Solutions
December 18th, 2006
Hey, I know the rss feed is bad news. However, for every problem there’s a solution. I don’t care that much for the people that grew up thinking they can do whatever they please. Life handles that on its own.
I care that the work these photographers do isn’t displayed in any other site I can’t control. Seems people find republishing the feed is a quick dirty way to make some money? And that can harm the image of the site. It’s a shame that people are abusive.
But anyway, here’s the possible solutions:
I’ll check if there’s a way to ban ips from getting the rss (i’d need to move the feedburner feed back to this site, which probably means, as usual, more bandwith and all that).
Provide the rss feed with just the image code, and a firefox plugin that would translate that to an image again. Of course that will force you guys to use firefox, which isn’t a bad option either.
I had a half baked firefox plugin that would put the latest photos in the browser sidebar. Specifically, this page: http://flickrbabes.com/sidepanel.php I guess I could continue development of that and publish it one of these days.
I was once developing a module for netvibes, so netvibes users could also keep enjoying the flickrbabes there.
Finally, I guess it’s not the end of the world. The site is still here, and you can always come and visit 
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14 Comments Add your own
1. Jim Williams | December 18th, 2006
Love your site, and it’s too bad about the RSS feed. I just wanted to say that I’m an avid NetVibes reader, and I would love to see a module made of your site’s live content. If you need any help in developing one, feel free to drop me an email.
2. ky | December 18th, 2006
i hope you can get the RSS feeds back up soon.
3. Ben Northern | December 18th, 2006
Thanks for the hard work!
4. Ronald Poi | December 18th, 2006
I use Safari so none of the Firefox solutions would work for me. Still, i respect your work and dedication, so it’s up to you to decide what to do with your site… i’ll be here anyway…
I like the block IPs idea but i don’t know if it’s possible…
5. zmonteca | December 18th, 2006
All I have to say, is how annoying people are that they can’t just be compliant. Steeling other people’s works for profit is such a tragedy. In my mind, you should do whatever it takes to disallow those other sites from pirating your labors and other photographers.
6. zmonteca | December 18th, 2006
You can definitely block ip’s if you have a lot of control over you hosted environment. That’s definitely a pretty seamless route.
7. anon | December 18th, 2006
How about for a preliminary solution you use those little squares of the pictures for the RSS? That’ll give you control over people recycling content because they’ll have to fetch the big ones themselves.
8. Noonecares | December 18th, 2006
Just to drop a line to cheer u up! GREAT site, GREAT photos…
just 2 points of interest:
1. If the photographs are SOOOO mad about their work… DONT POST IT ONLINE suckers… thats the main reason the WEB IS WWW, cause its so damn legimit to use the things that you found in every damn page to use it, PERSONAL non COMERCIAL, and thats a fact. So stop the crying buuu! buuu! I PAID FOR THE MODELS TO POSE!!! excelent! KEEP THE PHOTOS IN YOUR COMPUTER! no need to everybody in the world to look at it… so, if you use any web to upload your work, keep in mind that at least your photos will be seen at least for some admin, i mean… cmon… think a little!
2. Dont stop your work, its a beatiful and some of the most spen-time-here site i have never know, keep up the good work, some people really come here almost every day [i do, really] just to keep their collection growing THEIR PERSONAL COLLECTION, those that sells a dvd with 3000000 beatiful images are just scam, but… some of us LIKE the photos and keep that under a lock cause as the artists keep working hard for they photos, we lost bandwith, time, and several clicks of a mouse to save all that beatiful shots. So some of us does not just give that away…
Just some lines… hope you catch the idea.
Sorry for my english, not very very good at all, but i fell that the idea has been showed
Seeya!
9. joe | December 18th, 2006
damn this site sucks w/out rss…
10. Houser | December 18th, 2006
Hey man… keep on doin’ what your doin’
Thoughts:
Make people register for the RSS feed. Once they register, you provide them with a URL, with an appended access key (unique ID). I know, I know, then fucktards, like Daniel, can just register for the feed, but then you can track the IP the feed is being served to and “poof” turn it off when you find abuse of your feed. Moreover, you can deny IPs from registration if you find sperm-dribbles, like Daniel, continuing to re-register for new feeds. I’m not that familiar with WordPress, but I’d be more than happy to lend a hand for you (even though I’m a daily visitor, not an RSS consumer).
And yes, I realize my remarks about Daniel seem to be lowering me to his level. I’m really not, but I figure if he’s reading, at least I can put it in terms he can understand
11. ro | December 18th, 2006
this ideas would not stop somebody to steal the links, trust me, anybody can do it scraping the site, whatever inconvenience for us you’ll think about.
And this remind me something: A big Richmond company linked to a blog displaying a picture from it. When the owner found out he replaced the picture with another one. You get the idea?
Actually you can profit from this…
12. Monkey | December 20th, 2006
TXH for sidebar. For me it’s better solution than rss feed.
And with Opera you can add a sidebar page by default.
http://www.opera.com
Of course Firefox is cool too.
13. David Alvarez | December 28th, 2006
i vote for the forcing of firefox
14. daromar | January 2nd, 2007
is it possible to have next/previus page links on sidebar?
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