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Photo sharing site, Flickr is getting a bit of a touchup with the offering from Yahoo that gives Flickr users a new homepage built to enables them put up more images and at the same time let them use Flickr’s social features more efficiently.

The new design is set to have users attention focus more on the social aspects of the service, which include, sharing items with friends and sharing comments and views in discussion boards. This current change would make these features more prominent and give more meaning to Flickr than the usual photo sharing site only.

Stephen Shankland quotes Kakul Srivastava, the new General Manager for Flickr saying:

What we wanted to be able to do is make the home page more engaging, useful, and efficient for advanced users who have hundreds and sometimes thousands of contacts and who upload and log into Flickr several times a day (and for) our newest members who are trying to figure out how to engage with Flickr.

So you get more photos to be displayed on your homepage, including those from your friends and the groups you are a part of. The recent images that being uploaded and the activity tab that shows you new comments on photos of members, notifications of a member being added by others and various other social aspects. Although the new feature isn’t default and users have a choice to opt for it or not; but it is deemed to be the set standard with time.

Yahoo has put up additional features including, the purpose not being to add new features but to put down the number of it is performed on the core features of Flickr. The change is currently with the home page and the layout for pages housing every photograph is planned to be updated as Kakul said:

It’s definitely on our roadmap to improve that page.

With a huge userbase of more than 30 million registered users and 3 billion page views a month, the revamping may very well please its loyal users and have even more flocking in for the image sharing service.