Andy Rodker

Do you have auto encoding turned on in the browser? That might be the problem.... There's nothing off with the site itself.

Anyway, nice scene and capture! Neat how it's clearly raining in the distance which sunny in the foreground...

Thanks Fizgig I don't know about auto encoding in the browser. I will find out. But today it's all in Mandarin!
(Only kidding - it's in English!)
Yes, it rained hard for a few minutes and the cloud rushed seawards!

LOL! In case you ever check the "popular photos", take care not to get left of the block with the cursor and twitch your fingers. Happened once to me too -- only that I turned all to Basque, which was no big help either.

Nice shot!

I guess the thing is simply run full. We have been perhaps given an user number with a digit to much or something like this, or our pics should show up sometimes. I am well aware Andy, we and the others from Ipernity that stayed got the busiest threads and the most stars. I never cared much to make "Explore"on either Flickr or Ipernity personally, as it just opens me up to more rogue advertising below shots and activity by people blatantly not caring what I do at all, with exception of giving them little stars at the side....

But drab and boring? Well, they are all by people who are members for a very long time, and most of those are no active social users with popular content as we are used to be the only ones making it into the select few best pics.
Some of the old members are really nice folks. Their stuff is sometimes not really pretty and decorative subjects meant to just share the most beautiful and the funniest sights and brighten everyones day, but more like social commentary or experimental with the camera medium. On other services I had many contacts like that, they can be very interesting, but they where not the ones you meet by looking at "Explore" traffic of course like it is here....

Sonja, Yes, I suppose I commented without much thought. I didn't know Flickr had a similar 'explore' feature. I must say on ipernity (still my main site) I have never been plagued by spam - maybe twice in total and nothing since the site was cleared of spam my Pam G, who you may remember. As for my comments 'drab and boring', I had forgotten the origin of the site as a photo-sharing community between a small number of friends where the photo sharing is a side-issue to something else (again, I forget what!). I imagine they feel proprietorial about their site and so keep things pretty much as they like and are used to! Since it is a free site, who are we to argue!! I may still have misunderstood things but anyway, thank you for reminding me of things I had forgotten since I joined.
I wish you all the very best for Christmas and The New Year

Stunning shot!