Issues with Flickr

Flickr is no longer uploading my photos. I'm using Imgur now. PLEASE remember to make the photos/albums HIDDEN not public. I forgot and left mine public and within minutes got a bunch of perverted comments and dislikes which is why I hate imgur but it's the only thing working right now.

 

@TwilightBabyDoll
Have you gone past the 1000 photo limit for the free version of flickr?

And are your photos set to safe? My partner keeps having an issue with his automatically uploading marked as nsfw so he cant link them til he changes each one by hand.

 

I made this mistake too! I have had an account on imgur for many years now just to share and store images. When I went to use it for pictures of my new girl here I left it on public and immediately got blasted with downvotes and nasty comments. Yuck. So I deleted my entire account and now I use Google Photos. It can be a pain because you have to basically use another site to convert your photos into links but it works so far for me.

 

Its disgusting! Someone commented on my post within 15 seconds. I can't even say what it said but yuck. It's like a bunch of pervs live on Imgur. I've also had like 40 downvotes on an anime figure picture. Why, I do not know lol. I'll have to check out Google Photos!

 

It’s frustrating because I couldn’t find a way to get rid of the comment without completely deleting everything. So I pressed the red button (total account deletion) and will never go back to imgur again. Sad because it’s otherwise a very useful site.

For google photos you have to follow a couple steps.
This article explains it nicely.
They link this website in the article but here it is anyway.

 

Post Image also works, but I can't remember if there's an upload limit.

 

Flickr was giving me grief yesterday, but seems to be working now.

 

I think it has to do with something Flickr is doing with their settings or something. The same thing happened to me a few months ago. All of my linked stuff died, then a day or two later, it was all back. It's annoying for sure, but at least it's working again.

 

Thanks for sharing! I shared pictures from google photos directly before and it would give my issues. I try this method.

 

As CloakedSchemer mentioned, Flickr is doing some work, which has affected things from time to time. Just in case no one has noticed the heads-up on Flickr recently, there will be some serious downtime on Wednesday --

Planned maintenance and Flickr downtime

So, don't panic and start searching for another photo host, until we see how it all sorts out! (Not that I'm an apologist for Flickr, but compared to some hosts, it's generally useful )

 

Flickr's back, although slow. Did anyone else enter the Good Panda photo contest? I see a number of pictures with dolls included.

 

I can't figure out how to post a picture here from Flickr. Can anyone help? I'm seriously about to give up.

 

@Rynn007 , OK, I assume you already have a picture posted on flickr. Look at the bottom of the black background of your photo and to the right.
Click on the middle, right-pointing, arrow.
Click on "BBCode".
Choose a size--generally "Medium".
Now click on the URL and copy it.
Then paste it in your DoA post.
The picture will show up when you post your message.

 

@Rynn007, I also like to use the downpointing arrow to the right of the middle arrow. I click on that, and a little box of size selections pops up; I click on the one at the bottom, "View all sizes". This takes you to a page with the pic, and several sizes listed; I usually click on "Medium 800", and the pic is then resized accordingly. I right-click on the pic, then click on "Copy image address". Then in the DoA post-writing box, I click on the little landscape pic (next to the happy face) in the tool bar, and paste the pic addy in the box that pops up asking for the "Image URL", then click on the "Insert" button.

 

Omg thank you so much for this tip ! I was super frustrated that my pics didn’t show up. But your tip helped a lot.

 

I am trying to load photos from Flickr and I've done the above steps (Thank you @phanuel and @beamlette for the tips!) but once I hit insert I get a huge pop up that says I am blocked with code: Cloudflare Ray ID: 5c4068cf5ace9fbe I've been able to close it out and continue but my photos don't load. I've gotten some as a link for now but trying to fix. Any tips? Maybe I am missing something? Or its a new thing with Flickr?

 

@Dorei, I'm sorry you're having problems with using Flickr. I noticed it's been a year since I posted my method for photo loading, and so far I haven't had any problems. It may depend on your browser or devices, too. When I post photos I use my desktop PC, with Chrome browser. My Apple devices (iPhone, iPad) are too fiddly for me.

 

Oh gosh I didnt even notice the date haha. I will try another browser (was using firefox on pc).

 

I’ve been here on DOA forever and would like to use FlickR for photo hosting. Have a lot of pics there. But … is it possible to do the posting using an iPhone, and from the FlickR app? Can anyone give me a brief tutorial. I will only be using my phone for this. If not FlickR, post image? Or? Thanks in advance.

 

@Eacretp I upload them all from my phone via the app, but I don't think the app is equipped with coding text-style sharing methods, so once I have all my photos uploaded I go to a computer and just copy and paste! If you are only using a phone, your phone's browser in desktop mode should allow you to do the same thing, I hope!

I may need to have a look at my individual photos' settings, because some of them suddenly stopped working the other day but others are fine, in the same post and same flickr upload even!

 

I know that this is old, but thank you so, so, SO much! I've been pulling my hair out trying to get this to work and was giving up hope. You're the best!

 

@KaraWildsong , so glad it worked for you!

 

You are a lifesaver, I couldn't figure what went wrong with posting photos. Thank you for this solution.

 

@Deifilia , you're welcome, I'm happy it helped you.

 

It kind of feels like Flickr is a bit of a ghost town these days as far as interacting with others over there.\
I recently got active again here and Flickr has been working smoothly for me. Hoping all the things I've posted here don't end up as broken links. That is to say, I hope Flickr doesn't decide to change things going forward from this date.

 

@DaughterofEden, Instagram took away a lot of people from Flickr (as well as other photo-host reliant chat boards), and didn't help themselves by trying to push people into Pro (paid) accounts and limiting space and content on free accounts.

Unfortunately every service everywhere insists on changes, good or bad. I think they do it just because they can, and they frankly don't care if they inconvenience people. Wish there was a way to inconvenience those people in turn, and tell them, "Too bad, so sad."

 

HI All. No matter what I do I am getting a broken link icon when I try to add an image (like this 1 Vikingpose) from Flikr. I never had this issue in the past. Anyone else having this issue?

 

I don't think there's anything wrong with offering limited free accounts and a paid service, but I wish these companies would understand how much easier it would be to sell subscriptions if they made the prices lower. Of course if every service is $5 a month people will just jump to the next free thing.

 

Ok I figure it out. Luckily I know some HTML. When copy and pasting and link from Flickr you need to delete extra text from the beginning and end of the string. You just need the .IMG string.