Comments on: Less Flickr views, anyone?

By: Vint Falken

Vint Falken — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:53:48 +0000

Mike, thank you for - besides complaining - also explaining to me what the correct use is. In Dutch we have only one word that means both ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, undependable on which ‘brand’ of word you combine it with. Hence the mistake. Still, if that is the only thing you have to comment upon, I assume the rest of the post was a great read? *grins*

By: Mike Cash

Mike Cash — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:18:00 +0000

Learning the difference between “less” and “fewer” would be nice….

By: October Hush

October Hush — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:43:23 +0000

I’ve been posting a lot more photos lately, so I figured I was just getting my views distributed amongst more photos. *shrugs*

By: Myg

Myg — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:11:54 +0000

*waves* I noticed it too and was wondering the same things…just to say is all.

By: loki

loki — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:20:16 +0000

What’s the big hangup with picture views? Ok, it’s nice if a lot of people get to see your work, but I’ll trade 500 views for a single comment… Views only tell me the thumbnail got people curious, not what they think about it and that’s what I’m interested in.

Come to think of it … I don’t have a single pic with 500 views :-)

By: CodeBastard Redgrave

CodeBastard Redgrave — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:54:42 +0000

Melissa you should NOT use screenshot. Use CGI/Illustration/Other. Screenshots are for showing off your Vista machine crashing, not for computer art. No wonder your count view may be down, nobody searches for screenshots.

I witnessed a small drop in views too but not that noticable. The counter is still going strong. It goes by waves of course, days I post something I can get more than 1000 hits in the same day.

Personnally I hope it’s the later because I noticed a very strong discrepancy between the global View count and the actual View count on all pictures. I remember when I reached my 25K, at the same moment I posted a couple pictures that busted over 1500 Views in the day. But the counter only reported 1000. But if they reajusted it, the global Views should increase, not decrease.

Flickr lacks decent statistics, it is well known. I’m thinking very seriously to make a Flickr stats engine that would check every picture in a stream one shot, and count the views on every picture and do the total. I think I would be surprised on how much view you get on individual pictures versus the global counter. I’m thinking of doing an incremental system that checks every day and let you view your progression. But it’s still a project, and I have so much already ^^

By: Melissa Yeuxdoux

Melissa Yeuxdoux — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:37:11 +0000

I think it’s the classification; for me, the plummet in view count happened when I set up the “screenshot” classification for my pictures.

By: Timothy Lilliehook

Timothy Lilliehook — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:41:16 +0000

I can confirm that feeling of getting less views, too. A couple of weeks ago I had pics going up to 100 views in a very short time, now they hardly get there at all. Maybe my shots got worse instead of better, maybe it’s Flickr, maybe I shouldn’t have urged my friends to create own Flickr accounts and post their own pics that may disctract people from mine ;)

By: Looker Lumet

Looker Lumet — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:08:12 +0000

Vint, your first and last point, that you commented, could be the reason, but not the other ones, because I only “suffer” from it since last weekend.
Something must have changed at Flickr, it is the only reason I could think off. I am not talking about comments, but only views.
The eventually less comments are a result of less commenting other pictures, as you said, I think.