Flickr Experts: Explore - need a little help

Calina

Sometime ago while involved in online gadget freakery, I put up the BigHugeLabs button on my flickr profile which is here

Okay so I understand that I have a gazillion photos up and all that, 35 contacts and four million sets.

Under Explore I have 1. This is completely news to me. Is there any way of finding out - easily - which photograph that is?

GristlyEnd

flickr scout will tell you and it's telling me it's your Poolbeg Dec 2003 shot. Congrats (I've never gotten one into explore).

elven

Yup, there's a thin called scout on the FD's flickr toys page...

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/scout.php

Calina

Thanks folks, I really, really appreciate that. I see it's been there for oh nearly 2 years...and I never knew it. I'm stunned.

Now must try harder to get another one in. :-)

Borderfox

Flickr has been down for the last day.

Calina

Not for me it's not...although I didn't try to upload anything to it.

elven

I've been flickring a lot in the last day, and it's been fine for me...

Borderfox

Just me then. I had a look using the FD flickr toys and I have four in explore...

Roen

Six, I had eight at one stage though

Fajitas!

Have 2 in there.

Again with the me not pimping photos though.


Yeah...that's my excuse.

311

I thought my photos were crap(really crap) ,theres two on the explorer.

Thats an excellent program ,very easy to navigate flickr history with it.

elven

There's plenty pimping can be done to get pictures in explore... but it's just a popularity contest/numbers game - like being the Pussycat Dolls of photography...

Calina

I don't usually have the time to go pimping my stuff...which is why I was stunned any of my photographs had made explore...

311

The word pimping means something got to do with cars for me ,whats the deal with flickr ??

Calina

You watch a lot of MTV, then Brian?

It means showing off your wares.

311

I need a crash course in IT phrases

rymus

handy little script..

Valentia

elven wrote:

There's plenty pimping can be done to get pictures in explore... but it's just a popularity contest/numbers game - like being the Pussycat Dolls of photography...

Not sure about that. I have had a fair few in but no new ones until recently. Then I checked yesterday and my rays shot had crept in there for the 24th. It hasn't had an awful lot of views and only two faves so I don't know how Explore is working now. Awhile back I had about twelve but they have changed their algorithm so the number hovers between 2 & 6.

Anyway all it does is massage the ego and means nothing as far as quality is concerned (generally speaking as there are some dingers in there).

Valentia

By the way there is a thing called Flickr Inspector which is fun to play with and, if you are using Firefox, a few really nice Greasemonkey scripts that lets you check any photo's, not just your own, Explore history.

Whiles away the winter.