I was anxious to generate this post because I am an advocate for the educational use of Flickr and because tech pundits I follow (e.g., Leo Laporte) recently claimed Yahoo has allowed Flickr to stagnate.
So, to the contrary, Flickr has made recent modifications including a new uploadr and a new way for viewing your photos – the camera roll (sounds similar to Apple).
Camera roll
uploadr
I find the Camera Roll useful. I have mixed reactions to the uploadr. It seems to me that users have different ideas about what Flickr is for. Some want to store everything there and some use it to showcase selected images for selected groups. I am not a fan of upload everything stored on every device and sort it out later. The terabyte of storage and setting who can see what seems to be what Yahoo assumes most folks prefer to do. I guess, but I would rather be more selective in the upload process so that
I am not a fan of upload everything stored on every device and sort it out later. The terabyte of storage and setting who can see what seems to be what Yahoo assumes most folks prefer to do. I guess this works, but I would rather be more selective in the upload process so that those accidental-photos taken with my phone and the multiple exploratory shots of the same scene with my cameras do not end up on Flickr. Uploadr does allow the selection of a folder for upload, but this option will not jump out at you. I turn off all of the preselects to give me the option of selecting a folder.
Flickr did need an improved way to upload images and this works well but my method is obviously a kludge.
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