flowerville
abandoning ship
well this is not good.
like so many others i can only express my exasperation with those recent deteriorations. being on flickr for 6 years as a pro user there were many occasions when changes were introduced and people protested, there was the censor thing back then, then came the video controversy, but nothing was as bad as this. the other things, i had an opinion on them or not, but it did not massively affect the way how i used the site.
now this. when i looked at it first i thought i had the wrong link. this new design has made it basicly - i felt revulsed and unable to use it, it's just a complete psychological closing down, a visceral, visual reaction of aesthetic refusal. my soul doesn't want this.
flickr was always the place on the net where i operated in the most constant way and where i made the best experiences, got to know the nicest people.
i guess it's the end of an era.
so, practicalities. i relocated - already quite a few people there - to ipernity to play around a little to see how it feels and current activities take place there.
i will not close down here immediately, to observe the next developments & in the unlikely event the changes will be reverted & to figure out what to do with the archives. who knows what might happen.
one thing is clear: the way flickr looks and operates now, i can't use it like this. i really can't. it fucked with so many things.
so, see you on the other side.
or:
abandoning ship
well this is not good.
like so many others i can only express my exasperation with those recent deteriorations. being on flickr for 6 years as a pro user there were many occasions when changes were introduced and people protested, there was the censor thing back then, then came the video controversy, but nothing was as bad as this. the other things, i had an opinion on them or not, but it did not massively affect the way how i used the site.
now this. when i looked at it first i thought i had the wrong link. this new design has made it basicly - i felt revulsed and unable to use it, it's just a complete psychological closing down, a visceral, visual reaction of aesthetic refusal. my soul doesn't want this.
flickr was always the place on the net where i operated in the most constant way and where i made the best experiences, got to know the nicest people.
i guess it's the end of an era.
so, practicalities. i relocated - already quite a few people there - to ipernity to play around a little to see how it feels and current activities take place there.
i will not close down here immediately, to observe the next developments & in the unlikely event the changes will be reverted & to figure out what to do with the archives. who knows what might happen.
one thing is clear: the way flickr looks and operates now, i can't use it like this. i really can't. it fucked with so many things.
so, see you on the other side.
or: