flickr

[arethinn]

Anyone else not really liking the new black backgrounds on Flickr? Viewing on black by choice is one thing, but it reads really oddly to me as a default, much different than having white (or very light grey) space instead would have. I'm also not liking how the photostream, "View all sizes" and all that (including the account name/avatar of the photographer!) are all pushed off the bottom of the screen and not immediately visible. I know they want people to see the picture pretty much as big as possible right off, but... ugh. (I don't like this on deviantArt either, how sometimes the automatic sizing will push the various navigation, favoriting, and other interactible things off the right of the screen and down under the picture, depending on the proportions and size of the pic.)

I am not sure this is what the petitioners meant when they said "Marissa Mayer, please make Flickr awesome again." (Not that I was in the original crowd before 2005 when Yahoo purchased it. I think I only got an account in 2007.)