In the past I've uploaded videos just fine, but currently I'm unable to upload a video.

It is within all the required specs (MP4, not restricted, 1080p, less than 1GB in size, is less than minutes long) and is on a pro account so storage is not an issue.

I'll upload it, assign the albums, Flickr says video is ready to be published, I click upload, it process and goes to the Photostream page. I wait for a while (more than an hour in one instance) to make sure it's fully done, open the photostream in a different window, and nothing.

No video. No error message, no time out, nothing, just no video.

The video is not corrupted, it plays fine on everything.

I'm working overseas, so I've tried this using a VPN set for the US as well and no difference.

Any ideas what's going on?

Thanks

I have two albums for which I need to modify the description. i.e Be more explanatory ? e.g "These photos were taken during blah blah blah, while on blah blah. We were celebrating ...."

I feel that flickr has fallen way way behind in adding editing tools, or enhancing stats granuality.

Thanks in Advance.

Stats from iOS seems to outweigh those from Android by 10:1 (sometimes close to 100:1) - why is this?

• Is it the single iOS app vs multiple android versions (I assume there's some unofficial Android apps out there) - maybe they are coming in as browser stats?
• Or does Flickr suck on Android relative to iOS?
• Or are most Flickr users also in the iOS demographic?

It's been this way for a long while but seems to have only got more pronounced with time, would love the community's thoughts on this?

I want to download photos with EXIF information of some specific buildings. But most of them only have GPS, but no camera orientation. How can I search it.

Camera orientation means when taking photos, which direction does the camera point towards

Super super super thanks for any help🙏🙏🙏

I’m sure there’s a lot of these posts, but I’m wondering how I can grow a following. I’ve been delving into photography for a few years now and I want to start getting my photos out there. While I enjoy taking photos for myself/family/friends to see, I want to put them out there for others. I don’t expect a huge following, but I just think it would be cool to have a wider audience see what I capture. I followed as many profiles as it would let me before I got an error, so I’m just wondering if there’s any features I’m missing to get my account out there. Thanks!

My flickr has looked like this for quite sometime in browsers only. the app looks just fine on my phone.
I have reinstalled ALL apps and browsers, there is not one single add on or anything on any browser.
No rules for any firewall or antivirus.

I have accepted cookies a million times.

I have googled it for months and tried so many things.

NO ONE has told me it has been fixed. Is this fixable?

AND HOW please!

Gyazo

its not like im following to few people, as i follow 100+ people. i just randomly get stuff like this on my feed. it’ll just put like the past 10 photos of one of the people i follow, and then like an infinite deluge of “recommended” photos with no option to return to how it normally is.

I don't know what the issue is, but I can't upload photos to Flickr that were saved to my phone after uploading to Instagram!? This happened a few months ago when I tried as well...

They are standard "*.jpg" files.

I've tried renaming the files and tried renaming the extension to "*.jpeg". No luck.

I still get the "__ file is invalid and needs to be removed." error.

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This only seems to happen with photos that were auto-created from Instagram though. I can upload my original photos (which are also "*.jpg") with no issue at all!?

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Is there something in the metadata that Flickr doesn't like?

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This is very frustrating and confusing. Please help!

Anyone know what the turnaround time is for the data request to be processed? I have 25k photos and my pro membership runs out in a weeks time.. it’s been two days already.

Hi! After being mad here : https://www.reddit.com/r/flickr/s/4XqkkuCur8

I'm glad to say I added the A6700 in the Sony list 🙂

But I don't find the link, I'm trying https://www.flickr.com/cameras/sony/ilce-6700/ But it's doesn't works :(

I last uploaded to Flickr more than ten years ago and want to recover the highest-resolution photos that belong to my photo stream. When I click "view all sizes" I see up to 2048x1365, but I think I uploaded higher resolutions than that. I also see "Download: The owner has disabled downloading of their photos".

Is there no way to download the original quality of the photos that I uploaded? Thanks!

I recently had an experience on Flickr where several of my photos were rejected by a group. Actually, I don't have a problem with certain photos being rejected here and there, but practically all the photos I submitted to this group from the time I joined Flickr 9 years ago up until now were suddenly rejected. I think what got to me the most was there was no explanation as to why.

I will admit that I'm no Ansel Adams or William Eggelston, but even those photographers had their trial and error pictures like everyone else. I know it's been like that for me from the beginning. Since photography is categorized under the arts, there are going to be biased opinions to what the viewer likes and what they don't like. But being the natural encourager that I am ( I'm a school teacher), I would never discourage or reject those who have a passion for what they do. To me photography is more than what kind of camera or lenses a person has. On Flickr and other sites, I've seen amazing photography coming from people using outdated cell phone cameras to the most expensive Leica. And not everyone can afford a $5,000 camera or expensive lenses. I personally have 3 Sony cameras, but they are definitely not the latest. Two of the cameras I bought used.

If your pictures happen to go unrecognized or rejected on Flickr (or any other app), don't give up on your love for photography. Don't let the anal retentive art snobs get to you, because they do exist. Continue to learn and grow from your own experiences.

In the camera list page from Sony : https://www.flickr.com/cameras/sony/
After almost 1 year, the A6700 didn't appear.

Is Flickr is now an abandonned software ?
Someone buy it, no maintenance and got the money ? Why it's so difficult for you to add a model ?

Why so many pictures on Flickr are not cropped or changed from the default aspect ratio to improve them?

It’s such an easy way to improve photos. Forget color and other adjustments, just crop.

Are people really that lazy or just not aware how much simple cropping can improve their composition?

Venting post, I know. Commiserate with me 😄

The thing that keeps me coming back to Flickr is the quality of some of the photographs, and what I'm able to learn or aspire to from different photographers' work. But lately I've been seeing more and more AI-generated content that, while it may be aesthetically pleasing, frustrates me because of the technical impossibilities of the quality of the image. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.

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Flickr, if you're listening, you're having a real signal-to-noise problem lately, and it's becoming more severe with every passing day. Yes there's a lot of below average photography on the site, but it's becoming increasingly hard to sort the good photography from the better than average Midjourney- or Stable Diffusion-type content.

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So I'd really like to know, what are the Flickr team planning to do about it?

I am a photographer and painter. I used to use flickr a lot to store and share photos. After using Instagram for years I feel that I need something more structured and organized like Flickr albums so that I can share albums to my clients while I keep them in public. A lot has changed with flickr and not many people use it these days. What do you guys use nowadays? Any suggestions? I would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you!

I've used this feature for years and years, and as recently as a week or two ago. Is there another way to access the legacy organizer tool, or am I just experiencing a weird glitch that has made the option disappear?

A bit of a rant as no one else would get it. I’m at a complete loss. I’ve had Flickr since it took over Yahoo photos. I had a pro account for a while but let it lapse because I wasn’t getting any benefit from it. Then the recent changes hit and it all went to hell. I had to delete hundreds of pictures I had posted, and then figure out what was, and wasn’t allowed per their new rules. I thought I had it figured out then for a warning note that I had some content that was against the guidelines per my account (free vs pro, and it wasn’t anything ridiculous, but certainly it not PG rates). I removed what was in violation, and even some that I wasn’t quite sure of. I requested a review and everything was copacetic. I haven’t uploaded anything since.

Last week, I went to check my Flickr feed and I’m logged out. No big deal, this happens from time to time. I try log back in and I get an error for invalid email or password. I tried resetting the password but again for an error for invalid email or password. I thought maybe the site was down so I let it go a couple days. I tried again and the same thing so I emailed Flickr support, and again waited several days (they prioritize Pro accounts). Today they finally get back to me and tell me that my account has been terminated for violation of community guidelines and terms of use, and all of my content was removed and will not be restored. No warning. Nothing. Just gone. Flickr was the only place I had some of those pictures and they’re now gone forever without reason or warning. And they have yet to tell me WHAT about my account was against the guidelines (I’ll be surprised if they actually tell me)

My account is gone after I’d been in compliance for months after an audit, meanwhile there’s free accounts everywhere of stolen web content that’s pure porn. It’s plain ridiculous how the site is being run.

/rant

Hello! I'm software development illiterate, but an avid photographer and believe Flickr to be a hidden gem of a platform for browsing authentic photographic art (even in 2024).

Because the website has been around for decades now and the groups have filled with now-inactive members and group photo pools have filled with photos burying the best/most viral photographs from Flickr's hay day.

Thus, because of the age of Flickr, it's difficult to access the most popular photos in a group pool (or even from a particular photographer). I know the feature exists for individual artists to showcase the most popular photos from their own photostreams, but this isn't common practice.

Perhaps someone could help explain why a feature to sort photos by view count isn't natively supported? And perhaps why a third party extension hasn't yet been attempted?

I've seen some amazingly useful google chrome extensions. Thus I wonder, could an extension be made to sort these Flickr photo collections by popularity? If not, could someone explain the limitations (either with Flickr or with Google Chrome)?

Like the title says. I've noticed that Flickr has been really buggy the last couple of months. Uploads will hang if you do anything more than just titles and descriptions, and I tried to do a batch download on my own images in Camera Roll, and it returned empty files. Plus it's been really laggy in general, getting to the if-it-even-works stage in my mind. Flickr support has apologized for it and added a few free months of Pro for the trouble, but this is becoming quite bothersome. I'm to the point right now where I'm just getting photos prepped and ready to go, and I'll start moving on them once they get their issues cleared up, plus working more on other projects.

Hello,

I've a little less than 1500 followers. When I post a new photo, normally, after 5 or 10 minutes, I got some views or some views + fav.

However, it happens than my followers can't see that I've posted a new picture: even after 1, 2 or 3 hours I got 0 views.

If I post in a group, people in the group see my photo. Only my followers can't see it.

I need to repost the photo.

Before, it was rarely happening. But since 2 months it happens more and more and more. This just happened to me twice in a row, and it's not the first time.

Am I alone to get this problem which exasperates me?

Thank you.