Anyone notice that Flickr is working poorly?

I pretty much do not update my Android apps -- "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." But, yesterday, I had to update Flickr, in order to log in with my new Flickr (not Yahoo) login. As I suspected, the old app version just was not set up for the Flickr login. So... the new version of the app does not have access to Stats, which I do enjoy looking at, occasionally.


Yes, Flickr, generally, has been pretty spotty, for a few months.
 
The app loads only some photos in the stream, the other stay blank and reloading makes no difference, so I can’t see pics of people I follow and vice versa.

Some variant of the stream being down has been happening for many months and is getting worse. It is discouraging me and many others from posting photos. They are either really trying to destroy this as a social medium or maybe coming from Smugmug they just don’t understand social media.

Who’s still happy Smugmug took over? I just knew this would happen.
 
Yes it is once more behaving like sh*t for me - mainly partially loading pages then giving up - effectively making it impossible to use Flickr. Its reminds me of and is almost like rolling blackouts with electricity supply when demand exceeds supply due to poor infrastructure and blackouts are programmed across different geographic areas on a regular rolling basis rather than the infrastructure being upgraded to fix the problem. In this case there are not many options here - either Flickr's servers are not coping with demand or its bandwidth is insufficient- either will cause a chokepoint. In either event it is up to SmugMug to fix it if they want to keep their business intact. Though as others have said they may not as it competes with their main platform. So maybe this is their plan - buy the opposition, kill it by letting it wither on the vine, and entice the membership to come to your existing alternative platform............................

I have been a pro member ever since Flickr brought in pro membership. Last year they doubled the annual fee (despite the previous owners promising never to do so, which of course is no longer enforceable). I can wear an increased fee if the service is good but under the present ownership the service has declined to the point where I am beginning to look at alternative hosting sites - something I would never have countenanced before.

Sad but if SmugMug are not interested the neither am I. (And my new supplier of hosting WILL NOT be SmugMug for obvious reasons as it seems they are responsible either buy their actions or by their inaction for this issue.
 
peterm1 said:
Yes it is once more behaving like sh*t for me - mainly partially loading pages then giving up - effectively making it impossible to use Flickr. Its reminds me of and is almost like rolling blackouts with electricity supply when demand exceeds supply due to poor infrastructure and blackouts are programmed across different geographic areas on a regular rolling basis rather than the infrastructure being upgraded to fix the problem. In this case there are not many options here - either Flickr's servers are not coping with demand or its bandwidth is insufficient- either will cause a chokepoint. In either event it is up to SmugMug to fix it if they want to keep their business intact. Though as others have said they may not as it competes with their main platform. So maybe this is their plan - buy the opposition, kill it by letting it wither on the vine, and entice the membership to come to your existing alternative platform............................

I have been a pro member ever since Flickr brought in pro membership. Last year they doubled the annual fee (despite the previous owners promising never to do so, which of course is no longer enforceable). I can wear an increased fee if the service is good but under the present ownership the service has declined to the point where I am beginning to look at alternative hosting sites - something I would never have countenanced before.

Sad but if SmugMug are not interested the neither am I. (And my new supplier of hosting WILL NOT be SmugMug for obvious reasons as it seems they are responsible either buy their actions or by their inaction for this issue.
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Yes ... rubbish again today!
 
It was acting up earlier, but was responsive again just a minute ago. It's been so long since I looked. What other options besides Smugmug and Instagram, which I have but hate, are out there for displaying work that gets anywhere near the traffic of Flickr? There may be plenty of such outlets; I just don't know about them.
 
Honestly, I stopped using it several years ago and allowed my membership to lapse. The biggest thing was the 'infinite scroll' feature breaking, where pages seemed to stop corresponding to any meaningful order of images. It made finding something to share next to impossible. Very well could have been an issue at my end, but it seemed to be even worse on mobile. Similar issues abound when Yahoo took over Tumblr.

Doesn't sound like I'm missing out too much these days.
 
I think they are making some heavy duty changes to the system, as it has been hanging sometimes depending on what Server Farm the images are coming from. Like first it was hanging on Farm 6, then Farm 9, and so on. Or it would load a photo for view, but the tool bar along the bottom would not go away.


Anyway, it's likely to clear up soon, though I hate to hear Upload isn't working for you Ko Fe. I haven't tried that since early this morning (it was fine then).


PF
 
Yesterday, I had errors with Organize. When trying to load the page, it returned: There was an error: TypeError: F.eb_add is not a function. Others seemed to have encountered the same error, but they seemed to have resolved it in fairly short order.

For whatever it's worth, there's an official Flickr system status page here:
https://status.flickr.net/

From this help thread:
https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157708313747584/
 
ChipMcD said:
It was acting up earlier, but was responsive again just a minute ago. It's been so long since I looked. What other options besides Smugmug and Instagram, which I have but hate, are out there for displaying work that gets anywhere near the traffic of Flickr? There may be plenty of such outlets; I just don't know about them.
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Here you go

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_image-sharing_websites

Instagram is the only game in town sadly. Making Instagram the shop window to your own website is probably the best you can do.
 
As a satisfied Flickr user -no problems in Vietnam, I wonder if those who are experiences problems have notified Flickr/checked on the site what the cause of these problems may be?
 
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