Flickr's new 3.0 version of Uploadr is very timely. I was just about to tear my hair out and/or write an entry complaining about the previous versions. First, the Windows and Mac versions were as different as I've ever seen. Second, on the Mac version you could drag a photo into a certain spot in the sequence being uploaded, but once it was there it could not be moved. You'd have to remove all the photos from that one on and start over. If you were uploading a large number of photos and cared about the ordering, this was a nightmare. Third, yesterday I uploaded about 80MB worth of photos. Afterward, Uploadr was using 535MB of memory. When did it become acceptable for applications to use as much as memory as they can get their grubby paws on?

Update: not looking great for the new version so far. On the upside, it looks consistent between Mac and Windows. On the downside, I just tried to drag in 86 photos at once, and I've had nothing but 86 pairs of red and blue dots orbiting each other for the past 20 minutes. Restarting the software has no effect; the photos, in blank dot form, remain.

Update: still no luck with the Mac. I uploaded my photos from my PC, but with a bit more perspective, this new version leaves much to be desired. Namely: you have two choices for sorting the photos, by the date the picture was taken, or your own custom order. But the former can only be done with the newest photos first. You can't reverse the sort! This is such a basic feature that it boggles the mind that they didn't include it. Reversing a list is a task that was made for an algorithm. If you want the photos in forward chronological order, you have to first put in two of them, then change the order so it goes into custom sort mode and won't automatically sort them the wrong way, then drag in the rest one by one. I'm sure this has already been discussed thoroughly on the Flickr's own forums, I just needed to vent. Also: once you've added tags to a batch of photos, you can't delete them by batch. If you made a typo, you have to fix them one by one. Or you could simply remove them all and then add them again--one by one. I guess the Flickr guys just don't specialize in installable software. Do they really not have the resources to make this a decent program?