Betabeat’s Adrianne Jeffries is optimistic after sitting down with Flickr product head Markus Spiering and seeing a glimpse of what they’re working on. It sounds like it will be more of a gradual change over the year though, rather than one major revamp.

Three words not nearly mentioned enough: mobile, mobile, mobile. The only part of the story that mentions this says:

But Flickr is reorienting according to Yahoo’s “mobile first” strategy and the design is thoughtful and forward-looking.

That’s far too vague to be promising in any way. But Spiering was a mobile guy in his previous life within Yahoo, so maybe there’s some hope.