Flickr Protest 6 April 2014 (Red Day) "Read this Flickr Programmers & Yahoo CEO"

            Once again we are at a juncture where the programmers have forced many and especially those that use the English version and paid for premium pro accounts to use the "New Flickr Experience"  

The programmers and leadership at Yahoo (i.e. CEO Marissa Mayer) failed to pay attention to the flickr users back on December 8, 2013 (flickr Black Day) and simply ignored the many fine photographers that made flickr what it was.  

For the flickr programmers and especially the staff that monitor the forum please know you have once again ignored the users and pandered to advertisers.  Really bad idea for flicker to change the old format.  We don't mind changes that make it better, but this time your programmers got it WRONG!!!

We all enjoyed this site the way the format was without having the square pictures to the left of the info.  The info blocks do not provide us with many of the options we used to have should be left as it was without messing with them and the photo format should NOT have been changed.

I would encourage everyone to only post Red for the next 36 hours and especially on 6 April and I would also encourage folks to use the flickr and Yahoo forum to ensure their voices are heard load and clear to the programming and corporate staff that their changes are making a once great web site horrible.  

Simply Flickr staff and the Yahoo CEO (Ms. Mayer) pandering to the advertisers and not to the millions of great photographers that made (past tense) Flickr what it was.  Flickr will go the way of AOL and MySpace if the flickr leadership doesn't listen to the photographers that provide the CONTENT and basis of what this web site was supposed to be.  We will find a better platform if you make the changes stick or don't fix the multitude of bugs quickly!!!!!!!  

Maybe it really is time to try 500px.  What say you?  What say flickr staff?  What say you Ms. Marissa Mayer (CEO of Yahoo)!!

Taken on: April 5, 2014

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