I just noticed that flickr added a minor tweak just now. You can change the layout of your photos page. There are some small design changes as well but the Flickr logo still bears the gamma tag. To change your flickr photo page’s layout, head over to flickr.com/account/prefs/layout/ and select one of 6 layouts. Just another example that small changes can do a lot. You can replace the sidebar of sets with collections – does anyone know what the difference between a set and a collection is?
Which layout will you be using?
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Collections are like containers for sets, a type of hierarchial filing system for your photos.
Personally I’m sticking with the standard layout.
This is awesome, I haven’t been on since the changes happened. And I am excited to hear about this $100 l-top. When should we expect this?
I’ll be sticking with the default, because it’s what I’m used to and it’s what’s easiest for me to work with.
It’s funny because I was going to blog about how Flickr has not been adding new features…
In addition to this they have also made it possible to be emailed when someone comments on your pictures. I don’t think this was an option before, but I could be very wrong about this.
Ywah collections are sets of sets :P. However for the record collections are Pro account only.
I went with medium and sets but will be moving to collections as soon as I set some up. Collections is a cool addition
Interesting timing with Zooomr down prior to a big new version. Not much of a spoiler from Flickr though.
I always thought that sets should be able to contain other sets. And now, it seems, they can! Hurray!
Nice!
Are collections new? I thought they were there for a while, but they just gained some usefulness. Maybe it is new, not sure.
I actually think Flicr could be doing a lot more with their photo displaying / navigation than they are. As it is, I actually prefer viewing my photos using my vdh_flickr Txp plugin on my own site. That’s pretty sad for Flickr. Although they have more features the actual navigation could use a major overhaul IMO.
Are collections new? I thought they were there for a while, but they just gained some usefulness. Maybe it is new, not sure.
I actually think Flicr could be doing a lot more with their photo displaying / navigation than they are. As it is, I actually prefer viewing my photos using my vdh_flickr Txp plugin on my own site. That’s pretty sad for Flickr. Although they have more features the actual navigation could use a major overhaul IMO.
Are collections new? I thought they were there for a while, but they just gained some usefulness. Maybe it is new, not sure.
I actually think Flickr could be doing a lot more with their photo displaying and navigation than they are. As it is, I actually prefer viewing my photos using my vdh_flickr Txp plugin on my own site. That’s pretty sad for Flickr. Why not have an even smaller thumbnail size for the main viewing area? Although they have more features the actual navigation could use a major overhaul IMO.
I think I was browsing flickr when the update went live. I refreshed my flickr page and was all like WTF.. I looked through the options and decided to stick with the default, but the choices are nice.
@Andrew – yes, collections are very new: http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2007/03/today_we_launch.html
If only there was a way to do both collects, and recent sets…why do we have to choose!?
Sorry for the duplicate comments, it wasn’t showing, feel free to delete the last two and this one as well.
Finally!!! This may be the single reason I may just use Flickr for now on instead of Smugmug. I currently use both pay services.
Peter – This is a very small step in the right direction, I’m amazed that anyone would have such a big reaction to this. I’m more amazed that you are paying for two photo services! Actually viewing photos in Organizr is much better IMO than the default.
I think the default view is the best anyway. Played with it and then realised this. Not tried the grouping of sets as yet.