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Cool, and yet in another totally different way, it's horrible (if you're running the image caching servers ;)
There's a reason we don't do this on the Flickr site!
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Any way to do this efficiently Stewart. It's pretty amazing.
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Kind of overwhelming in a way. I find it hard to focus enough on any one image enough to want to click on it.
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They could probably start off by caching the interestingness thumbnails and only refreshing them once in a while - rather than loading them at each request.
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I quite like it, only thing I don't like is the American format date, quite confusing for us Brits until you realise. :o|
Posted 76 months ago.
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I pulled up my my username not realizing that it was going to load over 3000 thumbnails. I closed the browser window after it had loaded about 500.
Posted 76 months ago.
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NSFD - Not Safe For Dialup
Posted 76 months ago.
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OMG... it's like sponsoring an alcoholic with free booze
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I think it falls into the "fun" category. Just tried it out, but so far as I can tell, it's unidimensional. You can plug in one variable at a time, such as Interestingness by date, set, username, etc. It's a blast to see all that stuff stream through without having to page, but the experience doesn't have that much utility. Still, I'll go back.
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scariest flickr toy ever
it's kinda caool but almost defeats the purpose of flickr for me, i mean why would you want to pul up every single image soemone has posted
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it used to be that you could set up the flickr badge to display as many photos as you liked instead of the current limit, which i think was 20.
i found it incredibly useful to be able to see all of my own photos on one big scrollable page, in case i needed to find something and all other search options had failed to find what i knew was there.
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i mean why would you want to pul up every single image soemone has posted
to find what you know is there but can't think of the tag/title for.
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Anyone who doesn't see the absolute, genious, point in this tool obviously has a life outside of flickr... :)
Posted 76 months ago.
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Quite the sensory overload. Looks pretty cool though.
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Well... I'm the developer of this toy... and you're right - I find it a dream and a nightmare on many different levels. If you have more interest in learning the "why" behind it, click on the about link. Honestly, it was built as a quick and dirty tool. Please don't judge me too harshly on usability (unilateralness and all that), as it was meant for me, but unleashed for all at the behest of a few Flickr friends I shared the project with.
Posted 76 months ago.
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curioskiwi: "I closed the browser window after it had loaded about 500."
Hehe- I let it ride the full 3100+ images then printed to PDF to see how big that file was. 35 pages and 40mb.
:-)
Posted 76 months ago.
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Houser - I've been meaning to email you, but ... you gotta limit it to something much, much smaller.
I loaded the FlickrCentral pool and firefox got up to using 240mb of ram before dying. So that's not a great user experience, but it's really terrible for Flickr. If it catches on and you don't limit it, we'll have to cut you off :\
Posted 76 months ago.
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LarindaME: It works well on my dial up here
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Wow, This is brilliant.
Watching my whole photostream go by is bringing back loads of great memories.
Its a pity it overloads flickr though: I can see Stewart's point.
Posted 76 months ago.
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Its usefull...thanks
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Stewart,
Please email me at houser@houserdesign.com. I'd like to discuss how this "tool" can viably be used without negatively impacting Flickr. That, by all means, was never my intent.
Posted 76 months ago.
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I put in my username and got very vew of my own shots. Got zillions of ones I'd never seen, but hardly any of my own.
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Cindy? Did you enter the right name and in the right spot? I did a test and your images come up fine.
NOTE that you have over 2700 images in Flickr. Given the concerns by Flickr in this thread, I urge you *not* to use this tool on your own photostream.
Again, I do hope to have a dialog with Flickr developers soon to figure some of this out.
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Wouldn't it be better to let it output all 500 images when the user requests interestingness data but when the user requests data from a photostream, then if output is less than or equal to 200, output all, otherwise, page it.
Ditto for groups?
Posted 76 months ago.
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I like it..It was quite interesting for me to see my whole photos at the same time..But I also agree with Stewart..
If it is developed,then,it may become best flickr toy...(for a while) :)
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I urge you *not* to use this tool on your own photostream.
I would just turn it off for the moment or limit the results returned until you get it sorted out with them. The horse is out of the barn and you know how curious people are with new tools to play with.
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i'd limit it to 500 images per page.
that'll break down a 2000 photo stream into 4 very managable chunks.
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Does the Search only search on tags or does it do an advanced search query?
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Only tags right now, but I'm open to adding functionality based on what the Flickr API makes available to me.
Also note that based on feedback from this thread, I've limited results from everything but the Interestingness search to 200 results - currently without paging. I'll add some paging as a stop-gap soon, but I hope this alleviates some load on the servers.
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wow! nice tool, thanks to developer and everyone's involved. it's really helpful and I'll have some fun making screenshots... :)
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Okay, despite my pissing and moaning, I actually took a couple seconds to slap a few things into place. I have design work I obviously should not do at work, but on a break I can bang out some code for this puppy and no one's the wiser. Besides... I earn my breaks.
So changes include:
- Slightly sticky. The page now remembers what tab you were last on (except the about page, which is just filled with my drivel, so I figured I was doing people a favor by not making that thing sticky).
- More ways to search. Thanks to David Kellam of idGettr for providing a code snippet to obtain the NSIDs for users or group based on a URL. Now you can paste in a URL and view the photos. I'll soon move up some code that enables the same functionality for photosets.
- Paging. Yes, I realize it goes against the tagline for the site, but it was that or pull the plug. You can now traverse past the first 200 photos via page links. Also displayed are the total number of images and which range you are currently viewing.
I think I may have added something else in there today, but my brain is back on work things.
n-joi!
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I know the site has been taken down for the last few days due to the digg effect. I'm just wondering how long the break is gonna be. I have a strange hunch that some changes are being made to it during this time. Could I be right?
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It's pretty impressive technology. I'd check in with Houser if you want to know more. Probably better that it doesn't get so much attention when it's back online.
Posted 75 months ago.
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