Anyone notice that Flickr is working poorly?
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sevres_babylone
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In addition to posting my own photos, I admin a ricoh gr street photography group. I am on flickr every day. I have never seen an outage for a full day even. There have been times where I've gotten the bad pandas, but, often though certainly not always, when i immediately reload the site, it works fine.
On more positive notes, in a bout of narcissism I was looking at my own flickr stream on the new big iPad pro at the Apple store and in a bout of vanity was impressed with how good the photos looked on that screen even though I rarely post anything larger thant 1024 pixels wide at 72 psi.
I also like the flickr android mobile app (mostly, I find it hard to navigate directly to some groups I like.)
I agree there should be no downtime, but I do get the sense the new owners are working to improve flickr.
michaelphoto
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Flickr going strong again in Denmark.
Erik van Straten
Veteran
Everything seems to be OK now.
Erik.
Erik.
robert blu
quiet photographer
A few problems in the afternoon but it seems ok now
robert
robert
olifaunt
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There was an outage of the activity stream some weeks ago where you would still see older posts but no new photos appeared for about 24h or so in many parts of the world including Northeast U.S. In other words, no new photos of people you followed appeared during that time, and while you could post a photo, nobody following you would see it in their stream and the photo wouldn't get any likes. Since the activity stream is most people's main interface to Flickr, that amounts to an outage. It's analogous to Facebook or Twitter being down. Shorter outages of that type have occurred since - you wouldn't necessarily notice that it's been down 2 hours unless you check the timestamps of the most recent updates (or see no new posts for a while).
Today's bad panda was a different kind of outage but came down to the same thing. It lasted most of the morning for me.
The outage on mobile push notifications has lasted for at least a week already. Staff has completely, Olympically ignored the very long user complaint threat on notifications on the support site.
They really do actively seem to be trying to antagonize users, by sending out their snippy user agreement emails almost always coordinated with technical problems.
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DHK
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I’ve had a Flickr for probably 10 years. I’m leaving (or at least not uploading anymore) because of they’re new limit. Why pay?
sevres_babylone
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Sorry, I wasn't aware of these. I can see the reasons for your concern and frustration.
dmr
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I got that yesterday morning when trying to view a Flickr link from a post here.
It was working in mid afternoon, CST.
It was working in mid afternoon, CST.
ebolton
Number 7614
I haven't been affected by any of the outages, but the basic design of this iteration of Flickr irritates me. When I pick a photo to examine, I have to click it again to get the full description (or caption). That's not the way I like to view, but I could live with that. What irritates me highly is when I back out of that picture to resume scanning my feed, it dumps me all the way back to the top, so I have to pass thru all the shots I already went through. I really don't like that architecture.
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dmr
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One thing I just noticed this morning. It seems to be slow(er) loading ALL of the photos on a page. When I first view a page, 2-3 of the photos are white/blank. Some of them fill in eventually but a couple of times I reloaded to get them all.
Out to Lunch
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In Vietnam, yesterday was bad but today Flickr is back without interruptions. I suppose they are busy weeding out the non-pro +1000 pic members.
John Lawrence
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Working fine for me in the UK today.
John
John
cz23
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I'm one of those sub-1K users. Yesterday I deleted 600 images to keep my free status. The delete ran a long time, so maybe cheapskates like me are what's slowing down the rest of you.
John
kiemchacsu
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I deleted some of my photos to keep Flickr stream at 1000 photos. I won't delete more but no more updates there, instead of my Instagram
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cz23
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Your Instagram is very nice. So how will you post to RFF if your Flickr is full? Forum posting is the only reason I keep Flickr.
John
kiemchacsu
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I use this website https://downloadgram.com/
Then copy image url and embed to RFf, of course it is not straightforward as Flickr but still manageable.
You can check latest uploads in my Hanoi thread, link in signature
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Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
No Pandas pooled bad on my screen.
But I'm finding it to be harder and harder to browse on images from good people I follow.
It is mess. I prefer classic RFF and other forums layout/view.
I'm also not sure if it is my eyes or they degraded image quality.
But I'm finding it to be harder and harder to browse on images from good people I follow.
It is mess. I prefer classic RFF and other forums layout/view.
I'm also not sure if it is my eyes or they degraded image quality.
bcostin
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Yes. I've seen a few of the "Bad Panda" errors. And I've gotten an error when doing an export from Lightroom. But more often the site's been hanging and not fully rendering when loading a page or when navigating to a new page. I've had to close the tab and start over a few times.
I suspect that the new owners are making some back-end changes and migrating the data to new hosting arrangements, and we're seeing some side effects in dropped sessions and timeouts. Yahoo had neglected flickr for a very long time, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a LOT of deferred maintenance and updates to catch up on. It's nearly impossible to do that sort of work without some glitches. If it gets worse instead of better then it might be a sign of deeper issues.
I suspect that the new owners are making some back-end changes and migrating the data to new hosting arrangements, and we're seeing some side effects in dropped sessions and timeouts. Yahoo had neglected flickr for a very long time, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a LOT of deferred maintenance and updates to catch up on. It's nearly impossible to do that sort of work without some glitches. If it gets worse instead of better then it might be a sign of deeper issues.
dmr
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I'm getting regular pop-ups saying I am close to the 1000 limit (I am) and it gives two options, "Go Pro" and "Remind Me Later", no "X" in the corner to dismiss or "No Thanks" or anything like that.
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