2:36 AM
Diana D'Cruz
Flickr is not very young, he officiates in the industry
since 2005 and brings something like 54 million unique visitors worldwide, all
with more than 6 billion photos stored on its servers. Great, of course, but
the guy is unfortunately stalled for some years now and so it is very difficult
to stand up to newcomers like 500px. Yahoo, meanwhile, has decided to react by
launching a new version of its flagship service. A new version available on all
accounts from that night, and finally brings a lot of news.
Starting with a new interface. From that side, it must be
admitted that the work did not fail because the interface flickr has not really
changed in recent years. She was beginning to show its age , it really did not
respect the expectations of the users of the platform and Yahoo engineers have
decided to start again from scratch.
Although they took as the new Flickr interface is much
nicer than the old one. The content is well developed and our pretty pictures
will be much more impressive than they were before. Yahoo has also opted for a
darker interface and this is obviously a good thing because the pictures that
comes out more. However, what can be noted is that some elements of the old
version tend to rise from time to time over the pages. By clicking on a photo,
for example, the old interface back for a split second before disappearing
swiftly. Worse, some items are broken and this is particularly true of the
homepage that seems to load without CSS.
1TB for the new version of Flickr!
Strange, that's for sure, but no doubt that everything
should quickly return to normal.
Among the new features to the service, there is this
cover story that seems very fashionable at the moment. Just like Facebook and
Twitter as well as Google+, Flickr will now allow us to change the coverage of
our profile and we can stick him a pretty picture on the buttocks in order to
show how we are all creative. Also in the same vein, Yahoo also announced news
that should please all those with a free account on the service.
Which one?
Well this is a story of storage space, actually. Now,
Flickr allow us to store as much as 1 TB of data without having to leave our
credit card. Two subscription plans are yet in force: the phrase "Ad
Free" without advertisement, charged $ 49.99 per year and the phrase
"double" with 2TB of disk space charged $ 499.99 per year. With that,
you should have plenty to do, even though we would all like to see land cheaper
intermediate formulas.
So naturally, it is still too early to know if this new
version will save the service, but it should all de same to please those who
have remained faithful all these years, and have therefore not been look
elsewhere.
Oh, and if not, know that a new version of the Android
app also just landed the Play Store, a new version that provides exactly the
same as the new web portal.
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