Flickr Exile

hi

hello kerry!

J, its funny that I can see your icon with IE or Safari but not with Firefox. Same happens to my own icon. Seems to be a 23hq bug?

Hi all

Aah, familiar faces gathering here? Good to see the community growing :)

Thanks Karuloom, still finding my feet as it were.
My Flickr account runs till January 09 so I have plenty of time to make up my mind what to do....I guess time will tell whether 23 is up to it Cangia

There seems to be no viewcount on pictures. Thats about the only thing I miss.

Well Kaur, There is a view count: see "your photo's" and sort them by 'view'.

@kiri, I had this problem too, but it was mine; try forcing page refresh or emptying cache.

@J_Images, Thanks!

I'm having problems changing my profile picture, is anyone else having this problem too?

Anyone an idea what the deal is with th e'photo ranking'? What are the parameters?

If you want this site to work as an alternative to flickr you really have to breathe some life into it. I have my issues with flickr but I'm still there. I'm on other sites to show support for people who really can't abide by flickr but its up to them to keep those communities alive.

I'm glad photographers are finding other alternatives to the big box sites.

karl, you have an amazing portfolio.

You're right markuss5, so "Welcome to 23hq!"

hi folks, made this account when all that flickr censorship shit started, but didn't actually use it as long as my pro account could still cause them some traffic.
I really think, this site is nice. for sure, the infrastructe ain't the same as on flickr, but well, thats fine with me. but what you simply can't deny is that there is surely something like "quality" on flickr, which still lacks here. I'm quite busy watching for new uploads here, but 23 seems more like family and party snaps. maybe it's only the variety of images on flickr, which grants a certain degree of quality..
don't get me wrong, I surely don't consider myself a pro-photographer, but for me there are still some reason to keep my flickr-account.. with us-american yahoo-id of course, meanwhile I'm waiting for some broader scale of images here.
greetings to all ya..

If you are still concerned about the original censorship issue and you still have your flickr account you could keep this thread alive :
http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/43626/
They lock them after 30 days without activity.

Fabian, I stil don't know...

@ fabian f.

well i think the fact that 23 isn't censoring as much as flickr makes it a little "better".

well, if I want to, I can still see naked people doing strange stuff on flickr. I also never had problems, posting comments on flickr, but for some reason I always have to type that captcha stuff, when I post somewhere on 23 (even as a logged-in user beneath my own photos..) nevertheless, once in a while I get strange spam messages, so what..
If anybody of you has ever seen any explicitly sexual content, please gimme a note, cause I'd really like to see it. not for my personal pleasure, but just for knowing that it's there.
for those of you who haven't read the term of use: "You are not allowed to post content of an explicitly sexual nature to 23. Such content will be removed without notice." --> http://www.23hq.com/23/terms
prohibitting of course is much better than restricting access.
don't get me wrong, I really do like 23. I like it for beeing rather small (and yes, there are damn good photographers on flickr), I like it for it's upload policy (not being restricted to 200 photos unless you pay, although I don't use this amount), I like it for the atmosphere.
But we ought not sit here and feel as if we were in a free environment, where everybody is free to post and tell, whereas flickr is the hell of censorship. that's simply phony.

I don't like the censorship of flickr [if one idiot flags one of your pics your hole account is moderated] but i do like all the comments you're getting there.
Here at 23 i see only few comments; it seems members here are non-responsive or something; on flickr most of the time when i make a comment people react back; here they don't...

I think I expressed this more than once, in general I completely agree with markx (and with magullo's explaination as well..)
flickr was and still is somewhat more vivid, there seems to be a larger interest in photos in general. people seem to stalk around through all the photos, comment on other people's shots (and not only with "fancy", "cool", "great" and "nice") and yep, those themselves reacted, not only with "thanks" but with a little further explaination, they themselves having a look on the commenter's shots. So it was a lot more than a community, bound by a common interest in photography. Don't get me wrong, there certainly is some good photography on 23, but it widely seems to me like a platform for simply hosting images shown on blogs (I love all thos crumpy photos of blurred dishes shown here..) or some family-party stuff. 23 simply ain't that much about photography. that it's not only about simply beeing smaller you can see on ipernity. they also began after censorship was introduced on flickr, they are also much smaller, but in fact, they are a lot more vivid, even more a photographic community.

@Fabian, you're right.
And, I daresay, it's a shame. 23 needs activity as much as good photos. It lacks "interest" being like this.

Hey guys -- I'm always a bit reluctant to post in the Flickr Exile group with the official Team 23 title next to my name, but I thought I'd write a few lines.

I love that you're craving community -- and I'm certianly hoping that there's nothing techinically standing in your way when you want to build community on 23. If that's the case be sure to let us know. We really do want you guys to feel at home amongst yourselves ;-)

Also, I want interested in the comment about 23 being used differently than flickr. Obviously I don't know anything about flickr's numbers, but I see a lot of photos being shared privately and in closed circles through 23. This focus might have been caused by our attempts to be more geared towards family sharing, but is might be an obstacle to community building. However, the degree of private sharing certainly doesn't preclude 23 from also having a vibrant community.

So, the statement of lacking activity in the title of this thread is a bit uninteresting -- it's much more interesting what we/you as a community can do to improve it? (And implicitly, how the staff at 23 can help you along?)

some thoughts:
-bring more interaction to 23: you only get an E-Mail or notification when someone comment your photo, expand this feature if somebody favorite, twitter, blog, post to facebook... (because I don't comment a lot, but fave a lot)


-bring more People to 23

the pros of 23 that other photosharing sites don't offer:
- all you photos remain online/public if you stop be a "pro" "plus" or ... not just the last 200
- you can comment all photos without a registration
- you can style your photo as you like via css

steffen dont be reluctant to post....i find the best social sites are the ones with an active participation by the powers that be.
Yes more publicity.......
yes make it more user friendly i only seem to subscribe as a reaction to someone who has subscribed me.... what is a contact/subscriber?
what is sexually explicit...one man meat is another man's poison.....i am not talking porn..but nude and erotic.....
actually this is the most activity i have ever seen on 23hq, so it is obviously a bone of contention....

@ steffen
interesting that this is the biggest group.....and you are very welcome. I like your suggestions...
re erotica, i would not post alongside my present stream...i am a university professor and many of my students look at this site and i do have a reputation to think about!!..... maybe i could open another stream using a nom de plume for my more creative works.........

and it is a nice picture, great colours... welcome to 23hq

more trouble in the flickr help forum paradise. This time over ads on paid accounts.

Been a while since the last post.