Comments on: Flickery: Flickr on Your Desktop

By: tk

tk — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:41:18 +0000

Buggiest piece of software I’ve worked with in a long time. Some bugs clearly show there very little quality control being done, nd once one starts digging a little deeper, it uncovers quite a mess.

However, if it was doing everything that it’s supposed to do, it would be a highly functional app with a great interface.

The clean interface tricked me into buying it, which I now regret doing.

Examples:
- batch change permission on a few pictures crashed the app. When I restarted it had lost the photosets I just added (bad database management). I tried to refresh the sets list, but it gave a really lame message about being able to reload only once an hour.
- uploading several movies was giving me negative upload percentages
- not possible to upload to a set?? One has to wait for the upload to finish, to then manually add photos to sets.

By: john

john — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:36:57 +0000

I have been using Flickery for just under a week and find it a good app.

By: Elvin

Elvin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:01:48 +0000

I would like to have something similar to this for viewing youtube video’s. I have searched but I’ve never found anything good, or good looking. Does anyone know something like this?

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:59:32 +0000

Does anyone know any flicker app that just simply display flicker pictures on your desktop? I would like to have a random picture from a certain flicker group show for a certain amount of time. It would look sexy ^^

By: spiritualized

spiritualized — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:48:42 +0000

Flickery is ok, but when using it u loose the ability to wander around the pictures, notice something, you have to press a button to open comments etc. etc.
And also, lack of auto refresh, I have to every time manually open my friends list
It is nice, but never really got to use it more then few minutes, hope they either upgrade or someone else does something that really replaces flickr’s online usability and features
for me the result would be 4/10

By: Positron

Positron — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:54:34 +0000

I don’t really like Flickr’s GUI, so this app is just for me!!

Thanks for the recommendation :)

By: SomeOtherGuy

SomeOtherGuy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:22:07 +0000

I’ve been using flickery since its beta days and I’ve been nothing but satisfied with and thankful for it.
The best flickr client I’ve used by far.

By: Mark Sinkinson

Mark Sinkinson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:43:17 +0000

The Flickr website is a horrific mess, I can only agree with you there.

I actually really liked the design, and Photonic had a relatively similar look and feel to it

By: Andrés David

Andrés David — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:39:13 +0000

I’ve been using 1001 for a while and, even if it has its quirks, I think is a good inexpensive alternative:

http://infinite-sushi.com/software/1001/

By: Benjamin Reid

Benjamin Reid — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:32:37 +0000

This app seems pretty nice, despite the bugs. I don’t get on with the Flickr website so well, it works fine, I’m just not a fan of the design. So this may be a consideration.

The sharing and image editing seems a nice touch but I think the bugs and pricetag outway the cons that I’ve got with the Flickr website.

Maybe if the price tag was lower (say $10 as I can do this for free without too much hassle on the web) and the bugs were fixed then it’d be a yes.

Are there any alternatives?