Ooops, Flickr... now we got a problem.

[susandennis]

I just saw on Flickr, that they are no longer going to connect to LJ as of March 25. They have, for years now, had a lovely, quite functional, LJ button. They are not only ditching that, but also their precoded URLs that LJ will accommodate. The iframe and other coded URLS that they now offer, will not work in LJ.

The End Of An Era.

Every photo I take with my phone gets instantly uploaded to Google and to Flickr. It has been way more difficult to get photos into LJ from Google but they recently made it a bit easier. And they auto-fix them.

This first photo today, I have to go to Download/all sizes>pick my size>right mouse click on the photo and select Copy URL then open up a new LJ Entry and select add image and plug in the URL.




To add this one, in Google pictures, I right click on the photo, get the URL and then do like above. This are fewer steps and places to go and I'm always in Google anyway and since Flickr doesn't work with LJ any more there is really no reason to go there.



I think Google just won.  Bye Bye, Yahoo and Flickr.  It was nice while it lasted.  And, no, I'm not interested in just being friends.

Comments

[kayre]

I'm not sure what you mean by Google pictures... searching for that takes me to Picasa?

[susandennis]

Picasa Web is one way to get there but their online function is now embedded in Google Plus

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

SHIT!!

[susandennis]

yes

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Can you please share where you saw the announcement? I can't find it.

[susandennis]

Sure! I got it when I clicked on the LJ icon under 'share'.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I don't currently have an issue using their html or iframe options and can't imagine that would change. Of course neither of those is what I want.

[susandennis]

iframes works for you in an lj entry?

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Yup! Paste into here:

[susandennis]

Well... duh! I would have never thought to look there! Thank you!!!

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

No problemo!

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

I use both Photobucket, and LJ for images now, though lately, it's been LJ.

Though to do Photobucket photos, there is a tag that works with LJ as one of the several options available.

Speaking of, I need to reup for a paid subscription to PB.

Hello and Oh!

[fifona.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I popped by to visit your site. Photos have been a problem for me & some at my apple store made me think Flickr had it sussed. I did not think they would ditch LJ, SO many LJ people use Flickr. Their loss, perhaps

Re: Hello and Oh!

[susandennis]

Yeah, I had been watching Flickr's new features and they have been ignoring LJ (and a couple of other similar sites) so it wasn't a huge surprise. But, no less a giant disappointment.

And... hi!! I found you on my friends of friends page.