A good example of why Flickr is doomed: not too many months ago, under Miss Airhead's reign, the geniuses at Flickr made some minor updates to their site, and in the process rendered millions and millions of older versions of Mac OS unable to access photos on Flickr.
Thisis a huuuuuge problem in tech companies, where kids in their 20's, working on brand-new computers, bought by their companies, and running up-to-the-minute OS versions decide that some whiz-bang, cool new feature that will display thumbnails in some neat, new way manages to BREAK the God*****d site's most-basic functionality, which is to SHOW PHOTOS to a wide audience. Hundreds of millions of users, running older computer operating systems, using multiple older variants of web browsers, on two platforms, Win-doze and Mac-in-trash, can not actually SEE the images due to Flickr's system requirements.
The kids running Flickr did this to their site not long ago, utterly, ignorantly unaware that whatever minor benefit they brought to Flickr, the minimum system requirements they've set have locked out hundred of millions of computers from even being able to SEE an image properly on Flickr.
A photo uploading and sharing site that locks out 2012 Mac OS computers, and that locks out the millions upon millions of older, company-owned Internet Explorer computers...this is the kind of moronic short-sightedness that afflicts companies filled with 20- and 30-something developers and managers who have $4,000 workstation computers, and who have no f****g idea of what the real world of computing is filled with: older OS variants, and older browsers. The priority is NOT cool new display of thumbnails and clever web page tricks, but uploading and sharing photos by a hugely diverse universe of actual com-pu-ter set-ups, used by r-e-a-l people.
There are still huge numbers of company and personal computers that can NOT SEE properly, any image on Flickr. Miss Airhead cannot manage a company because she has not a clue about how the real world accesses the web. Flickr's idiot managers have willingly set the minimum access requirements too high, too modern, too restrictive.
