Flickr, in my experience, is the least bad of the photosharing services. It's been stable, it doesn't screw with images much, allows full high res downloads of original images, and keeps comment spam under control.
But it has a recurring transient problem where uploads just fail at the "Verifying" stage. And I am currently being afflicted by this. Frustrated.
I still can't upload large images to Flickr.
So I opened a support ticket this morning. I got a reply from a human in 15 minutes acknowledging that others have reported similar problems and promising to keep me updated. At no point was I asked to restart my browser, reboot my computer, or turn anything off and on again, nor did they try to gaslight me by claiming no one else has complained. They just acknowledged the problem and promised to fix it.
Remarkable enough to be notable these days.
Still unable to upload large (> ~90MP) images to Flickr, which remains frustrating (though I still appreciate their support people's forthright responsiveness to my queries about it). It had worked fine in the recent past.
I can downsize before uploading, but that negates one of the biggest advantages Flickr has for me over competing services, which is the ability to upload full res images and have them do the right thing with rescaling.
I hope they fix this soon.
Please, if it's not clear, I'm not asking for your "advice" here. I already know about things like clearing cookies, rebooting, trying different browsers. I've actually used the Internet several times already.
Flickr acknowledges that there's a bug. It's on their end.
@mattblaze LOL. Last night, when I was doing the troubleshooting ritual with the cable internet supplier (no sync - probably a power outage in upstream equipment) the CSA wanted to know if the MAC address on the cable modem was in upper case or lower case. I am *certain* that clearing my browser cache would have helped.
Upper case for the first three bytes, lower case for the last three.
Matt Blaze
you're all idiots
Cat West
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