I seriously do not understand the widespread use of Flickr. In my admittedly limited research of this topic, the ONLY rationalization I can come up with is that it was "first on the scene" so to speak.
I cannot express the many many ways in which I hate Flickr. The UI is horrendous. Every time someone uses it or shows me something like "check out this Flickr stream of my totally awesome pics," I want to gouge my own eyes out before I even get over there. I have to steel myself for the steaming pile of poo that is Flickr. Additionally, it always breaks my work computer. There I am, reading work related topics when someone says something like "click here to view photos of the event" and then BAM! it closes anything I had been working on. Not just the one window I might have had open at the time, but ALL windows. Ugh...I really don't understand it.
This reminds me of the sacrilege post I did where I contend that sometimes people love stuff for inexplicable reasons. Again, I just don't understand it.
In case anyone's interested, I use Picasa instead. I've found it to be the ONLY "easy to insert captions" piece of software out there. Being a google fangirl, this really shouldn't surprise anyone.
Watching the Wheels
2 hours ago
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Wow, you weren't kidding about how much you hate Flickr! I've never heard of anyone that I know experiencing the same troubles you have with it. Sounds like a Windows problem to me. Of course a I'm a cultist from the Mac camp, so my opinion is very biased. :) But I can appreciate your distaste, if it were my OS crashing with the use of Flickr, I'd probably not use it either. What else don't you like about it?
Yeah, sorry I came back to my home turf to vent. I didn't want to be rude on your blog.
I don't know, it's just everytime I open Flickr (on my home computer, where it doesn't break anything...) I'm struck by how awful the UI is. It just astounds me that no one seems to notice. It's as if we've all accepted mediocrity and shrugged. It's hard to navigate, not very intuitive and I've just never once had an experience where I've walked away from a Flickr site feeling satisfied.
Now that I've said that, I'll put two disclaimers here. The first is that I live with a man who is a huge computer geek. Our house is fucking wired to the rafters. Living with someone like that (and yes, he's switched all over to Macs and Linux, but he's still working on me...) Anyway, living with someone like that makes you really observant of computers, websites, etc and the way that they work. (Which is funny that I haven't switched over to a Mac yet..although I have my reasons.)
Secondly, when Flickr breaks my computer at work (with no fucking warning) it's likely because my work computer is so hopelessly outdated, I'm not even sure how I manage to get any actual work done on it. The only browser I have available on my work machine? Wait for it.... IE-fucking-6. Yeah...it's that bad. So, I'm sure Flickr breaking my work computer has to do with IE6, but I hated Flickr well before seven months ago when I took this job and promptly found out how spoiled I'd been, sleeping with the IT guy from my previous job.
I use picasa too and I really like that I can intergrate it easily with my blog and other google aps. :)
N,
Good to see you again!!! I haven't actually integrated Picasa with this site at all, but I've posted pictures there instead of sending them out to people, for the ease of it. I also LOVE how Picasa handles captions. Easy, quick. I heart google. :D
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