Anyone notice that Flickr is working poorly?

[markjwyatt]

Lousy performance today. Picture comes up, but it struggles getting all the other stuff (stats, groups, albums, info, etc.)

 

[jamesmck]

Now it doesn't allow me to enter! Ask me a mail and a pw I do not have! And any move I do it starts a loop with the same two or three pages, enter with yahoo, it seems you are entering with an yahoo account use your flickr mail etc etc etc...

You may be getting an older version of the Flickr opening page. If using Windows, try a forced reset while at the homepage (CTRL+F5) and then try to sign in.

 

[markjwyatt]

back to normal again...

 

[Godfrey]

Lousy performance today. Picture comes up, but it struggles getting all the other stuff (stats, groups, albums, info, etc.)

back to normal again...

Yes. I conjecture that they did a server reconfiguration today and, while these things should work without shutting the systems down, they often have side-effects on performance and addressing issues until they're all done.

Performance is back to normal now so it was just a couple of hours of annoyance. I went for a walk. 😀

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[charjohncarter]

I still have a slowness problem with some on choices.

 

[Highway 61]

The problem might be that I don't understand computer speak.

Tools\Options page. What is that?

Tools\Plugins pages. I admit that I've never seen them. I don't know were they are.

Flash sourcecode. I didn't know that something with this name exists in our Christian world.

Plug-ins. What are they? I really don't know.

Data mash-up. That must be really disastrous.

Erik.

Click on "Tools" in the toolbar menu (top of your screen) then click on "Options".
The same, "Tools" then "Plugins".

Plugins are small secondary softwares embedded inside your Firefox and which help the browser to display the websites material. Without them most of the websites material wouldn't display on your screen.
Flash is a language used by many websites to display their interactive material. Flickr is no exception.

Any computer language has a sourcecode. For instance on Flickr : display a picture from someone's gallery by clicking on the "Share" button and chose the picture display size. Then, click in the middle of this picture with the right button of your mouse. In the further dialog box chose "Display the page sourcecode". You will see it.

This method allows you to download a picture the size you want even when the gallery owner has disabled the dowloading option for his/her pictures (somewhere in the page there is a line beginning by "<img src=.......>"), but this is another point.

"Data mash-up" is an expression of my own, I may have been a bit opaque there indeed (remember, English is not my mother tongue). Well, when you think of what is used to make a webpage display on your screen with all its interactive material, think of a good minestrone soup gently boiling under the cover of a cooking-pot and you have an idea of what's behind.

 

[Erik van Straten]

Thank you, Nicolas, I will try to remember all this.


Today the Flickr Support Hero send me the following mail:


"Please click on the 3 horizontal lines you see on the top right of the browser window, then click Help then click Restart with Ad-ons Disabled then head to Flickr.com and let me know if you experience the same issue."


And it worked. For a few minutes. Then Flickr was on Firefox back again to total inertia.


Erik.

 

[Highway 61]

So it seems that something is wrong with either the plugins or the ad-ons of your Firefox. You need to look at all of them manually.

Tools->Plugins from the toolbar menu will lead you to the configuration page of the plugins. Then in the left column of this page you will click on Ad-ons and this will open the configuration page of the ad-ons.

Ad-ons and plugins are different things. Plugins are added automatically by Firefox (sort of). Ad-ons are third party sofwares which help a Firefox user to get rid of some annoyances (commercial ads, useless warnings about cookies, false-true warnings about viruses, etc).

Could be that Shockwave or Java plugins just need to be updated, or some ad-ons to be disabled or deleted.

 

[robert blu]

You may be getting an older version of the Flickr opening page. If using Windows, try a forced reset while at the homepage (CTRL+F5) and then try to sign in.

Thanks for your suggestion but in doesn't work. Flickr continuously ask me a mail address and a pw I do not have or better I never registered with them. Until a few weeks ago before a long journey during which I never entered flickr I could enter with my yahoo credentials.

Something changed in the meantime...if I try it it ask me to enter with the new Flickr credential which I have not! As alternative they propose to enter with the yahoo credentials but when I do that again they ask me to enter the flickr credentials...it s continues loop.

Sent messages to the help center without any answer.

Let's see what will happen in the next days...

 

[Highway 61]

...if I try it it ask me to enter with the new Flickr credential which I have not! As alternative they propose to enter with the yahoo credentials but when I do that again they ask me to enter the flickr credentials...it s continues loop.

You may try to fully manually erase the data stored by your browser :

- cache
- cookies
- search history
- dowloads history
- website preferences
- active connexions
- offline data,

and try to log in again. Then you may try to click directly on "Forgotten password" in their login dialog box once you've entered your email ID, before you try to enter your old Yahoo PW. You should receive a link by email so that you can create a new password which will work through their new login system.

 

[raydm6]

Just reporting in... ...working lightning fast for me today.

 

[Erik van Straten]

I removed the Ad Blocker on Firefox and Flickr seems to work nicely now. But who will block the ads instead?

Leica M3, Summicron 50mm f/2 v4, 400-2TMY, printed on Adox MCC 110.

Erik.

 

[Highway 61]

I removed the Ad Blocker on Firefox and Flickr seems to work nicely now. But who will block the ads instead?

There are many different Firefox ad-ons for blocking ads. This one should not interfere badly with Flickr :

https://getadblock.com/

 

[Erik van Straten]

OK, Nicolas. I'll try it, thanks!


Erik.

 

[olifaunt]

I removed the Ad Blocker on Firefox and Flickr seems to work nicely now. But who will block the ads instead?

I'm using Adblock Plus. At some point I turned it off the Flickr site only (i.e., I whitelisted Flickr).

 

[robert blu]

I can access now, it seems it works now on my Mac on Safari. Crossing fingers!
Not sure what I did, spent so much time in front of the computer and followed suggestions from Highway61, including erasing stored infos in various places (cache, etc etc) not so easy for me and my Mac !

I have not many photos on flickr, I have more in my gallery here on RFF but it was very disturbing for me not to be able to do something I could do until a few weeks ago!

Thanks for the help.

robert

 

[Austintatious]

I was shocked !

I was shocked !

I have been a Flickr Pro account holder for many years now. I understand that they have new ownership and management, but I do not recall reading anywhere that the rates for a Pro account were going to DOUBLE ! :bang:
I am sorry, but I do not get $50 worth of use per year from Flickr.
Was anyone here informed that they were going to charge so much ?

 

[Out to Lunch]

Was anyone here informed that they were going to charge so much ?

Errr....Yes, more than once. If not good for you, just migrate your +1,000 pics elsewhere and maintain a free account for your -1,000 pics account.

 

[Erik van Straten]

I'm using Adblock Plus. At some point I turned it off the Flickr site only (i.e., I whitelisted Flickr).

Mmm. The difference will be the "Plus", I had the normal Adblocker. Now I do not have it anymore, there is no difference. I think that after all those years the advertisers know that no money can be made from me.


Erik.

 

[olifaunt]

Mmm. The difference will be the "Plus", I had the normal Adblocker. Now I do not have it anymore, there is no difference. I think that after all those years the advertisers know that no money can be made from me.


Erik.

Yeah let's not speak too loudly for fear of jinxing a good thing but Flickr doesn't have ads (except here and there for Flickr itself).