Posting Flickr photos - an update

[Padma]

Flickr has made it a lot more fiddly to link directly to photos these days. They've provided a way to do this, but they want you to include title/owner and Flickr's name:

Click on the Share dropdown above the image - then choose Grab the HTML/BBCode, pick the BBCode button, and copy the code from there (you get to choose which image size to show) - drop that in your topic post and it shows like this:


park gate poetry by womandrogyne, on Flickr

If you don't want to show your user/title data, you can delete everything from that paste except the part near the beginning from [ img ] to [ /img ] (without the spaces) and you'll just see the photo.

[eshaver]

I wish these photo sites would just settle on one standardized an simple way to do things . They're constantly changing the formats , ie Photobucket !ellen

[Annah]

i can certainly understand why flickr is doing this.

Through this method (at least in theory) you have the owner's info at the bottom. If every site did this and made it non edited that would be awesome.

Two years ago, I had a stalker used my pics and then pretended to be a Psychiatrist. Pretty messed up stuff and I had to get the police involved because this guy started to contact my Seminary.

So I applaud this new step

[Padma]

I think editable is important, since Flickr also needs to protect the rights of the photograph owners not to give away details about themselves - they might not, for example, want others to know what their Flickr ID is, just in order to show an individual photo.

The grey area is in between people posting their own photos and people posting others' photos.