Today we’re launching a couple improvements to the Flickr experience. More views for your contacts recent uploads page and giving you a way to see all the shortcuts with the press of a button.
More views for photos from your contacts
The first part of today’s launch adds a lot of new features to the Recent Uploads from your Contacts page.
- Selectable photo sizes, so that you can view square, small, medium, or
large photos - Keyboard shortcuts, so that you can navigate quickly through pages of
photos - A light box, so that you can enjoy your contacts’ photos large and
uncluttered
Press ? to see keyboard shortcuts
Over the last year, we’ve been hard at work adding keyboard shortcuts to commonly used actions on the site. The photo page redesign alone introduced over a dozen shortcuts to make it easier to do things like navigate through a photostream and add a photo to your faves.
Starting today, you can press the ? key on any Flickr page to see what keyboard shortcuts are available.*
Different shortcuts are available on different pages (i.e. the photo page, a set page, photostream) and we show the shortcuts available for the page you are on. Fancy!
* No need to hold ‘Shift’ when you press ?. Just press it and we’ll give you the guide.
If you have any feedback or have found a bug with the new shortcut guide let us know in the forum.