Whilst this certainly sucks, it is just another component of an otherwise all-round sucky design change. Round Avatars but only some of the time? Great, so now Flickr users have the choice of composing their avatars for the square format or the round format, but the latter takes guesswork as the rounded edges are done automatically. One would have imagined entirely changing the composition of millions of users avatars might have rung some alarm bells when redesigning a photography website…
Of course I could continue to bitch, but there are literally hundreds of pages of bitching that has been seemingly entirely ignored on the ‘New Flickr’ beta testing feedback forum Yahoo kindly hosted.
