Flickr seems to have slowed quite noticeably this week. I am theorizing that it is due to increased traffic associated with their recent major upgrade. Still, I have pretty good success using Flickr with Google Chrome, and recommend trying that.
Max Rae On 5/21/2013 12:10 PM, David Heath wrote:
Following up on my RFO of yesterday, this morning, as an experiment, I installed Firefox to see if a different browser would give different results from my IE8. Oddly enough, it did. It's still pretty slow, but at least my Flickr photostream and sets do load in Firefox (they didn't at all in IE8, even leaving the browser open more than a half hour).I probably won't have a good notion of how usable Flickr is, even in Firefox, until the next time I try to upload a significant number of photos, so keep the feedback coming. So far I've heard from users of Picasa and Imgur.David *From:*Shawneen Finnegan [mailto:shawneenfinnegan@xxxxxxxxx] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:40 AM *To:* drheath82@xxxxxxxxxxxx *Subject:* Re: [obol] Photo sharing sites David:I would appreciate hearing what you learn. The only time I use Flickr anymore is so I can load photos in my eBird reports.Shawneen On May 20, 2013, at 5:56 PM, David Heath wrote:I'd appreciate some feedback on photo sharing sites, as alternatives to Flickr, which I already use but probably won't for much longer.I consider this has at least tangential relevance to OBOL's mandate because of the extent to which I and numerous others use Flickr to share our bird photos, as I did yesterday with my Spain photos.For those who haven't been to Flickr lately, within the last few hours Yahoo has completely changed the look, feel, and loading speed of Flickr. About the only page of my account that I can actually access is the Stats page, from which I gather that not a single photo or set has been accessed since the changeover was made. Page loading is so slow now that I can't even access my own photostream, making the site more or less completely useless. Hence my desire to have some input from users of other sites about where I should migrate to.Thanks, David * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * New Address: 6555 SW Old Scholls Ferry Rd., Apt 8 Portland, OR 97223 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *www.shawneenfinnegan.wordpress.com <http://www.shawneenfinnegan.wordpress.com>
