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CogDog The Blog

An early 90s builder of web stuff and blogging Alan Levine barks at CogDogBlog.com on web storytelling (#ds106 #4life), photography, bending WordPress, and serendipity in the infinite internet river. He thinks it's weird to write about himself in the third person. And he is 100% into the Fediverse (or tells himself so) Tooting as @cogdog@cosocial.ca

Rants

Guess What Kind of Yahoos Are Making the Design Decisions for Flickr?


cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Chris Lott

It’s gotta be monkeys (no offense to the primates) (but I love it when my creative common search turns up an image from a friend, hi Chris).

Seriously– who is Yahoo using as a test group for the “new” flickr? The latest WTF is the insertion of a Yahoo navigation bar that looks like it was hand coded in the mid 1990s.

yucks yuck

On looking at the page source I truly accepted to see a bunch of

....

tags. At least it was not that bad. Maybe there is some humor at Monkey Web Design Shops, since the main div id is named “eyebrow” and the interior divs are all called “yucs”

yucs

Yeah. YUCK- they cannot even spell that correctly.

I was curious to see what the infestation of ads was like, so I hopped over to Safari to explore Flickr when I was logged out or using an old free account I use very rarely. The most odd thing was in Safari there is no Ugly Butt Yahoo Navigation Bar.

Blog Pile

Sheeeeeeeeeeeit… SubToMe!

In reading Stephen Downe’s post on RSS Changeover Day Experiences, my radar got curious from a link in the first comment for SubToMe. It’s for a free code to do what browsers should do, should have done, and never really did- make it easy to subscribe to sites with RSS feeds. As Clay Davis would […]