Not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing, because it doesn't work at all in Safari on my iPad running iOS 5.1.1, in either portrait or landscape orientation.
Third-party browsers cannot do core things like implement their own JavaScript engine (which is why you're not going to see Firefox or Chrome for iOS unless Apple changes the rules).
Maybe they simply don't consider it profitable enough?
Flickr's done a remarkably bad job with taking advantage of the exploding popularity of mobile photography. The iPhone is the most-used camera on Flickr, yet their iOS app is mediocre. Instagram ate their lunch and they don't even seem to care.
If they'd innovated when they really were at the peak of photo sharing (2007 maybe), then they could have easily captured those markets. As it is, nothing about flickr has changed in 5 years. That's a generation in internet terms. I couldn't find an exact number, but any user of Facebook knows that they've had at least 3 or 4 major facelifts in that time, along with a number of smaller component changes.
Flickr had the market, but was killed by a lack of innovation. In the vein of many tech acquisitions, it was probably caused by politics.
It's a bit cynical, but as a Flickr user I'm somewhat happy that it's stayed the same over the past 5 years, because I'd give it a 90% chance that if Yahoo had initiated a major overhall, they would've screwed up something major that I liked/used.
You've summed up the alternatives pretty well. I wanted to move from Flickr to 500px, but I feel like my Hipstamatic snapshots simply don't belong there, considering the caliber of talent on display there. I ended up settling for Instagram, even though I'm not too big on it.
Agreed. Sites like Tumblr and Twitter are mostly full of people reblogging and retweeting other people's posts, and the source posts are often things that have been posted before. Many Internet users have short memories, and even shorter attention spans.
The Internet is increasing full of people linking to content, instead of creating it, and there's a fine line between "curating" links and simply spamming them.
