Is flickr loading pictures slower recently?

[btgc]

In the last days I've noticed when I open random picture (on black background, info on right) it appears fuzzy, on right appears name of uploader and description, page continues to load (status line shows reading from flickr hosts) and after 5-10sec. image renders sharp and rest of info (comments, info or tags) shows up. My tech stack shouldn't be issue (net, pc, load), yet right now as I check (no restart, no browser clean-up routines), it works noticeably faster than before so I certainly see difference. In fact right now I don't have any complaints but days before it were forcing me to use ipernity to find pictures I were looking using tags. Either they deployed new version of software or scaled hardware, so big difference I see now.

Ipernity just doesn't have this issue (but I have admit I'm rare ipernity user). I wonder if flickr is, were hitting limits of backend, as their user base and upload/request volume should be also be larger. Well, volume isn't only thing that can make impact but still.

 

[Michael Markey]

Yes ...its been the same for me.

 

[css9450]

Same problems here. That, plus the horrible endless scroll.

 

[farlymac]

Yeah, right after they came out and said they were speeding things up. Me thinks they need to fire their IT corps.

PF

 

[btgc]

Dang....after yesterday's fine evening today what I get is

Will be right back...

Thank you for your patience.
Our engineers are working quickly to resolve the issue.

 

[bhop73]

Maybe it's just me, but it seems this always seems to happen when they're about to unleash some needless change.