The Lost Flickr of Hope

mail@tahirhashmi.com (Tahir Hashmi) — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:35:39 +0000

I woke up this Tuesday morning to a shock.

OMG this Yahoo! bar on top of @Flickr is fugly. If this bar doesn’t go from Flickr, I will. pic.twitter.com/dolGKR8jJu

— Tahir (@codie) July 2, 2013

This bar is wrong in a lot of ways. The way it stands out in all its ugliness from the rest of the Flickr visual design speaks volumes about how it was executed (thoughtlessly, in a draconian way), how little the Flickr development team have a say in how things work (I can’t imagine a product owner who would allow such visual desecration of their product without a protest) and how little Yahoo! as a company cares about its vocal community (no attempt made by Flickr staff to respond to the outpour of grief in their help forum).

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The Lost Flickr of Hope