The new release (October 2016) is a complete DISASTER !!!!

There are far too many large photos of a single member on the main page, whereas previously there was summary information showing thumb-nails of a number of members, which was relatively quick to review, and access if desired. The new presentation is AWFUL !!!

The "Group" functions have been redesigned in a similar way, and are now virtually unusable !!

Another VERY irritating feature is the inclusion of "Recommended" photos. How on earth can you read my mind and decide what to "Recommend" to me?
TOTALLY worthless and irrelevant, and takes up valuable space on my screen!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE give us AT LEAST the option of returning to the previous version, or (preferably) withdraw this latest version completely !!!
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Now I discover that I can't even input my e-mail address properly in the mandatory box below, because it has an underscore in it - your syntax checker replaces it with a space, then says "Invalid email address!" It's already a valid user-id on the Yahoo system!!!!!!
My e-mail address is diane_belle2@yahoo.com

This has been brought up, discussed, and requested repeatedly over the last decade, yet Flickr has done absolutely nothing to fix the situation and address the issues with rogue administrators that at some point just take over a group and will not cooperate with any of the other admins who are trying to keep the group on track with its intended purpose!

As a group founder you may or may not have experienced this issue as of yet, but if you have granted admin privileges or intend to grant admin privileges to any member of your group, be forewarned that once you do, there currently is no turning back if something goes wrong with that choice!

The scenario is this, you start a group and are the only admin, it's small, you don't really need help administering it so you are in full control. Time goes on and the group grows so big, or gets so active, or you just don't have as much time as you need to administer it yourself efficiently, so you dig into the current member pool asking for help.

A nice member agrees to help manage the group, so you upgrade their status and make them a moderator, which for a time everything is great. The moderator has less privileges than you as an admin, so if they didn't work out, you can easily demote them back into a regular member, or boot them from the group if they had become unruly or disrespectful to you or other group members.

Over time the moderator seems to do well moderating your group, so you feel that they might even be more useful if they are given more responsibility and privileges, so you ask them to be an admin, and they agree . . . so you promote them.

That's where everything can wrong in the blink of an eye, or should I say, with just one small disagreement this new admin might have with the group (its rules/requirements, etc.), another admin or moderator, or even simple members!

They can start deleting and changing just about everything they want within the group (except for demoting or deleting other admins) whenever they want, without any recourse available for other admins or the group founder to stop them if what they are doing is not beneficial or is actually harmful for the group to keep running smoothly.

As an admin, this member now cannot be demoted by anyone, not another admin or even the group founder (assuming the founder is still in the group and remained as an admin too), with the only exception being that they would actually demote themselves . . . which of course won't usually happen if an admin is acting maliciously anyway, so the group is now stuck with this person having all this control over the group.

There has to be at least one way to stop this from happening, and Flickr (or now Yahoo), has one that can easily be initiated, just create a Founder's category within every group that contains the single person who originally created the group, which will always have privileges above and beyond those of all other group members, allowing this one person to at least be able to remove rogue admins from the group if the unfortunate situation arises!

I implore all group founders (and anyone else who agrees) to add maximum votes for this request and post their experiences or thoughts about it here and now, as group founders definitely need a way to always remain in complete control of their own group if they wish to do so, even if they need others to help administer the group!

There are some awesome groups in Flickr that do more than just collecting photographs. It would be great to present some of these groups in the Weekly Flickr blog.
I'm part of the admin team of Flickr's 100 Best (https://flic.kr/g/dhB69L). It is the Hunger Game of Flickr and has a limited pool of 100 awesome photographs of all kind. Over 10'000 members challenge the actual pool photographs to get theirs in. Our group is highly active with over 50 challenges a month.
Besides the fun aspect, members get a serious and constructive critique in our group and fantastic hints how to improve their photographic and editorial skills.
If one searches in Google for the "best group in Flickr" he will unavoidably be directed to our group. Hence we have a huge traffic of curious Flickr members. Winning photographs get great visibility and will not be covered by a myriad of new images within an instance.

Going to summarize this in point form.
1) To use the comments feature on a picture you have to scroll down the page to enter your comment in the popup window, and then scroll back up and close it.

2) Clicking on a photo use to take you to a person's photo stream where you could manipulate the photo easier and view other photos by the author more readily. Now it's this lightbox thing, and you have to click the photo again to get to the better viewing tools.

3) The site is overall less usable. Things which you should focus your attention on are the seach capabilities of your site. You cannot search your faves at in any way. Looking up people in search doesn't always work with the quickfind features either. THOSE should be your focus not the site redesign. Please put back in place the older more usable site, and work on the things which make the site better, not worse.

Hi Flickr Team! This is an idea how to improve the Flickr service and to create value add for people / photographers planning a photo trip: In addition to text comments and faves there should be another button which adds selected geo tagged images automatically to a map ( e.g. from Here) . After having finished adding several images to this background map the result is a gpx trail with all the individual selected images in addition. So it will be easy to plan a furture trip to the same locations other FLickr users have been before. Such a feature would be very important for me and I would pay for such a service, too. Would be great to get any feedack about this. Thanks all!