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?
