[technoslut]

Flickr updated their site a few months ago along with the release with their new iPhone app. It still doesn't feel like a modern site and it doesn't work as well as it should.

Supposedly there is a new Flickr being shown off tomorrow and hopefully Yahoo rebuilt the site from the ground up.

[DannoHung]

What the heck does Flickr actually need? Social garbage? No thanks. Just let me put my fucking photos somewhere. I'm a paying customer for like 6 years, it does exactly what I want. The only feature Flickr needs to work on is making uploads from my editing app easy. Everything else can go take a flying fuck off a short pier.

[untog]

If there aren't enough paying customers then yes, it does need to add new features to attract new users.

[rhizome]

Yeah, the overall UX has needed updating for quite some time, but I also imagine their paying customers (photo nuts) are some of the pickier users out there. I wouldn't be surprised if the best course for Flickr is to be as conservative with changes as possible.

[antiterra]

Even if it's the best course, it might still wreck on the coral reef cruft of dead accounts and abandoned groups. Flickr has been in decline for a while. I doubt incremental changes could bring it back.

[wildgift]

It needs an overhaul, but it does what I need, which is share a few hundred images, broken up into sets. I've tried a couple other sites and apps, and haven't switched yet.

[technoslut]

It does what everybody needs at this point but people have drifted towards services like Instagram because it is so well thought out and easy to use.

In a lot of ways most people are looking for what Flickr offers but refuse to use it. They want privacy, a place to back up their full-resolution smartphone photos and for a very cheap price.