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one-liner in ink; hope to turn those in paint soon
*note for Carla and Lynn: I posted those also on fb
Dear Ms. Meyer, dear Flickr people, dear Yahoos,
I want my Flickr back! Not everything is always just about the money. And you wouldn't be anything without us. If I wouldn’t care about this platform, I wouldn’t spend the time giving you my two cents here.
Maybe you take this to your heart and reconsider if this way of relaunching Flickr is the proper way to go. Maybe you want to listen to your paying customers before they leave you, even if it’s not the majority. I'd like to point out my disappointment with you: Your actual problems with the business model, the technical problems, and the terrible layout are topped by far with your poor handling of customer relations, or more simply put: the way you treat us photographers in the Flickr community.
I am not happy. You force us from one day to the other into a new layout of the pages. You do this without announcement or warning, and seemingly without feeling out what your customer base wants or needs. You slam on a different business model overnight, and leave us in the dirt, not even answering to our questions and demands. What happens in the help forums where the relaunch is discussed is frankly pathetic and far not sufficient to deal with this situation. As somebody who pays for your services since 2005, I am pretty upset about this behavior.
You slam a horrible, over laden "design" onto the page which consistently causes all my browsers to crash. (I run Windows 7 on a PC with the latest editions of Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.) It is a technical disaster. It is slow, it is confusing, it is incongruent, simply a mess. I know that the relaunch of a website of these dimensions is always a daring task. But please do your appropriate testing, and please consider the concerns of your testers.
Technically, I am not even interested in putting the highest resolution available online. You can't avoid the picture being stolen anyway, so I will never put my best shots in the best resolution out on the web.
I want my Flickr back!
To be blunt: I simply dislike the new layout of the pages.
I want space, surrounding room, white, or black around my photos. And it should depend on what I choose, not what you tell me to do. Every free blog offers me this option, but not you.
I want a clean, quiet layout
I want a single photo view. Uncluttered, without layers and icons and “stuff”.
I do not want this novelty squeezebox which I have to suffer through when I load Flickr in my browser.
I pay you because I liked the layout which was grown, proven and loved by the Flickr community. Go to Google if you want to see a function-laden, sleek, sober design.
I want consistency: Even on the single picture page you don't know if you want a black or a white background. This is really bad. Our photos certainly don't need to be crammed like sardines in a tin can. I couldn't stand this form of presentation in the groups either where you introduced this view first. All the technical glitches don’t make it better - my browser crashes all the time
I want my Flickr back!
The clean design and layout made me with Flickr all these years. Having worked in the online field myself for years - mainly as news editor, but also in layout, usability and complex content flow management - I know too well that new designs are hard to sell. You always have complainers, old-schoolers, stubborn grunts. But this is just awful. It might sound arrogant, but I am not just a "run-of-the-mill griper".
Don't get me wrong. I am happy about new things and improvement. I look forward to the integration of new functions, improvements of details and I can deal with thoughtful new design. I can live with changes towards a successful model. Google for example really mastered it to keep their page sleek and slim though permanently adding a wad of functions. But the new Flickr layout is just dreadful. Please go back to a clean, sober style or at least give paying customers the option to do so. I understand that you are not keen on ditching the new layout, but at least give us an option to go back to what we loved. You are forcing us more now than any next free blog around the corner where we chose between “themes”.
How about introducing new features and looks gradually, more in the form of a continuous, step-by-step kaizen development instead of using the sledgehammer approach? It is nice that you have all these ideas – but give us a chance to understand and accept this instead of ripping us over the table. Give us time, give us choices, and most and foremost, give us back what we liked. Otherwise you will lose us. In one single click. Just think of the Instagram disaster with their bold legalese approach. Just trying to rip me off like this was enough for me. I do not trust Instagram anymore, even after they pulled back. I simply left and never turned back. I would prefer not to do this with Flickr, if you can help it.
I want my Flickr back!
Otherwise I see more and more users leaving you. Considering though how much time I invested on your service, I would really regret this - and I think we can expect a better treatment because of this. We built this as well as you did. It is a mutual respect we need. Without us and our work you wouldn't be successful either. But it is quite disrespectful to dump this layout on us with out a choice, and without a warning.
Yes, you can press us quite hard: We poor users have a hard time leaving you altogether because we invested countless hours into
- preparing, uploading, mapping, tagging and presenting our pictures here.
- building a network with other Flickr users, creating groups, personal connections and real-world-meetings.
- contributed a living social platform focused on photography (and less so on video, text and whatever else the others do).
This is something we would have a hard time letting go. You probably bet on the laziness of your users to make a complete exodus from your pages. I find the approach of ipernity.com encouraging and seducing; to offer me an easy way out and migrating all my photos from Flickr to Ipernity with one batch operation. Please realize that you live in a world where you can lose it all in one click. Listen to us. I am more than intrigued to consider alternatives, but I'd rather stay on Flickr.
I want my Flickr back!
I understand how you try to reshape your business model. The free account model with ads is an intriguing not only for Yahoo/Flickr, but also for the numerous cell phone photographers (BTW, Ms. Meyer, is the IPhone 4S your only camera you use? Your public Flickr profile suggests this), but they already can use Tumblr (which Yahoo owns anyway now), Facebook, and what-know-I for other social websites.
If I want to publish my photos on yet another social stream like Facebook, Google+, Tumbler or Instagram, I can go there. Flickr was different, and always had the cutting edge over other photo sharing platforms and a lot of other social sites, even when we felt a bit neglected at times. With the new layout you lose this edge, you look like everybody else. If you want to compete with the other networks, why didn’t you pick one of your better suited sites for this battle?
I want my Flickr back!
Maybe, Ms. Meyer, you might lack a deeper understanding of who your users are on Flickr and what they are interested in? Your “misstatement” about the professional photographers, even when it was often taken out of the context of changing the business model, and even if you apologized for it, really added insult to injury for your professional customers. May I quote for posterity’s sake, in full context?
“…there’s no such thing as Flickr Pro, because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, there is no such thing really as professional photographers, when there’s everything is professional photographers. Certainly there is varying levels of skills, but we didn’t want to have a Flickr Pro anymore, we wanted everyone to have professional quality photos, space, and sharing.”
This was IMHO not just a poor choice of words, but showed an attitude which doesn’t sit well with Flickr users – especially the pros. No matter how you judge their skills.
At the end of the day the group of professional photographers on Flickr is just a part of your customer base. I am sure not everyone with a pro account is really a professional – but he doesn’t even need to be. The pro account users are the ones who loved Flickr so much that they were ready to pay for it. The problem with this Flickr relaunch is the arrogant corporate attitude behind it. “You eat what’s on your plate, whether you paid for it or not. You are just a bunch of amateurish gripers who don’t know better. To us you are nothing more but ad clicks.”
And this is simply not true.
I’d like to point you to Andrew Fingerman’s noteworthy remarks on professionalism which I wish to see realized on the Flickr platform as well. blog.photoshelter.com/2013/05/a-note-to-marissa-mayer-wha...
Last but not least I wish for some faster, better and more public reaction on the Flickr pages how you want to go forward with this mess. I do not want to go to Twitter to search for your oneliners, Ms. Meyer. I want you to use the Flickr to tell us how you want to deal with this mess.
The duck-and-cover approach you try to pull off so far won’t do it. This is not just a matter of some technical difficulties, a call for calming down and the silent hope, we’ll get used to it.
How about a new PR agent for starters? We expect better. We deserve better. And I am sure you could deliver it. I’d love to stay a part of the Flickr community.
I want my Flickr back!
Thank you for your attention.
Janko Puls (jankor)
UPDATE:
At least at one thing, you reacted and succeeded - I can keep my Flickr pro account now though I was so dumb to accept a three month gift subscription from you which ruled me out until yesterday. But the way you handled this, was poor, textbook how NOT to do it: Without warning, you kicked me out of my "privileges" as paying customer with a pro account since 2005. You didn't give me even a second day before cutting me off from my financial commitment - what do you think keeps me as a loyal paying customer when you don’t even give me the chance to grandfather in what our business relation is - to be precise, a continuously paying customer? This was really not a smart move.
I want my Flickr back!
experimenting with my one liners and getting all different compositions in 1 inch buttons , no two of the same design as they were all hand drawn . . avaliable at the Capzoola shop (Geula 42 st. Tel-Aviv) along with my old designs
5 shekels each , your pocket wont even feel it . .
On the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010 the comedian Tim Vine won the award for the best joke with the gag: ''I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.''
In his show this year ‘The Tim Vine Chat Show’ the ‘King of the One-Liner’ joke chats to guests plucked from the audience. It could be Martin from Leeds, who runs a rug shop or Lydia, a housewife from Dundee. Actual people are the stars of the show and Tim interviews them all with childlike enthusiasm. As Tim always says, 'everybody has a story' (please note that the production cannot guarantee that everyone will have a story). 'A very funny man indeed'(Bob Monkhouse), 'The man with the golden pun' (Independent), 'Seriously funny' (Times), 'I never said I had a story' (Martin from Leeds).
I bumped into Tim on the Royal Mile and although he was in a bit of a hurry, he sportingly posed for a photo.
Another typical Tim Vine joke that I like:
"Robbery in multi-storey car-parks. That's wrong on so many levels!"
Yay! We've managed to book tickets for his 2012 Fringe Show! :0))
Stop Press the show was brilliant although he did come up to me in the audience and threaten to break my wife's other (unbroken) arm if I second guessed any more of his punchlines. LOL He is a nice guy as well as as a comedic genius.
2013 STOP PRESS We went to his show again and Tim was brilliant as usual. I got on stage as his final interviewee because I reminded him about threatening my wife last year. Of course this was grist to the mill for a comedian who is a fast improviser of punch-lines.
Unveiled by Ken Dodd (1927-2018) in 2009, the statue resides at the entrance to Lime Street railway station and is flanked by a statue of the late MP, Bessy Braddock. Dodd said (quote from Liverpool Echo ...“Bessie Braddock was a lovely lady. I used to meet her every Monday when I was going to the London Palladium.)
I set the speed as low as I could, trying to convey the idea of people in a hurry about their daily business. And, if you were in a hurry, you would not have attended one of his shows. Dodd was renowned for the length of his performances which earned him a place in The Guinness Book of Records for the world's longest-ever joke-telling session: 1,500 jokes in three-and-a-half hours! (undertaken at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool)
Even in his eighties, shows often did not finish until well after midnight!
GRAFFITI ,TATE,STREET ART ART ,CHARCTER ,WILDSTYLE , CHROMEANDBLACK ,OLIVER , COLOURFUL ,PINK ,BERTY BASSETT, SPRAYPAINT ,MONTANA ,MOLOTOW
,MADNESS , BLACKBOOK , SKETCH ,ABSTRACT , WILD , FATCAP , SKINNYCAP ,LONDON ,TOTTENHAM , DIAMOND ,LIPS, FUNKY ,ABSTRACT ,LIGHTER ,ONELINER ,KNUCKLEDUSTER BRASSKNUCKLES , WEED , JOINT ,GANJA ,CANNABIS ,AMSTERDAM ,SMOKE STORMZY,CHIPMUNK
CASH MOTTO, GRIME,RAP, SBTV GRIME DAILY
Medio pote de negro.
Pido disculpas por la falta de actividad pero no he tenido casi tiempo ni pintura ni un conho, graffiti, no te olvido!
Un poco de lo nuevo que se viene... Bomb, bomb, bomb!!!
Saludos pa la gente de mi crew y a los que se lo vacilen...
Foto de celular..
2011. QE CREW
I used to run a BBS called On Earth As It Is In Hell (click to view old messages and oneliners and such).
Anwyay, yesterday (1/30/2007) I was going over some recovered files from a harddrive crash I had around 1996. In looking at the zip files, I found two different automated zip comments I had created. This was one of them.
It was the ANSI login graphic from my BBS, shrunken from 80x25 to a smaller size, with the color removed.
Ahh, the old days. 1992-1994.
GRAFFITI ,TATE,STREET ART ART ,CHARCTER ,WILDSTYLE , CHROMEANDBLACK ,OLIVER , COLOURFUL ,PINK ,BERTY BASSETT, SPRAYPAINT ,MONTANA ,MOLOTOW
,MADNESS , BLACKBOOK , SKETCH ,ABSTRACT , WILD , FATCAP , SKINNYCAP ,LONDON ,TOTTENHAM , DIAMOND ,LIPS, FUNKY ,ABSTRACT ,LIGHTER ,ONELINER ,KNUCKLEDUSTER BRASSKNUCKLES , WEED , JOINT ,GANJA ,CANNABIS ,AMSTERDAM ,SMOKE STORMZY,CHIPMUNK
CASH MOTTO, GRIME,RAP, SBTV GRIME DAILY
We Bozos have a saying: 'When you put on the nose, it grows.'
- "I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus" by Firesign Theatre
On television Bozo the Clown was played by Frank Avruch, Bob Bell, Larry Harmon, and Joey D'Auria.
"A: Fill the tank!"
Ted's idea of humour.
We hired a car for a few days and he couldn't wait to get behind the wheel...
GRAFFITI ,TATE,STREET ART ART ,CHARCTER ,WILDSTYLE , CHROMEANDBLACK ,OLIVER , COLOURFUL ,PINK ,BERTY BASSETT, SPRAYPAINT ,MONTANA ,MOLOTOW
,MADNESS , BLACKBOOK , SKETCH ,ABSTRACT , WILD , FATCAP , SKINNYCAP ,LONDON ,TOTTENHAM , DIAMOND ,LIPS, FUNKY ,ABSTRACT ,LIGHTER ,ONELINER ,KNUCKLEDUSTER BRASSKNUCKLES , WEED , JOINT ,GANJA ,CANNABIS ,AMSTERDAM ,SMOKE STORMZY,CHIPMUNK