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I have to agree with you. I only post my "Art" photography on flickr and all the people I follow do the same. Seeing this huge mashup of all the varying styles and works together is really terrible. It's just not a nice way of presenting photography.


Works well for travel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/terretta/

But poorly for featured photos with no relationship to one another. This set is generated based on Fickr's "Interestingness" algorithm:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/terretta/sets/72157594261074270...

The relative prominence of these machine selected photos is clearly not associated with artistic quality or visual impact.

I would think Flickr of all sites has enough data to do a visual impact based layout even on photos with zero views and no metadata.

That would have really impressed me. Otherwise, these new masonry layouts are just trendiness mistakenly misallocating artistic emphasis.




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