A few weeks back I blogged about the latest Flickr feature, galleries. I’ve been using and making galleries now for a few weeks and thought I’d take a second to record my follow up observations after my initial post on the launch. I’ve been making one new gallery a day since Flickr launched the service. Conceptually I think the idea of allowing users the ability to curate galleries of images on Flickr super interesting — one of the more interesting ways to use the service actually. Practically speaking though I think that their are some serious flaws to how this service has been designed and I think that it could be significantly improved. - Thomas Hawk

I agree entirely. I think it's a good idea, but it definitely feels a little half baked. In practice, it's more like being able to group together some faves - and like the existing favorites feature, it's really not that useful to anyone but the user with the gallery. The interface design could use some work too - using that drop down "add to gallery" will get to be a serious pain once you've created hundreds of them. - Eric P