How Flickr’s overhaul kept me from fleeing

  Posted on May 4, 2012 by CNET in Social Media

‘m encouraged by the signs of change at Flickr — enough so that I’ve decided my photos are staying put there.

After years of what amounts to neglect, it’s now clear that management of Yahoo’s photo-sharing site is aware of what it needs to do — and that it’s doing it. Step by step, the site is building itself into something more competitive.

It’s got a ways to go, and I don’t see any easy way to tap into the power that Facebook has for photo sharing, but I still see grounds for optimism for the online photo pioneer.

Yesterday marked one important change: the ability to see photos much larger — specifically, resolutions as wide as 1,600 or 2,048 pixels. That means a more immersive experience, and it’s crucial for making photos look their best. Photos can be shown larger through interpolating data to make up new pixel data, but Flickr’s approach shows the real photo.

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