Here is a list of the most important features lacking from zooomr and makes me keep my flickr account. (Hmm! maybe the title should be “Zooomr drawbacks?”)
- Recent activity does not allow you to see comments you’ve made in photos of other users. When you make a comment in somebody else’s photo it is all good but then you navigate somewhere else and forget about it. Come on guys I thought you like to build a community around zooomr. You can not do that without this feature. I am not leaving comments anymore because I can not possibly keep track of the comments and I will never find out the response of the photographers.
- Who calls you a contact, this is also crucial for building a community.
- In the photo page, when clicking on a tag, should bring you to photos belong to that user and not in ALL tagged photos of zooomr. The only way to view photos belong to a user and marked with a tag is through smart sets. However, every time I use smart sets I need to go through a significant amount of clicks and typing there NOT usable.
- Cascading tags. i.e. give me all photos tagged with both “glasgow” and “bars”. if I select the tag “glasgow” it will give me buildings bridges and etc., while if I slect tag “bars” it will give me all bars on earth. How I get both? Through smart sets of cource (10 clicks again!).
- List of my trackbacks. I would like to know trackbacks in my photos without having to go through ALL my photostream. This way I discover trackbacks that interest me, not like the Discover->Trackbacks which most of the time is irrelevant. The discover thingy is fine but I need to see trackbacks of MY photos.
These features are pretty easy to do but I guess developers do not bother to implement them.
A more difficult feature however is GROUPS=COMMUNITIES
What do you think? Do you find other things frustrating enough in zooomr, to keep your flickr a/c?
2 responses so far ↓
1 Taavi // Nov 12, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Hi. I’m pretty sure Kristopher is aware of these weaknesses, and I’m also quite confident that most of these will be included in the feature update of ZGroups. I personally have also been annoyed by these problems and also made a request for some of them. The cascading tags thing is actually there. It works by separating tags with commas. It is a bit…untrustworthy though. Sometimes it works when there is a space after the comma, sometimes it only works without a gap. Or don’t bother with the commas at all, it seems to work that way too (I don’t really get the system, bottom line - it’s there). Don’t bother with the bars in Glasgow, there ain’t any apparently :/ You can try for example “nature, dog” (without quotes). Don’t mind Mister X’s irrelevant photos, he is a “tag spammer”. To sum up, yes, there are stuff that might frustrate one in Zooomr, but I like where Zooomr is going. As you said, they are pretty easy things to do, and probably will get done soon. (Darn, my comment is getting too long again, better end it now)
2 Christos // Nov 12, 2006 at 9:23 pm
Well, I really can’t wait for ZGroups to go online, since this will transform zooomr to a community. Thanks for pointing out the ability to cascade tags (the glasgow, bars was just an example!). However, smartsets are a bit unstable, therefore this is half good. For example I did create a smartset with the tag 2006 and owner glasgow (myself) and returned nil results.
Don’t take me wrong I just believe that these dudes are trying and this will be a good photo sharing service one day, but at the moment it is just usable.
Let’s wait for ZGroups.
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