1. I'd like to be able to tag strangers' photos. I don't see why I shouldn't be able to tag something at all; maybe those tags could be given a lower value somehow if they'd interfere with some sort of tagging purity.

I'd also eliminate the "feature" that supposedly keeps you from downloading some people's pictures, so I didn't have to go two seconds out of my way to screen capture them.

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Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by mungojelly

2. get rid of yahoo

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Joe Taylor

3. I use Flickr as a remote backup for all of my full-size photos, so only a small sample are viewable by the general public. It frustrates me that there is no option to toggle between displaying all the photos in my stream and only the photos that the public can see. Logging in and out is an awkward and time consuming method to achive this.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by PDR

4. I want a way to leave a group. I cannot find that feature. Also the ability to organize my groups.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Russell

5. I'd like the option to no longer "watch" photos I've commented on. This is especially true for photos that I commented on several months ago and no longer want to follow. Simply allow an opt-out box for that particular photo. Right now, the only way to get out of "watching" a photo is to remove your comment, which isn't a nice option.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Michael Casey

6. I want the batch operations to be more responsive. I recently wanted to geotag 100 photos in a set. I had groups of 30 or so that had the same location. The only way to tag them is to click every check box with a mouse, then hit apply!
-Perhaps keystrokes a-la gmail would help?
-using ajax for submitting the tags would make the interface feel more responsive.
-The "Organizr" for grouping photos is pretty, but it's really too slow for me. I'd like to click and drag a select-box over the set (like I do when organizing files on my desktop).
-why isn't there a way to batch-add descriptions to photos?
-better search capability. search on title, description, multiple tags, and also negative searching (e.g. not this tag)

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Joshua Aresty

7. Glad your interested. Since you asked.

1. Introduce full screen slide shows. There is nothing quite like the experience of sitting in your living room and watching beautiful photographs float across a 43” plasma. With a soundtrack to your life playing softly in the background, the kids playing on the floor and a nice glass of white burgundy, watching your photos float across the screen is the perfect compliment. As TiVo and Media Center turn your living rooms into virtual photography galleries, Flickr should develop full screen slide shows for users to watch their photostreams, their friends’ photostreams, and the photos you have selected as favorites.

Flickr should also create smart filters that randomly show photos from your contacts or specific lists of contacts that you can build for specific events. Imagine how cool it would be to (announced at upcoming.org or course) put together a flickr meet up at a venue with multiple plasmas. Then take the flickr RSVP list and run their photostreams through a filter and have that filter randomly show their work at the Flickr meetup. Talk about WOW factor.

As part of a full screen slideshow initiative Flickr should definitely build a Media Center plug in specifically. Media Center will hit mainstream adoption next year. Seeing your flickr stream and favorites in full screen mode on your Xbox 360 or Media Center PC would be white hot. In order to do this in a cost efficient way, Flickr would most likely need to move the originals of photos off of Flickr and on to users’ hard drives (high res photos running for 2 days when you forget to turn them off would be very bandwidth intensive). It would be important to protect these files. They should be acknowledged but invisible and inaccessible .jpg files that you CHOOSE to allow on your PC in return for the experience. Microsoft should be able to protect these files with DRM.

2. Provide users sitemeter style tracking information. Part of sharing in the blogosphere means knowing about where the conversations about you are going on. Although Technorati can be used to track some of the external links to your flickr stream, what is needed is a flickr based referral system to track both internal and external links to and from your photostream. This referral information should provide basically the same information that sitemeter does including allowing you the ability to rank your incoming links, etc.

3. Develop a stock photography matchmaking service that Flickr users could opt in to. The top 5% of Flickr’s photography at present is every bit as good as what the pros are turning out at the stock photography houses. Flickr should build a stock photo business that undercuts Getty Images by about 30% and provide a 50/50 split for money raised with their photographers. As most on Flickr are amateurs, they do not have the knowledge or connections to get into the stock photo business. Flickr should provide an easy path (for those that choose this) and provide education about the various issues regarding rights clearance where necessary and should have a department to maintain waivers for rights clearance in cases where images might contain people or businesses.

4. Integrate Flickr’s interestingness algorithm into Yahoo! Image Search. Where applicable, Flickr’s interestingness algorithm is vastly superior to both Google and Yahoo! Image Search. Although Yahoo! And Google Image Search are more complete, where Flickr does have top ranked photos they should incorporate these into the Yahoo! Image search algorithm to appear as first page results. This will promote their Flickr brand and provide a substantially better image search experience for the Yahoo! Image Search User.

5. Build a spellchecker that spell checks all the text on your flickrstream including titles, descriptions and especially tags. Many tags are misspelled at present and giving the option many people would want to correct this.

6. Develop a rewards based incentive program to promote Flickr – especially with top photographers. On each users main home page flickr has the following: “Invite your friends and family. Why? Flickr is so much better when your friends and family are on it. When you log in their new pictures are there, and they automatically see yours.

Indeed. While I’m sure people use this all the time, how about promoting it by creating a simple ranking of the top referrers of others to flickr and reward the top 25 with free flickr pro accounts and build a contest for the number one referrer. This would be the cheapest PR buzz they could ever buy.

7. Increase the speed in three specific areas: when adding your photos to groups, when you pull up the most recent comments made on your photos, and when you search. Not sure what needs to be done here but the speed needs to be improved.

8. Make interestingness the default search vs. most recent photos uploaded. Typically the most recently uploaded photos when you do a search are not that interesting. Why not give people the best photos first and let them use most recent as a back up if they so wish.

9. Allow users to sort their contacts’ photos by interestingness. I’m constantly finding super great photos of my contacts. Many of my contacts have photostreams of over 2,000 photos. I would like the ability to sort my entire list of contacts by how Flickr ranks their photos from an interestingness standpoint. How many new gems would I find? I’m sure many. This would be much more efficient than having to hunt through all of their streams. In addition I should be able to pull up all of my contacts photos ranked by favs and filter out those shots that I have already fav’d. If I’ve fav’d it I’ve seen it and know about it. Help me find the best shots from my contacts that I’ve yet to see.

10. Private favorites. Allow me to privately fav photos where only I and the photographer who is hosting the photo can see it. Many people are hesitant to fav… ummm…. “certain” photos that they would like to go back and view as favorites as everyone else can see what you fav. With full screen slide shows this would also be important. Although you might find a particular edgier photo interesting and want to fav it, you may not want it shown in your living room in front of all of your friends at the next Flickr meet up that you hold at your home. This is one of the reasons why a lot of the edgier work on Flickr has lots and lots of views but a relatively low fav/view ratio.

As originally posted to FlickrNation.com, the home of the FlickrNation podcast.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Thomas Hawk

8. Managing groups is very badly needed.
Comment tracking.
Improvements in adding the photos to the groups.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Manoj NV

9. I think we need a way to keep track of other favorites.

Here is a simple, yet external, way:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrate/discuss/63649/

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Nicolas Hoizey

10. 1) It's getting slow lately. Speed it up.

2) Make storage of original-size images secure.

3) Share royalties for printing with the photo owner.

4) Settable background colors.

5) Add collaborative filtering - TiVo-style thumbs up / thumbs down and personalized suggestion engine.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Jef Poskanzer

11. I'd love to hear from you guys about what we are doing at www.photobucket.com
We are more about direct linking and letting you use your photos anywhere on the net. We have users uploading 3 million images a day. We provide our free users up to 512kb images and 50MB free storage with 2,500MB monthly bandwidth.

btw, our slideshow is full screen...

Thanks,

Photobucket

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Peter

12. I'd like the ability to search within just my contacts. For example, I have a friend named "Spencer." If I search for "Spencer" in everyone's contacts, I get tons of results that are not my friend Spencer. However, if I just search through my Contacts, or specifically my Friends, or Family, I will be much more likely to find pictures of my friend Spencer.

I'd also like Flickr Uploader to let me tag photos differently - right now it adds the same tags to all the photos you upload, meaning I tend not to tag them.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by alicetiara

13. "Other photos taken with this camera" - but hey, I've already posted to http://flickr.com/forums/ideas/

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Joseph

14. PDR: A temporary solution would be to use two different browsers. one in which you are logged in and one in which you aren't. Firefox and Mozilla or Opera.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Benjamin

15. A way to mass change licenses, not just permissions. And a more fluent way to put pictures into Flickr and take them back out again - more than the existing bookmarklet.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Arieanna

16. Allow us to favorite entire sets, not just photos.

Allow us to see other people's most favorited, most commented, most viewed, etc. photos. If there is a privacy concern about this then just make it an option. That is, users can opt into letting others see their photos this way.

What PDR said, but also for pictures shared with just family or friends. That is, allow the user to toggle between a stream of completely private vs friends/family-only vs public photos.

Make the Organizr more user-friendly (what someone else said about being able to move several photos at a time).

Make it easier to rearrange the order of Sets and don't default a new set to the top position.

Show more of the sets on the left-hand side.

Have a separate "New" tag under Groups for groups that have newly added photos. I don't understand the focus on new discussions. Aren't most people more likely to care to check out the new photos than the new discussions?

Make the group search engine much better. It is horribly inefficient in finding relevant groups based on very clear and obvious queries.

Allow different tagging for pictures uploaded at the same time (someone else mentioned this as well).

If you're already logged in to your Yahoo! account (e.g. are on Messenger) then don't require an additional login for Flickr.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by eszter

17. The userinterface could be a lot prettier/userfriendly, especially "My photopage".

This would be the page I use to show my photos to relatives, but it's too complicated for most of them. I would like to be able to create standalone galleries (not a slideshow). I really hate the photostream which only shows thumnails of the next and previous photo.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Gert

18. Faster interface with better load balancing (is it just for me that Flickr grinds to a halt). I'd also like authenticated RSS feeds for accessing Private photos.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Jason

19. Originally posted to the flickr forums (http://www.flickr.com/forums/ideas/18489/):

I have two major features I would love to see flickr impliment.

1) I would like to be able to see the latest photos in my groups on the flickr homepage. This would work exactly like the other right-side photo sets (the latest 4 on the homepage, click in for a page of them).

2) Editable contact types... Specifically, I would like a "coworker" checkbox, and maybe an "adult friend" checkbox. These would obviously carry over into the permissions realm, where I could allow specific photos based on my contact types.

Also, I wish I could add photos to groups via the OSX flickr uploader.

Posted at 2:22PM on May 5th 2006 by grid

20. No bad :)

Posted at 4:44AM on Jul 5th 2006 by Nepomnu