stupid flickr question

It's important to be a good neighbour? I don't know what you're talking about. What is it that you think I have been doing that is bad for anyone else?

Well, it is a day for discovering new, possibly useful and possibly not, technologies and computer programs ... I now have the FLICKR UPLOADR and am trying to upload 5 pictures with it. I'm not too sure how well it is working - it seems slow so far and I guess I will have to wait and see whether the various tags etc are applied as I hoped.

I didn't read what you wrote but you should give up on computers.

I think the notion is that, by using a browser which has known security issues, you may end up with lots of unpleasant little viral trojan whatnots living on your PC which will then propagate themselves throughout the web, using your machine/web connection/email address book as a launching pad. Is that the idea, ForestPines? I know very little about this stuff.

Whether it's enough to have Norton or AVG or whatever other antiviral/spyware application running to counteract anything IE allows through, I don't know. I guess prevention is better than cure. I don't even know for sure than FF is better than IE in this regard.

xpost with ever-useful Catsup

The FLICKR UPLOADR did work for the first 5 pix but has now gone into a strange phase in which it says it is Uploading Photos to Flickr, also says DONE! and meanwhile is not actually adding anything to Flickr, as far as I can see.

Meanwhile a whole ton of not very interesting pix have been left in a strange limbo somewhere in the middle of the FLICKR UPLOADR in which they can be seen, with strange bars across them, but not manipulated or touched in any way. A kind of FLICKR PHANTOM ZONE.

Is "cafe au premier plan" a new one? I can see it!

Er, I'm not sure what's going on with your phantom zone stuff.

Yes that one is new. But there are 6 others that should have followed it which is got stuck in the PHANTOM ZONE. Finally I deleted them. from the ZONE. I think I will try to upload them the previous way, though this loses the advantage of the ORDR from the UPLOADR.

I don't think I've ever had a Flickr Uploadr failure (and that includes one batch of 700 photos) - except from the office, where many things don't work (Flickr video - took three months to work; streaming BBC live stuff - failed on day 3 of Wimbledon).

I should perhaps quit while I'm only slightly behind in this thread (settle for a 0-1); I've suggested two things which have flopped quite badly.

WANTAWAY JONES IN CRISIS

'MY GOODISON PAIN' BY MISUNDERSTOOD MAESTRO

if you're accidentally trying to uploaded an unflattened file or a cmyk image or even a file without the proper .jpg or whatever at the end - it can really mess with uploadr.

I finally went along with flickr's recommendation and took up the new 'Uploadr'. OK. But today, at least, it seems to be uploading photos in the reverse order from how it used to.

Like when they're in the uploadr page, the one in the top left corner should be the last to be uploaded, and appear at the top / newest point of the photostream, right? But the reverse seems to be happening. Is that only happening to me?

(btw when I say NEW Uploadr: I used the old one a LOT after Steady Mike recommended it - the only problem with it is how relentlessly it mangles tags, which seems an unhappy and unfair thing to do; I had been hoping the new one might be better)

I've never understood how Flickr orders its photos.

The first one in your Upload box = the first one in yr Photostream after the upload completes (now, anyway - the PF may be right about how it used to do it), so it does, effectively, upload them in reverse order. You can alter the order of photos in your photostream by faking the upload timestamp but I don't recommend it for a large number of pictures.

This is slightly alarming.

is it possible to....replace flickr photos? all the photos i've uploaded from africa are really low-rez, and the better looking originals would really look better at full-rez. ideally i'd merely "add" the higher rez versions to the existing photo pages, but i'm guessing I'll just have to post duplicates in order to prevent broken links here and elsewhere on the web

also i emailed them from iphoto---is uploading directly the way to bypass the attachment limitations?

guys i am so bad at flickr

yeah you can replace any flickr pic (you might need a premium account for this tho i doubt it) - a replace option should be visible on the photo's page

the brand new iphoto has a built-in flickr export tool; if you have an older versh of iphoto you can use this, it works really well -

http://connectedflow.com/flickrexport/

flickr uploader seems to still ignore attempts to re-order the photos to be uploaded grr

you can go through one-by-one and hit "Replace this photo". links should stay intact.
usually i upload with the flickr "uploadr". not sure abt the limitation - i have a pro account tho.

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also - since i'm here - time for some shamless elf-promotion! just uploaded a set from Toledo, Spain:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2472/3829524218_59264f1bed.jpg

erm... "shameless self-promotion", that should be.

ok so i just popped for the pro acct and yes, there is a replace button now. thanks dudes

How good are Flickr about removing copyrighted videos? My friend wants to know.

I still don't know how to make a Flickr picture appear on ilx.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9107386@N06/4999376848/

seems logical
but doesn't seem to post the picture!

It just posts a box with an x in it.

so how did people post all those Flickr pictures on here?

I think you have to use a version of the photo in a particular size.

it has changed since then
now you have to click on "share" (i think) and then choose html or bbcode and then c/p

Above the picture, it says "share this" it's all in there :)

hmmm, should've been quicker.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/4984635535_d7c54f00c0.jpg
Squid, parsley, pepper over spinach on Flickr

^^ this is if you c/p the entire bbcode

but this is if you just c/p the url

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/4984635535_d7c54f00c0.jpg

I did try that! I copied from html in that Share menu and added [img] and ilx said I was doing it wrong.

(I mean I did what Not Goodwin said, I thought)

you have to switch to bbcode -- there's a little choice down there

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/4999376848_19bdae1f98.jpg
number9dream by bellefox rendezvous, on Flickr

oh - so you don't add the img thing at all!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9107386@N06/4999376848/"; title="number9dream by bellefox rendezvous, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/4999376848_19bdae1f98.jpg"; width="500" height="375" alt="number9dream" /></a>

that was the html - so does that need the IMG thing?

No, can't make that work.

Grab the HTML/BBcode then paste in this box, then hit the convert button below and it should work.

you can c/p this part (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/4999376848_19bdae1f98.jpg) and add your own img tag
and spare yourself from being identified as easily

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/4999376848_19bdae1f98.jpg (see, no direct posted link to flickr)

This box = Add a Post box :)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/4999376848_19bdae1f98.jpg

that was using the CONVERT button, as recommended by not goodwin - I never even saw that button before or knew what it was for!

Took me a few attempts to get it right first time.
now you can pass on your interweb copy and pasting knowledge to others :)

I can't upload anything to Flickr. Is this only happening to me?

I expect so.

http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/72157626690796099/

how the shit do i upload a photo from my photo library from the new iphone app? i regret the update already.

actually, something here: https://www.flickr.com/groups/2389839@N23/discuss/72157699746592621/

that might be a special 2-year subscription, which i didn't know existed, only the monthly and yearly

i paid $42 with the discount they offered via email. honestly, that's not a lot of money to make sure all of my photos are accessible. i am ok with it. this is where i stored my life. i don't expect storage of my life to be inexpensive, and $42 wasn't too bad.

done now, 3 zip files, 500 images a piece and another containing .json files for each photo (the metadata). there are a bunch i can cull that nobody will care about, to get me below 1000.

I've got 22k images up there, dating back 14 years. My 2-yr Pro sub auto-updated in October at the new, doubled rate. It was very late in the day before I saw that was about to happen.

The promised improvements to the phone app have yet to happen, and the access is flaky. But... what am I going to do? I'm not moving 80GB+ of content to another site for anything much cheaper than this (losing all the history / context / interaction in the process) and nor do I have the time/inclination to curate a subset of that elsewhere (I've tried, on 500px and Zenfolio, and I just give up after a while).

I fear there'll be a lot of Bad Panda in the coming weeks as people bulk-download/delete/bail.

today was the free-but-unlimited account cutoff day.

looking at the per-photo .json file it does appear to contain all comments (including some from you!) all the exif stuff. everything you'd see on the webpage bascially.

we should start a free replacement, call it FUCKR.

$0.023 per GB per month for raw aws s3 storage. $2 a month for 80GB.

($0.024 if you want it in london)

I do quite like the stats, even if they're a dubious measure of engagement (e.g. I put a photo in a heavy-traffic public group, it gets a "view" for everyone who visits the group while the photo is amongst the most recent pageful - bingo, 200 "views" in a day though likely only 2-3 people have really clicked on it - not how it used to work) and is subject to distortion by various web-crawling bots (the suspicious exactly-100 views that each recent page in my stream gets occasionally) and the referrals are mostly anonymous. I have a feeling 500px does this a bit better, but that's chiefly the domain of flawlessly-lit Russian "glamour" photography and it gets a bit samey.

I think I'm Flickr for life. Until SmugMug go bust and it all vanishes.

xp - it's not just about the storage (if I wanted to cloud-store my all-time catalog, it's going to be around 3.5TB)

I've scheduled a date to do a mass migration to HD and cull the herd down to sub-1000.

Mission accomplished... now what?

Mass import to IG (lol)?