Anyone notice that Flickr is working poorly?

farlymac said:
Well, the Mobile App still isn't working, despite what they reported.

PF
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I had to clear the cache and app data and then re-login, but now it works for me. A little slower than normal, and some features (like Camera Roll) are still disabled, but I'm able to browse photos. Using the latest version of Android 9 on a Google Pixel 2.
 
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Geez, everybody, they’re working on it. Am reminded of those parties of 8 that sit down at a restaurant table that hasn't been bussed yet from the prior diners and are perplexed and outraged that the silverware isn’t clean and the glasses are only half full, and start waving their hands and demanding to see the manager, while writing negative Yelp reviews on their phones.

Give it a rest. In a week or so it might likely be fine, check back then. In the meantime, go out and shoot some pix so that you’ll have something to load when they are finished working on it, which they obviously aren’t. If it’s not fine then, drop them an email with a specific question about your concerns; they do respond eventually.

In the meantime, it’s okay to complain about my Pollyanna-ish post, if that would help.
 
Larry Cloetta said:
Geez, everybody, they’re working on it. Am reminded of those parties of 8 that sit down at a restaurant table that hasn't been bussed yet from the prior diners and are perplexed and outraged that the silverware isn’t clean and the glasses are only half full, and start waving their hands and demanding to see the manager, while writing negative Yelp reviews on their phones.
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Except you analogy breaks down completely if you look at the length of this thread and look at the dates. They have been "working on it" for many months of ever deteriorating performance, which predates even this thread by a number of more months.
 
I have just "lost" 350,000 off my view count in the stats page................I was at just under 1.8 million views, edging up to 2 million. Today the count is 1.46 million. What the hell is going on?
 
olifaunt said:
Except you analogy breaks down completely if you look at the length of this thread and look at the dates. They have been "working on it" for many months of ever deteriorating performance, which predates even this thread by a number of more months.
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I guess I showed up uninvited to the pity party.

I have looked at the thread from its inception, and posted something about the previous area of conversation early on. There were longstanding issues with flickr prior to the new owners assuming operations. They have been endeavoring to address those, and more, from that time, and were quite upfront about the fact that addressing those issues and creating a stable, useful platform was going to take some time, and that some things would likely get worse in the process, temporarily.
The transfer, which is what people are talking about now, and which is what I was also talking about, only occurred a few days ago.

The air of doom and what seem like personal emotional wounds from textbook first world problems like “uploader is glitchy” (“l can’t take it any more!”) which a small few here have expressed about a commercial endeavor, an app, whose cost ranges from free all the way up to inexpensive, people stamping their feet because there are software glitches...oh no!...which are occurring in middle of what is probably a massive IT task, that’s what I was referring to with the analogy.

The future is unknown, I’m just personally betting Flickr will be fine once they are finished. It’s already faster, for me at least. Smugmug is pretty seamless, and they run that, so they at least know what a decent user experience looks like. Flickr was always going to be a bigger challenge, but I’d guess they’ll get there. Short of a conspiracy theory, there is no reason to think they won’t. People are free to assume they won’t, and some seem to assume just that for some reason known to them, but anxiety in the middle of a large data transfer is premature.

Seems to me anyway.

There’s always Photobucket as a good free alternative. Oh, wait.
 
Larry Cloetta said:
I guess I showed up uninvited to the pity party.

I have looked at the thread from its inception, and posted something about the previous area of conversation early on. There were longstanding issues with flickr prior to the new owners assuming operations. They have been endeavoring to address those, and more, from that time, and were quite upfront about the fact that addressing those issues and creating a stable, useful platform was going to take some time, and that some things would likely get worse in the process, temporarily.
The transfer, which is what people are talking about now, and which is what I was also talking about, only occurred a few days ago.

The air of doom and what seem like personal emotional wounds from textbook first world problems like “uploader is glitchy” (“l can’t take it any more!”) which a small few here have expressed about a commercial endeavor, an app, whose cost ranges from free all the way up to inexpensive, people stamping their feet because there are software glitches...oh no!...which are occurring in middle of what is probably a massive IT task, that’s what I was referring to with the analogy.

The future is unknown, I’m just personally betting Flickr will be fine once they are finished. It’s already faster, for me at least. Smugmug is pretty seamless, and they run that, so they at least know what a decent user experience looks like. Flickr was always going to be a bigger challenge, but I’d guess they’ll get there. Short of a conspiracy theory, there is no reason to think they won’t. People are free to assume they won’t, and some seem to assume just that for some reason known to them, but anxiety in the middle of a large data transfer is premature.

Seems to me anyway.

There’s always Photobucket as a good free alternative. Oh, wait.
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It's human nature to b***h and moan when things don't go right in the world of photography image storage services. Perhaps you don't realize some folks use Flickr to get their work to the client, or at least as a clearing house for client approval before delivery. They have every right to complain when updates take too long, they're losing money every day their images are in limbo.


For the rest of us, we've been through the fire drill many times already, and can't fathom why the same problems show up every time, like the IT team didn't look at previous iterations to see what went wrong, and failed to make plans to alleviate those issues. It's always such a shock to them that something went wrong!


And when you can't get reports from Flickr as to how the update is going, it's nice to come here to see what other peoples experiences are so one can make an educated guess as to when it will all be okay. In my experience this time, things that initially worked just fine are now buggy, so clearly the fixes are part of the root problems. It appears that it will be some time before the system settles out, once the IT folks get it in their heads that they didn't think this one through good enough.


PF
 
dourbalistar said:
I had to clear the cache and app data and then re-login, but now it works for me. A little slower than normal, and some features (like Camera Roll) are still disabled, but I'm able to browse photos. Using the latest version of Android on a Pixel 2.
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I was checking it again earlier today, and after initially saying it was still down, on a second try it came up. What I'm getting now though is it shows in my Contacts Feed they have uploaded two photos, but only shows one. This does not affect anyone who posts three photos or more.



I checked the desktop, and only one photo shows there too. Now I don't know if the "two photos" notice is bogus (because it doesn't show on the desktop), or if a second image truly is not being displayed as the two individuals I contacted about it have not responded yet.


Other than that, it seems to be working okay. I have an LG Rebel 4 running Android 8.1.0 on a Tracfone.


PF
 
I am trying to upload a picture. It keeps timing out after about 20 seconds. I tried about 20 times without success.

I pity the poor people who actually got roped into paying for this.
 
Since their last week updates and maintenances my flickr app. for Android doesn't work any longer. I had installed it in 2016 and it used to work fine through the former Yahoo login.

Now I am looking for a reliable flickr app. which will work with both Android 4.3 (my mobile phone is a Sony Xperia M C1905 released in 2015 but it works perfectly well and I see no reason to trash it and buy another one) and their new flickr, with the new login system (which works fine for me on a computer).

Not too sure, whether such a thing exists (I was unlucky at browsing the Play Store etc) but in any case, hints here will be appreciated.
 
Highway 61 said:
Since their last week updates and maintenances my flickr app. for Android doesn't work any longer. I had installed it in 2016 and it used to work fine through the former Yahoo login.

Now I am looking for a reliable flickr app. which will work with both Android 4.3 (my mobile phone is a Sony Xperia M C1905 released in 2015 but it works perfectly well and I see no reason to trash it and buy another one) and their new flickr, with the new login system (which works fine for me on a computer).

Not too sure, whether such a thing exists (I was unlucky at browsing the Play Store etc) but in any case, hints here will be appreciated.
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The Android app problem is known by Flickr. I think I read that they are going to release a new Android app at the beginning of June.
 
Highway 61 said:
Since their last week updates and maintenances my flickr app. for Android doesn't work any longer. I had installed it in 2016 and it used to work fine through the former Yahoo login.

Now I am looking for a reliable flickr app. which will work with both Android 4.3 (my mobile phone is a Sony Xperia M C1905 released in 2015 but it works perfectly well and I see no reason to trash it and buy another one) and their new flickr, with the new login system (which works fine for me on a computer).

Not too sure, whether such a thing exists (I was unlucky at browsing the Play Store etc) but in any case, hints here will be appreciated.
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Highway 61, I had to clear my app cache and app data, you may give that a try if you haven't already. The Flickr blog indicates the old app will work for now, but that they will release a new version around June 1:
https://blog.flickr.net/en/2019/05/08/planned-maintenance-and-flickr-downtime/
 
dourbalistar said:
Highway 61, I had to clear my app cache and app data, you may give that a try if you haven't already. The Flickr blog indicates the old app will work for now, but that they will release a new version around June 1:
https://blog.flickr.net/en/2019/05/08/planned-maintenance-and-flickr-downtime/
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Thank you very much, I have just read what your link points to.

Yet I'm in a dead-end, sort of. Wanting to clear the app cache and app data I uninstalled the app by mistake. And I can't reinstall it even through the archived apps library of my Play account, because my Android version (4.3) doesn't accept the current flickr app the Play library will point to.

If the new app they will release from June 1st onwards can be installed on Android 4.3 and further, good. If it's for Android 4.4 and further, like the app available now, I'll be cooked and for flickr that'll be on a computer only till I get a new smartphone (i.e., when my current one will cease to function)... 🙄
 
Thanks to a mirror downloading website I was able to reinstall the same official flickr app for Android on the same cellphone eventually - great.

Now it's all set up like before : Android 4.3 and v. 4.3.5 of the flickr app.

But : I can't establish the connection - no way, either by clicking on "Connection" or on "Start over". Cleaning the cache etc doesn't help the least bit. I assume that this version of the app is trying to connect to flickr through the former Yahoo gate, which was closed during their last week Pandatime, obviously.

Anyone still successfully running the v. 4.3.5 of the Android app here ?
 
peterm1 said:
I have just "lost" 350,000 off my view count in the stats page................I was at just under 1.8 million views, edging up to 2 million. Today the count is 1.46 million. What the hell is going on?
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Same thing happened to me but on a much more modest level. I went from ca 220k to 187k or so.
 
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