“I think Flickr should rename "interesting photos" to "pretty pictures". How to find pictures that are really interesting?”
September 29 at 5:43 am
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Morton Fox, Eula, roel and 3 other people liked this
One way is find people whose work you find interesting and look at their favourites. What I do is to spend about 15 minutes every few days just looking at the recently uploaded thumbnails. I find I click on about one every four of five pages and one in every two or three of these are really interesting pictures and one in every four or five are taken by a photographer with an interesting body of work. - John Wilson
I think Flickr needs to do a Friendfeed, e.g. use the Flickr usage data of me and my friends to give me personalised recommendations based on the photos I mark as favorite or comment on. - roel
I set up lists on FF by type of photographer. So far I've got 4 lists. General favorite Flickr photographers, SF photographers, neon photographers, graffiti photographers, but I'm just getting started. I find seeing what these people are faving is far better than Flickr's algorithm. - Thomas Hawk
I agree that Flickr should work on its contacts and favorites features - they could learn a lot from FF with favorites, especially. I've also been very struck lately with how outdated Flickr's groups and comments features are. Why can't I "fave" or "bookmark" (or "like") a group thread or comment, and then view my contacts' favorite comments and threads? Clearly, to me, the social aspect of Flickr is what separates it from competitors, but it could certainly be improved. - TreJack
Checking what my favorite photographers are "favoriting" always leads me to interesting photos - João Almeida
you can do searches for terms and then restrict the search results to your contacts producing a superior return. - Thomas Hawk