On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Erik Moeller, 21/05/2013 19:40:
AFAICS, they also:
1) collapsed the button that allows you to set the license of an image of
yours, which is now hidden below a "more" link in the metadata section that
was moved outside the screen (or did this happen before? certainly after
2010) ;
2) removed any UI path to the advanced search and to the search for
free/CC images, so that now you can find them only on the advanced search,
by knowing its URL:
http://www.flickr.com/search/**advanced/<http://www.flickr.com/search/ad…d/>;
3) less importantly, hid under that mysterious triple-ball "ellipsis"
button the option to find high resolution versions of the image, consistent
with a similar regression in the interface of Google Plus compared to
PicasaWeb.
I found also some bugs, at least for Linux, which make (2) worse.
So, what's the future of CC on Flickr?
http://www.flickr.com/**creativecommons/<http://www.flickr.com/creativec…
only 260M CC images: there were already 220M in 2011 if I read news
correctly; only 60M are free. 75 % of the times I ask a user to put an
image under cc-by-sa they choose -nc-nd because "it was the first option"
(and some of course "what, isn't Wikipedia non-commercial?!).
Is this the price to pay to Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook?
There are already lots of problems with Facebook (and various other social
networks) and free licenses. See this analysis here:
Will the unusable&pretty-fication help bring more
people to an environment
where they may meet free knowledge, or will free knowledge just be
sacrificed? It's unclear to me what's going on.
Nemo
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