Next Firefox tells me there’s an enormous amount of CSS errors (over 100). I look around a little and suddenly notice that when I browse through pictures, the whole room sees it. And I think here is the biggest problem: there’s no clear intuitive way of knowing how everything works. I think the website would be much better of using some standards and not self invented things. For instance, that button to send a message, why design your own when it’s not clear what it does?

Than my next problem occured, while clicking the view on flickr button suddenly in the newly opened tab I’m autoscrolled to the bottom, nothing helps, it keeps autoscrolling back down. Only after clicking in the textfield of the initial tab everything stopped autoscrolling.

Don’t get me wrong, I know how hard it is to create a design that works for the user, I learn about it at school and see how much things can go wrong. I hope I’m not offending somebody here, but that’s just the way I feel about photophlow right now. Perhaps next time I’ll try again and get more used to everything.

For me there is nothing worse than hearing/reading a negative put down followed by critique. If it suxs, why offer reason for improvement? However, if the person critiquing my photo implies that I have potential, if only I had tried something different, I’m much more prepared to listen and take on board the advice.

After all, a structured, honest, positive critique means much more to me in terms of improving my methods than a dis on my creative output ever will.

This reeks of the mutual backpatting social mores that are so endemic on Flickr. If you don’t like something, say so, FFS! Sure, it’s nice to get comments saying how wonderful a photo is, or how pretty the clouds/bokeh/models/lines/foo are, but it doesn’t actually help anyone become a better photographer, IMHO. I’d rather have “this sucks because of XYZ” comments. They actually have some potential to help me improve my craft.