Here’s something that’s been bugging me. Why, when I am uploading multiple exhibits of gastronomic delight to Flickr, has no-one been commenting?
Today I worked it out, after uploading a bunch of photos at the weekend. Essentially the problem is this: normally, when I upload things, I first transfer them as “Private”. This is so I can go through, update the titles, descriptions, tags, etc, without the photos appearing multiple times in my photo feed and annoying the hell out of everyone.
At the weekend, however, I accidentally uploaded everything as “Public” and then went through updating the metadata. Suddenly it’s comment city! So I suppose that there is some kind of annoying feed feature in that if you don’t initially publicise your photos, then when you do so later they aren’t included in your feed either.
Frankly, Flickr, that’s a little crap. Isn’t there a middle way?
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November 3rd, 2005 at 10:16 PM
Meri,
You’ve got quite a collection of food photos there!
You should consider CC licensing them; they’d make great stock photos. 🙂
November 3rd, 2005 at 10:18 PM
Why thank you Jeremy — I am quite proud of them, especially as they were taken with a cellphone with a camera!
I’ll consider CC licencing them, but I’ll talk to the Belle & Herbs guys first to check they’re OK with it (http://blog.ilovebelleandherbs.co.uk)
November 10th, 2005 at 8:04 PM
Hi Merideth,
Have you tried changing the date uploaded on a bunch of photos after you make them public? I’m pretty sure you can do that as a batch operation on a set in Organizr. Might be worth a shot to see if it bumps them back to the top of your feed. (I assume you mean the RSS feed?)