Three quick things
We’re investigating some myterious network issues which cause Flickr to load really slowly for some people. All servers are up, and the site is blazing […]
Pond Scum
As it turns out, pond scum is really gorgeous. Here at the venerable Flickr Academy it’s all about learning to see. Now that you’ve been […]
11 September, 2004
We finally added slideshows to the site, something we have been meaning to do since, oh, before we launched in February. Read more on the […]
Introducing Slideshows
You can now view slideshows of just about any group of photos that you can think of: your photosets, your own personal tags, global tags […]
Pictures of Jakarta Bombing
As noted on Metafilter, photos of the Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta appeared on Flickr before any of the major news services had gotten it […]
More group pool action
I think we need a way for good group pool activity to somehow bubble up and get more visibility – I keep stumbling upon amazing […]
Flickr Closed for Maintenance
Flickr will be closed for 10-30 minutes between 2-2:30 PM today for maintenance and upgrades. We’ll be getting it open again as soon as possible. […]
Favorites
We quietly rolled out a new feature a week or two ago, the ability to add other people’s public photos to your list of favorites. […]
The Refrigerator Project
Ah, the poetry of the mundane is the kind of poetry that my Orpheus writes. And here it’s written by the creative Folk of Flickr […]
Happiness, Hairfarming and Holland
Robbie’s uploaded some of his archival photos that show us exactly what it’s like to be young and long-haired in the 1970s in Holland. An […]
Lomo lurve
From lomography.com: [The Lomo is] a compact, robust, Russian throwback to the fond yesterdays of Socialism and institutional craftsmanship. A relentlessly clicking beastie threatening to […]
Shooftastic
In addition to being a famous artist, one of two uncles to Dos Pesos, and a freelance troublemaker, Peter Schuyff has enough spare creative energy […]