Flickr RSS Weirdness
For some reason, my RSS feeds for Flickr photos are picking up pics posted by complete strangers. Every single Flickr feed to an individual person’s page has at least 10 random pictures that were not uploaded by the person I’ve RSSed, and that don’t show up on the individual’s proper Flickr page. (Actually, the mystery photos may not be entirely random — roblesliecarter, chemeriz, and Pat Neary seem to crop up in most, if not all, the feeds.) Feeds for group pools don’t seem to be affected.
WTF? Anybody else noticed this happening? Is it Bloglines going berserk, or Flickr, or what?
Update: Flickr is aware that this happened, and is either trying to fix it or already has fixed it. See here, if you wish to see the whole account. Nothing posted yet on the Flickr blog, but they’ll probably post something there or in the news blurbs soonish.
Same thing is happening to me with the same people’s photos. Maybe Flickr was hacked?
January 28th, 2006 | #
Dunno if someone hacked Flickr or if it was just a system burp. At least it seems to have been sorted out with expediency. :) Good old Flickr.
January 28th, 2006 | #