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What happened to millions of Creative Commons-licensed photos in Flickr? (bryanalexander.org)
21 points by doctornemo on April 6, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Slightly OT, but I overheard a few developers discussing online photo services and one of them, a 20yr-old, asked "what's Flicker?"

I knew Flickr had lost a lot of mindshare, but I didn't realize the situation was that bad.


"a 20yr-old, asked 'what's Flicker?'" Wow.



That's what they tweeted at me. So, good news: the CC-licensed photos are still there. Not so good news: the bug was there for 5 days w/o being noticed or fixed.


It's a bug, which appeared around April 1. Fixed now.




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