Okay, no I don’t, exactly, but why the hell they had to give display options to people who oughtn’t have them, I don’t know. The default is three small photos across the page, and sets/groups/whatever (I forget) to one side of the page. I turned off the sets/groups/whatever because I don’t like the clutter, but left it at three small images. Why? Well, because even with a resolution of 2720×1024, the small images are large enough for me to see whether the shot is interesting enough that I want to click and go to the photo page, and most people will be using a slightly lower resolution. There is, however, another option; you can have one medium-sized image across the page (with or without sets/groups/whatever on the right), and I abso-fucking-lutely hate that! My page has 3×6, so without too much scrolling, and no clicking at all, viewers can see 18 photos and decide whether they want to investigate further. A few of my contacts, though, have chosen the “medium image” option. That means that I can see only five photos on the front page, and if I want to look at more, I have to scroll to the bottom and click through to the second page. I hate that, and especially in the case of a couple of them who take 66453973 photos of the cat (how many times can I be expected to look at the same goddamned cat!?), or flowers in the garden. Yes, the cat is pretty (for a cat) and yes, the flowers are pretty, but Jesus Christ, give me some options! S., for instance. He’s a nice guy, but as of this moment, there are five photos on his front page. Four of them are the cat. Yes, the same cat as always. The other one is orange leaves on a maple tree (wow, like I’ve never seen a photo of that before…yawn, stretch), and if I want to see the interesting (and nicely composed) shot of a path at Kullaberg, I have to click through another page. If he wasn’t a nice guy, I wouldn’t fucking bother because it annoys me.

Something else that annoys me and has nothing to do with Flickr’s options is when people say, “Please view large” or “View large on black”. Fuck…off. If I want to view it large, I will, and nothing you say is going to change my mind, so STFU and let me choose. You know…leave the choice up to one of the viewers for whom you put the goddamned photos up in the first place. “View large on black” annoys me, too; why the hell would I bother to make another click? If you think it looks better on black, well, that’s just grand. I’m happy for you. I might even agree with you, but your “helpful suggestion” has ensured that I wouldn’t look at it on black if someone held a fucking gun to my head. I use Flickr Shades in the first place because the white background hurts my eyes, and I could even change the background colour for all pages to black…but I won’t. I won’t because I want it grey, and also because you don’t tell me what I should see. I’ll look at what I want, when I want, how I want. View on black. Heh. You’re lucky I haven’t changed the default page colour to screaming-jesus pink.

Okay, I’m sufficiently annoyed to begin my Monday. Oh yeah…and so I won’t forget, V.’s birthday is tomorrow.