Flickr has blocked Flickrbabes
December 22nd, 2008
Hello guys and girls, as you’ve noticed, this site isn’t displaying images anymore. For some unknown reason, flickr is now blocking flickrbabes.com from displaying their images. This has happened in the past (about 3 years ago), and it got solved easily by complying with some conditions set by the Flickr team. The site has been running fine since then, until a couple of days ago, when it got blocked again, without any apparent issue.
I’ve contacted Flickr Support, but still haven’t got an answer (only the typical automated emails telling me how they care about my issue and that I will soon get an answer). I hope they can provide an answer as to why this site got blocked, and hopefully there’s a nice solution.
Until then, you can only wait.
Entry Filed under: flickrbabes
16 Comments Add your own
1. Roland | December 22nd, 2008
thanks for everything.
2. Quick | December 22nd, 2008
Not that you need to know but the pics do still come up if you’re using the RSS feed
3. J.Ma | December 22nd, 2008
This site was completely down temporararily. I’m afraid flickr has something to argue about pornographic contents. Certainly that’s not true.
4. fyngyrz | December 22nd, 2008
You’re using their bandwidth; they’re trying to reduce costs; odds are, these two things have come into conflict in some executive’s head.
Note that Yahoo (who owns Flickr) has just dumped some of the top Flickr talent, and has been under significant financial pressure because of a number of other factors that range from dealings (or lack thereof) with Microsoft, the decision to abandon the original tree / user supplied site design that made Yahoo a worthy site on day one, and mismanagement within flickr (censorship, broken features, missing features, etc.)
I hope they unblock; but if not, though I know it’s worth nothing, I just want to say that I appreciated your efforts.
5. Homer | December 22nd, 2008
Bandwith, baloney. The key to successful web presence is linkage. There are three words that apply: Promotion, Promotion, Promotion. Back in the day it was called penny wise and pound foolish. If they don’t want their bandwith used, they would be best not to provide the link code.
Maybe after some consideration the support team will come to their senses. It is impossible to police the web, and having visitors to your site is what it is all about, Isn’t it?
6. karl | December 23rd, 2008
Thats a shame, and i dont think its because of bandwidth, we are talkin about Flickr who has millions of photos uploaded daily. I rather think its because of copyrights or a new scheme of security/advertising/naming for image links.
7. Curious | December 24th, 2008
Sorry for the bad news, hopefully it comes back up
Were you blogging photos that did not have the ‘blog this’ feauture enabled and thus were not supposed to be blogged ?
What was the reason during the first block on the past please ?
thanks
8. dan | December 31st, 2008
That’s quite lame :/
9. foggy | January 15th, 2009
wait until they reply and we will know what happened (or what they want us think that happened)
, so sad when flickrbabes down T.T
10. verdecores | January 15th, 2009
Hi
Flick blocks all when you have too much views and members,
Flickr is shit!!!!!
11. mike | January 16th, 2009
the best picks of the web
12. Calvin Wallace | January 25th, 2009
“Bandwith, baloney. The key to successful web presence is linkage. There are three words that apply: Promotion, Promotion, Promotion. Back in the day it was called penny wise and pound foolish. If they don’t want their bandwith used, they would be best not to provide the link code.
Maybe after some consideration the support team will come to their senses. It is impossible to police the web, and having visitors to your site is what it is all about, Isn’t it?”
Seconded!!!
13. coder | January 28th, 2009
Any news yet?
14. Bob | January 29th, 2009
an innocent daily little bit of inspiration by the most incredibly talenterd people just dumped by who knows who. I think these artists deserve an apology.
15. Sr Perez | February 4th, 2009
It’s been more than a month. Not a word from Flickr? It’s a shame. Such a tasteful site…
16. mike | February 6th, 2009
flickr has TWICE deleted my account for posing non flickr pics. they suck.
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