Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/06/28

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Subject: [Leica] flickr: non-members can't see photos?
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:44:04 -0700
References: <53AF6E8F.5010703@threshinc.com>

I'm not eneitrely sure, but I think Flickr may be changing their policy and
disabling sharing of Flickr photos to people with no flickr accounts...


On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:

> Doug, thanks, I think you may have the answer.  flickr likes you to have
> the most current browser versions, because it is constantly messing with
> its user interface. At my old workplace we had to use Internet Explorer 8
> for all company stuff. flickr stopped working when they "improved" their
> user interface the first time. Luckily I could also use Chrome, which did
> work.
>
> It's possible that the people having issues with flickr are using older
> versions of their browser.  It's also possible that their email client is
> not dealing with the embedded at-sign in flickr links (which is dumb, but
> it's how they do things).  The links can be mangled because they are
> misinterpreted as email addresses, or truncated for security reasons.
>
> The browser world is getting more Babel-ish lately. I noticed that
> Javascript and Java things (like picture links on Rangefinderforum, or the
> Upload Applet at gallery.leica-users.org are breaking now. Sometimes
> specifically enabling Java(script) for a particular site or "zone" restores
> the function, and sometimes not. Life in the 21st century.
>
> --Peter
>
>
> Peter Klein wrote:
>
> > >Recently several people have told me that they can't view my photos on
> > >flickr, and instead get a sign-on page.
> >
> > Doug Herr wrote:
> >
> > These both fork for me (Safari).  Flicker doesn't work at all with older
> > versions of IE (the XP computer at the office).
> >
> > Doug Herr
> > Birdman of Sacramento
> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> >
>
>
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