Martainn's articles

  • Another Flickr flit

    - 9 years ago - 3 comments
    Well here I am on ipernity, not quite another Flickr refugee but more of a Flickr doubter. I've been using a Pro account on Flickr since 2008 and I've had a great time posting pictures up, looking at other people's pictures and searching for pictures to invite into the Flickr Group, "Forestry Harvesting and Forwarding Equipment", where I'm one of the joint admins. However when Flickr changed into their new display format and new pricing structure I didn't like either the way it was done, w…

  • An update on Yahoo and Flickr.

    - 03 Aug 2013 - 2 comments
    In the last week or so the last hold-out on Flickr from the bandwith hog of infinite scrolling has gone and you can't view groups in thumbnail view anymore. Now groups have fallen the only place left on Flickr where you can see pictures in thumbnails is the photostream and you have to manually add ?details=1 at the end of the URL in order to do it on someone else's photostream. There's also been an uproar about the insertion of a Yahoo toolbar at the top of the page in Flickr which links…