Speed kills, more appropriately, lack of speed kills my desire to load a web page. Flickr is one of those self proclaimed web 2.0 web sites that everyone seems to use for their photo hosting. I think the site is great, lots of features and a large active community. My only real gripe with the site is the fact that’ it’s so slow it’s almost unusable.
Flickr was bought by online media giant yahoo in March of 2005 so it obviously has some serious bank in it’s back pocket for infrastructure upgrades. So what’s the problem yahoo? Flickr has been unusable for several months, yahoo needs to make flickr quickr or users will pickr someplace else to go. With other media companies like google (who seem to have the capacity problem solved) breathing down yahoo’s neck I would figure that they would be on top of these problems.
Oh well, there are lots of other photo sharing sites out there, I’m sure someone will step up.