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zyrcster    says:

Wow. So, now the html for everyone's thingies is right there on the page by default, eh?

I like the new feature. I just wish the default were something other than "everyone."
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

austenhaines    says:

good, another new 'thing', but how about sorting out other stuff first?

Like why when im at my photostream, does it still say in my tab, photos and videos from Austenhaines when i dont have any videos?

This was raised yonks ago in the video thread, but Flickr decide to install something else. I dont care about the new thing, just try and sort out some of the other stuff.

Pretty please.

:-)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Lú_    says:

zyrcster wrote

Wow. So, now the html for everyone's thingies is right there on the page by default, eh?

BigBean    says:

kevin,
i have a question:
Is there a way I can 'hide' my email address from the new 'share this' auto-complete feature?

Much as I love my contacts (and I assume the auto complete only works with reverse contacts?) to share stuff with me, I'd like this only done via flickr mail.

The flickr (and RL friends) who know my email address can of course type it in- but the current auto-complete feature means that if someone types in the first letter, flickr displays my email address for potentially hundreds of sharing contacts.
If possible, i'd prefer not to make this so easy for people.

So, can I hide just my email address (not my flickr username) from auto-completing?

[edited]
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )
BigBean edited this topic 15 months ago.

♥ shhexycorin ♥    says:

austenhaines Do you think that maybe, just maybe, there were various other things in the pipeline that couldn't be launched until video was rolled out? You want the devs to work on translating "thingummybob" into Korean, do you?

(didn't quite read all of what you said there...)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )
♥ shhexycorin ♥ edited this topic 15 months ago.

eyebo    says:

I like it. Very handy. Thanks Flickr.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

zyrcster    says:

Thanks for checking that out, Lu.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Just Basic    says:

Hey Flickr.
Just noticed the brand spankin' new feature and gotta say it is a nice surprise. Just thought I'd let you know. I hope we get more of these little surprises soon...hint, hint ;)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

austenhaines    says:

@shheexycorin

Im sure there are always things in the pipeline like lots of companies, but occasionally companies will realise that there rollouts didnt go quite to plan and can elect to put things on hold to keep things neat and tidy. Just a little disapointed that flickr chose not to.

Off to google "thingummybob" in korean though. :-)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

♥ shhexycorin ♥    says:

Well, maybe it's not something that's actually that important. It's not stopping anyone from using any feature, for example, is it?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Lú_    says:

(No prob, Kris.) As a group admin anticipating that this is going to be very popularly used for posting to discussion topics, my request for tweaks to this feature would be for an option to embed a smaller sized image (in my largest group, we don't permit medium-sized images in discussion topics after the first post, since some topics are nothing but images), and also for, below the image, a bit of text that gave the name of the image and of the person whose image it is, especially for when someone is embedding someone else's image as a discussion point.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

austenhaines    says:

@Dunstan

Cool. Thanks.

And i've never been able to pat head and rub tummy together. just trying now.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Lú_    says:

You're photographing that, right, Austen?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

austenhaines    says:

lol.
Will do it now
edit
with clothes
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

♥ shhexycorin ♥    says:

Boo! I can't send a group thread to a friend anymore.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Kathryn Yu    says:

I find it very odd that the "Embed This" and "Blog This" options appear within the Share This menu, even if the photo's creator has turned off All Sizes and blogging. This is in Windows, Firefox 2.0.

Clicking on "Embed This" yields a textarea where I can grab code like this:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/username/123456789/" title="photo title by person, on Flickr"><img src="" width="" height="" alt="" /></a>

Clicking on "Blog This" yields a list of my blogs I've set up in Flickr, but clicking does nothing.

Shouldn't these two options be suppressed/not displayed in the Share This menu?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

~Rid©ully~    says:

Waiting for the results ;o)))
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

matt    says:

The email address auto-completion is a very serious privacy flaw. It's trivial to get someone's official Flickr email address regardless of their settings.

Kevin: check your email for details.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )
matt edited this topic 15 months ago.

Lú_    says:

Kathryn Yu If you actually look at what that code gives you, when all sizes is disabled, there's no image in the embed code. (Having blog this enabled or disabled doesn't affect what shows in the code -- but I think that was always independent of all sizes visibility, no?)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

zyrcster    says:

Also, it's not working as Steph describes for video, only for photos.

I have downloads set to Friends/Family. However I was able to log in using an account that is neither, and I could get the Embed code for a video of mine out of Share This, even though the Embed button is not there above the video.

Once I posted the video to a blog using the Embed code, the Share This embed code at the end of the video was also displayed. [edit] never mind that -- the link at the end of the video is actually not there.

But I still don't want people to use Share This to be able to embed the videos.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )
zyrcster edited this topic 15 months ago.

Kathryn Yu    says:

Right, Lú, Embed This and Blog This are independent of one another. You can have both off, one off, or both on. But why show an option in the Share This menu if you can't do anything with it? I imagine people will either get confused with the way the interface is designed.

For example, if you have All Sizes off, then when I click on Share This, I'll click on Embed This try to copy and paste the HTML code. But that HTML code won't work (because it doesn't actually contain the path to the image), and then I'll think that Flickr is "broken." But Flickr isn't broken, because you turned embedding off for your image! I don't think people will look closely enough at the HTML to notice that the code doesn't contain the path to the .jpg file on Flickr's servers.

If you have Blog This turned off, I could sit around clicking forever on my blogs in the Blog This menu, without understanding why the options "don't work." But Flickr isn't broken, because you turned blogging off for your image! But to me, Flickr's Share This menu looks broken because I can't choose a blog. Again, I don't think people will understand that you turned blogging off....

For both of these options, then I might report it to Flickr as a bug in the general Help Forum :).
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )
Kathryn Yu edited this topic 15 months ago.

Lú_    says:

Kathryn Yu wrote

Right, Lú, Embed This and Blog This are independent of one another. You can have both off, one off, or both on. But why show an option in the Share This menu if you can't do anything with it? I imagine people will either get confused with the way the interface is designed.

matt    says:

The email auto-completion was supposed to be respecting your profile privacy settings. I'm investigating this right now.

Thanks, Kellan!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Kathryn Yu    says:

Lú, it gives the title of the photograph but within the a tag. It's the img src="" part that will render as blank on a browser.

Here is my attempt to embed my friend's image in this help thread. She has All Sizes turn off. I clicked on Share This, then Embed, then copied and pasted the code:

<--- the photo should be right here, but because the image src is set to "" it is empty.

How did that show up for you? It showed up for me as blank.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Lú_    says:

Jude, can you check the video embed thing too?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Kathryn Yu    says:

Whew, quick fingers, judemat. Thanks for getting on the case so quickly!

Other than that permissions related bug, I really love this new button.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Lú_    says:

Kathryn Yu wrote

Lú, it gives the title of the photograph but within the a tag. It's the img src="" part that will render as blank on a browser.

Here is my attempt to embed my friend's image in this help thread. She has All Sizes turn off. I clicked on Share This, then Embed, then copied and pasted the code:

<--- the photo should be right here, but because the image src is set to "" it is empty.

How did that show up for you? It showed up for me as blank.

♥ shhexycorin ♥    says:

Hooray! thanks.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Walwyn    says:

@kellen
The email auto-completion was supposed to be respecting your profile privacy settings. I'm investigating this right now.

I set up a separate email account for flickr, which no one but I know about. Yet this is popping up the full addy.

Its going to be showing up the email addresses of kids too, which is definitely not good at all.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )
Walwyn edited this topic 15 months ago.

jakerome    says:

Nice feature. The one aspect that disappoints me is the "embed" link. Right now, I have "All Sizes" disabled ONLY because I want to hide access to the original size images. Everything else (medium, large) is easily copied anyway, and I want anyone to be able to easily share those image sizes. But, despite enabling everyone in the Flickrverse to share my photos, the embed link is totally busted... it embeds nothing.

I really, really, really think you should let others share our photos with the "embed" link. Even better, introduce a "hide original size image only" option. Thanks.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

matt    says:

Sorry, misread something and a got a bit redundant.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )
matt edited this topic 15 months ago.

jakerome    says:

Better if Flickr took the feature off line until it's fixed. Or at least disable auto completion of any email address. Lots of folks do no want their email addresses shared.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

r_r_r_r_robert    says:

I hope I have missed something here. If not I'm feeling rather deflated.


Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Walwyn    says:

Sorry, misread something and a got a bit redundant.

Well I took out a couple of words anyway.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

matt    says:

Jake, I'd tend to agree if it had just sort of slipped by without being considered. But if it was in the design from the beginning, it seems plausible to me that just fixing it would be less time and trouble for everyone than pulling the whole feature. Hopefully it's just someone using an 'or' in a bit of logic where they should have an 'and' or something.

And thanks, Walwyn, my paranoia is assuaged. ;-)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

matt    says:

robert: try the feature out, it's a lot more than just a copy-and-past of the URL. It includes the appropriate credit and licensing information for the image, for one thing, which is a pretty big step up from a bare URL.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

♥ shhexycorin ♥    says:

It would be nice to be able to choose which size photo you want to embed - for your own photos and others'
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

jakerome    says:

Well, since the people most likely to have their email addresses snooped are Flickr staff, they should really fix this for their own selfish reasons.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

zyrcster    says:

I'd prefer to see Embed divorced from the Download setting, for the reason Jake mentions. Or for it to have it's own setting: Embed.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

* taltal    says:

I like this, but again - no way to share a collection :(

annoying.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

r_r_r_r_robert    says:

@matt
Hopeful...
I am hoping to come round to admitting that I suffered a knee-jerk reaction.
But, I'm not totally there yet.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

♥ shhexycorin ♥    says:

On the "Share this photo" page ( when I click "add your own message") I need to press tab 5 times in order to get to the Send button. That's pretty rubbish!
:)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

COOP666    says:

I'm now completely unable to ask for a guest pass URL, or do anything at all with the "share this" feature. The links are broken.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

jakerome    says:

Thanks kellan. Appreciate the quick response.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Walwyn    says:

@kellan

Thanks
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

zyrcster    says:

kellan It's not returning all email addresses when I type a letter or two anymore, but it is returning a contact's email when I type her screen name.

She has email set to hidden from her profile and I never knew her email address until just now. So, this isn't working as expected from my PoV. Shouldn't it just not return the email address at all, unless the email is visible in the profile?

Or can I just expect that now everyone who is a contact will now know my email address from typing my screen name into that field?

Also, the video thing? Is that how it's supposed to work (visible to all), or is it supposed to work like the photos (embed set to download setting).
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Walwyn    says:

@zyrcster

Are you sure? Its not doing that when I enter the screen name of an account I know has the email set to 'only you'.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

matt    says:

Kellan: mixed bag here. From my test account, I can no longer see the address for this account, but I can still see Kevin's address (which isn't visible on his profile). In fact, Kevin's address shows up twice now. Is that a result of having sent him an email with the system, maybe?

(The browser's autofill is completely off.)

Thanks from me for the quick response as well.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

BigBean    says:

kellan
the email auto-complete seems to be working fine, now.

I've only checked 5 contacts, but the email addresses only show from people who also have them available on the profile.

Thanks.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

BigBean    says:

matt the system is remembering a non-flickr address I typed in earlier to test.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

zyrcster    says:

Well, I tried it again just now, and now it's not returning the email address. So, can't explain what I saw earlier, but it's working from here as expected.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

COOP666    says:

Okay, no response, i guess i'll just chalk this up to more censorship and handicapping of a service that I pay for.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

matt    says:

BigBean: thought it might be that, but when I manually enter an address, it isn't remembered (unless that was affected by the change as well).
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Lú_    says:

matt - I know on one computer that happens for me and on another it doesn't, because I told Firefox not to remember things I enter in fields.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

GustavoG    says:

Three things:

1) Is the list of suggestions supposed to be scrollable? From here it's trimmed to just the first few, no scrolling to the rest.

2) It would be nice if non-default user URLs were included too in the suggestions. Some are much easier to type than the user names... which may contain weird characters.

3) Where's the protest group against this new feature?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

jakerome    says:

Oh not another protest so soon! I don't have the energy.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

matt    says:

Lú_: I've got auto-fill turned off on the browser I'm testing with. It's definitely Flickr suggesting kevin's email.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

matt    says:

3) Where's the protest group against this new feature?

A little bit of searching turned up this one.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Todd Kravos    says:

Why can't I select "Contacts" AND "Friends" within the privacy setting for this new option? Those radio butons should be checkboxes, IMHO
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

matt    says:

Todd: 'Contacts' includes 'Friends' by definition, also 'Family'.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Todd Kravos    says:

That indication should be clearly made on these pages then.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Lú_    says:

Nice one, matt.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

kqedquest    says:

Nice feature to be sure - but I was hopeful that sharing would be trackable in Your Stats, in a manner similar to ShareThis.com (not a plug, just an observation).

Any thought given to letting users know which items are the most shared?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

r_r_r_r_robert    says:

Instead of "Slideshow" "Share this" how about "Share this slideshow"?

That would give the dimwits something they really struggle with.
Oh God I'm being sucked in....
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

treebjen    says:

Ha. Congratulations yal on finally releasing this. ;-)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

ColleenM    says:

The four year old I was just with thinks this is AWESOME. So do I.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Åsta    says:

Is this why I got a few mails with "look at my stream" showing pictures? I got these both on Flickr and in my private mail box - from persons I don't know - and I should only get a copy on my private mail box from my contacts! Hmmm, I don't want to be a party poop here, but I see spam coming my way... :-o
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )
Åsta edited this topic 15 months ago.

RubyMae    says:

Perhaps I'm being dense, but I read the FAQ and this thread and I'm still confused (as I always am by a new feature). If I have downloads restricted to just friends and family, but choose to allow all contacts to "share" does that allow all my contacts access to all sizes - or only to the medium sized image on the photo page?

(As an aside, I'm fairly computer literate, although no genius, but this site is starting to lose it's simplicity and is becoming a bit of a beast to find one's way around...)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

jakerome    says:

Another request to let us share our photos. I desperately love Flickr, and upload the highest resolution of everything I have because of your great editing tools, sharing tools, archiving tools and so forth. I want the world to see my pictures, small, medium & large-- just not the originals (necessarily). Right now, we have 2 options:

1) Let anyone see all sizes of our photos, embed those photos, copy & paste those photos, etc.

OR

2) Let no one (besides contacts): see the large or original size, embed those photos, or copy those photos.

Judging by the number of responses in the Flickr Ideas thread, there is overwhelming support for letting us hide only the originals and letting Flickr users (and the rest of the internet) share our photos in any way imaginable. Please introduce this option. Not having that capability makes me very sad.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

jakerome    says:

At a minimum, let the "Share This" button include the embed options & override the other settings. Those are only medium size images.

I hate the spaceball.gif.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

zyrcster    says:

. nevermind - misunderstood the question.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

zyrcster    says:

RubyMae If I have downloads restricted to just friends and family, but choose to allow all contacts to "share" does that allow all my contacts access to all sizes - or only to the medium sized image on the photo page?

If you have downloads restricted, but enable Share This for all contacts, then the Share This button will appear on your pages for all contacts only (not for all Flickr users) but the Embed link will not appear. They will only have access to sending the url to the photo page to someone.

I deleted my earlier response since I mis-read the question.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

jakerome    says:

Yes, I understand that. I would prefer that the "embed this" option was still available. Even better, Flickr could introduce a "hide original size?" option to go along with the "who can download my photos?" option.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

RubyMae    says:

We know you understand that - that's why zyrcster prefaced her answer with "RubyMae." I'm the one that is confused.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

RubyMae    says:

Thanks. That's what I thought. (And it's fine with me.)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

myjuditz ( in Tunisia )    says:

And if I don't want to share my photos by e mail AT ALL ?
Anyone can come, pick a photo or more and send them to his/her friends in a few seconds -
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Lú_    says:

myjuditz wrote

And if I don't want to share my photos by e mail AT ALL ?
Anyone can come, pick a photo or more and send them to his/her friends in a few seconds -

myjuditz ( in Tunisia )    says:

I just copied an image from a contact, using "embed this".
I am in awe.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

van swearingen    says:

So, when I click on the Share This button on the home page of someone else's photostream and select "Grab the URL", it tells me that, "Here's a link to your photostream."
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

myjuditz ( in Tunisia )    says:

I already changed my settings, but it is pointless, as long as "embed this" allow anyone to access the URL.
Lú - any solution for this?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Lú_    says:

myjuditz - I don't see any "Share this" options on your photos, including the "embed this" option.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

zyrcster    says:

myjuditz No one can access the Share This link on your stream anymore to even get to the "embed this" link. You can still see it, but I just tried and I can't -- Share This isn't on your pages at all. So, I'm not sure what you're concerned about?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

myjuditz ( in Tunisia )    says:

zyrcster - thank you for such a good news, but here it is what Flickr states in my settings ;
"This setting lets you hide the “Share this” button on your public photos or videos. Please note that if you choose to hide this button, people will still be able to share your public uploads by copying and pasting its URL."

What do you understand from this?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Chrisser    says:

I had just set my permissions for sharing to My Contacts (which, I am guessing right, is overridden since I post to groups), and there isn't the option to do a Batch Organize for photos I've uploaded before making the change, unless the change I made is for all photos I have uploaded.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

hrw worcester    says:

myjuditz Your photostream is: www.flickr.com/photos/91497599@N00/

What that comment in your settings means is anyone can do what I just did - go to your photostream and get the URL from the web browser and send that to someone else manually (or to an individual photo page, or set page, etc.). It's nothing new, it's how a web browser works. ;-)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

*Sally M*    says:

This feature is not working for me in firefox 2.0.0.14.

The "share this" link gives me the share this photo ; grab this link; etc. box but nothing happens when I click on anything.

It worked in I.E 7.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

zyrcster    says:

Chrisser The change is global, for all photos.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

zyrcster    says:

*Sally M* Try clearing your cache: ctrl-F5
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

myjuditz ( in Tunisia )    says:

Thank you, this is a link to my photos, not sharing each photo by " embed this " it is a bit different, isn't it ?
And if someone copy and paste my photos, it won't be in the original size.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

zyrcster    says:

myjuditz The Share This link contains a few different things. It contains a link to your photo page, which is exactly what one would get if they visited your photo page and copied the url out of the browser's address bar.

It also has an Embed code *if* you have your download settings available. So, if someone can see All Sizes and you have Share This enabled, then the Embed code will appear.

It also has a Blog This link *if* you have blogging enabled.

Why don't you visit my stream and click through this photo of mine and click Share This?
www.flickr.com/photos/zyrc/2427917001/

You should only see the email and the link. This provides nothing more than you would get if you just looked in your browser's address bar.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

*Sally M*    says:

@zyrcster

Clearing the cache did not help.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

stealthflower    says:

: Thanks for the sample link - I just had fun trying it out and reassuring myself that no-one was going to steal my precious, precious photos if I had 'Share This' enabled.

And pretty puppy!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

neiloneiloneil    says:

This is handy, nice one flickr!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Sparticus    says:

I like it, but it does add a bit to the clutter, and does duplicate a whole bunch of other stuff above the photos, as a vague suggestion, I'd trim the ones above the photo and put them all into the share this button. Or something.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )