{"id":234,"date":"2013-03-21T19:18:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T23:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hmuljadi.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2013-03-21T19:18:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T23:18:55","slug":"flickr-under-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hmuljadi.com\/blog\/design_inspiration\/flickr-under-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Flickr’s Under Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought we have seen the last of these. Oh you know, with all the rage of web 2.0, 3.0, and all the slick design breakthrough happening everywhere. So it was a nice<\/del> surprise when I came across one of these today. On a fairly popular site, nonetheless.<\/p>\n

After enjoying a free three-month trial of Flickr Pro<\/a>, my subscription was coming to an end. For a while I was intrigued to check out Flickr’s Stats<\/strong> page, but unfortunately that didn’t come with the free trial. After months-long deliberation of Flickr’s $25 vs 500px’s $50 annual subscription, I decided to go with Flickr since most of my photos and sets are on there anyway. The decision was also made easy especially considering I just spent some time integrating my Flickr gallery to my Photography<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, I finally purchased the annual subscription, rushed to the Stats page, and lo and behold.<\/p>\n

\"Under<\/a>

The guy’s actually drilling something.<\/p><\/div>\n

As of this writing (about 2 hours since I purchased subscription), I still see this page and its lovely under construction gif. Looks like I’ll need to wait another “few days” before I see something.<\/p>\n

Comparing the Two? Why not.<\/h2>\n

Generally speaking though, Flickr.com needs a major redesign. Comparing this with 500px<\/a>, the outdated design is certainly one of the major cons.<\/p>\n

500px puts the only things that matter front-and-center: the photographs. No advertisements. No blog snippets. No marketing spiels. No clutter. Upon uploading a photo on 500px, it gets promoted and exposed enough to the community that you start getting votes\/favorites\/comments fairly quickly.<\/p>\n

Speaking of uploading photos, you’ve got to love the little “Discoverability” meter that 500px recently added. It really makes you want<\/em> to do the less glamorous process of adding metadata about your photos. Yay for gamification!<\/p>\n

\"500px<\/a>

Discoverability Meter really makes you want to add metadata of your photos.<\/p><\/div>\n

Maybe I’m not active enough on Flickr, but I find myself needing to promote my photos by adding it to random groups in order to get any<\/em> exposure. I do like the nice, active community there though that I scan and peruse from time to time.<\/p>\n

I guess it’s all about context of use. 500px has a lot to love and is about focusing on the few beautiful, portfolio-worthy money shots you’ve taken. Flickr is about uploading all those couple hundred photos from Weekend at Uncle Bob’s and sharing the album with your family and friends.<\/p>\n

I should’ve gone with 500px. Oh well, there’s always next year.<\/p>\n

How about you?<\/h2>\n

Which photo-sharing website do you prefer? Do you use a different one?<\/p>\n

If you haven’t already, feel free to follow me on both 500px<\/a> and Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n