograph. Many of those people I have been privileged to get to know.
Now, however, I usually get well over 300 views per day and this is despite the fact that I haven't posted a photograph in ages. My assumption is that this is because flickr now counts as a 'view' every time one of my photographs appears on one of their unfeasibly long scrolls of photographs. As such, my most viewed photographs are no longer most viewed because they are good, but because they fall within certain common search categories. As such, a photograph of my wife through the stem of a wine glass has many views simply because it is a result if one searches for 'drunk wife'.
So, I am going to put this to the test by tagging this thoroughly unremarkable photograph with some of those tags and seeing how many 'views' I can obtain. Unfortunately, of course, hardly any of these will be actual views. That is so old Flickr. In new Flickr, everyone views, but no-one sees.