The previous version of Flickr’s mobile app lacked this important feature. The reader is super simple and does exactly what it’s supposed to do, it lets you easily read your threads and respond if you want from mobile. Speaking of Flickr groups, with this new app Flickr introduces a really nice basic thread reader that will allow you to stay on top of all of your favorite threads while you’re mobile. In addition to viewing your contacts’ most recent photos and going fave bombastic Billy Wilson style you’re also now able to view all kinds of other areas of Flickr in a beautiful mosaic photo layout - your own photostream and sets, group photo pools, other people’s sets, Explore, all have a justified photo layout that just invite you to go tap tap crazy. Flickr is also now going to begin counting mobile views of your photos as views for your photo stats (previously mobile views were not counted) so expect both the views and faves on your photos to sky rocket. Every time your friends have 10 minutes in line at the bakery they are going to be all up in your Flickrstream faving things like crazy. What does this mean? It means that all of a sudden you are going to start noticing a ton more faves on your Flickr photos. Yep, Instagram gave us the first big fave inflation tool by allowing us to tap tap fave our way through life and Flickr now has adopted that protocol allowing you to tap tap fave photos by all your favorite photographers. ![]() ![]() Who and how these individuals are selected and included is Flickr secret sauce, but it should make sure that you never have a shortage of photos to see even if you’re new.ĮVEN BETTER. You can just keep scrolling down the page (infinitely) to see new photos by all your contacts or at any individual contact you can stop and start scrolling horizontally (infinitely) to go through their entire photostream, very, very fast.īrowsing group discussions and faving a contacts’ photo in the new Flickr iPhone app.įor newer users who don’t have a lot of contacts yet that might browse through their entire contacts list, new recommended photographers are added so that a user never runs out of contacts’ photos to see. As you vertical scroll down the screen it shows the last photos uploaded by all your favorite people that you follow. The best basic view is of your contacts’ most recent photos. Where the app starts to get exciting for me though is the browsing of photos. This stuff is probably super important to the average minor league user, but is actually pretty boring to me. You can then apply one of about 15 different Instagrammy sort of filters that are all named after animals in the app. You can select different points for focus and exposure when you snap your photo. You can crop photos, straighten photos, increase contrast, stuff like this. It has some pretty good simple editing tools powered by Aviary. It’s nice to finally see a decent Instagram competitor out there.įirst the basics. I had some time to play around with the app yesterday and it is pretty much does 100% exactly what you’d want a Flickr mobile app to do. It not only smokes every other previous mobile version of Flickr it smokes every other mobile photo sharing app on the market today. This morning Flickr is rolling out a brand spanking new Flickr iPhone app and it is that good - really, really, really, really mind blowingly fantastic good. Well Christmas is coming early this year for Flickr iPhone users. My photostream and the new Flickr splash screen for their new iPhone app.
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