Flickr sucks?

“Let’s face it, Flickr sucks when it comes to photo browsing. You type a keyword and hit search, Flickr by default returns results of 24 images, one after another, top down approach. If the keyword returns more than 500 results, imagine how many pages you’ll have to go through.

CompFight is a Flickr image search tool that makes searching really simple. It displays in thumbnails, leaving the photo details behind. My 1280×800 resolution displays at least 50 thumbnails at a time. Next few batches gets loaded while you scroll so you don’t have to click on the pagination. CompFight is limited to tag searching only, perhaps the only limitations I see.

Here’s few Flickr hacks we’ve previously mentioned

• View by thumbnails (inside Flickr)
• View highest resolution of photo

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Posted by hongkiat in Web 2.0, Web Tricks , at 04.19.08   Tags: browse, compfight, flickr, photo, search

Comments

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   Reub April 19th, 2008

   Dude, have you ever tried PicLens? It’s way cooler than this Flickr browser you’re talking about. It’s actually a plug-in for Firefox so it’s not a separate app, just an add-on. Whenever there’s a page that has a photo pool to it, a play button will appear on the lower left of the pic when you mouse over, sort of like the Flock’s media browser. Click on it and it’ll launch PicLens full screen and I tell you, it’s awesome! The only drawback is you can’t minimize it, it’s either full screen or closed so if you see a pic you like and you click to see it’s page, you can’t resume the browsing you’ve just done. You’ll gonna have start over the first pic. Either way, it’s awesome. Love yourblog though, keep up the good work!

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   Syahid A. April 19th, 2008

   Good find! I am currently using the Flickr siderbar extension to solve this problem.

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   Ryan Teuscher April 19th, 2008

   Just a heads-up. On compfight, if you select the “Tags Ony” button, it switches to “All Text”. We are working on a redesign to help out with the functionality.

   Thanks for the plug.
   Ryan
   compfight

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4. 

   hongkiat April 19th, 2008

   Reub: Thanks for the heads up!

   Syahid : That’s another good way “

Tags: flickr, fly, photo browsing, photos, search tool. Compfight, thumbnails